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A's Moving To KTRB/860

BossRadioDJ

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From this morning's Contra Costa Times:

The Oakland Athletics and KTRB Radio 860 AM have agreed to terms on a one-year contract for the station to serve as flagship of the A's Radio Network for the upcoming 2009 season.

KTRB, a San Francisco-based station featuring a daily talk format, will broadcast all 162 regular season games, plus 17 spring training games. The station's first broadcast is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 28 when Oakland hosts the Cleveland Indians in a 1 p.m. (noon PST) exhibition game at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.

Complete story at http://www.contracostatimes.com/athletics/ci_11371891
 
This is part of KTRB's expanding sports schedule, as evidenced by the following press release from Jim Pappas:

Sports Byline USA, “America’s Sports Talk Show” and the first sports talk radio network in the country, will expand its relationship with KTRB 860 AM on Monday, January 5th, 2009. The network, which is headquartered in San Francisco, launched in October 1988 with KSFO Radio as one of its original 12 affiliates.

Veteran sportscaster Ron Barr is the founder of the Sports Byline USA network. He also hosts the network’s flagship program, “Sports Byline USA,” Monday through Friday, 7pm to 10pm PT. In returning to a bay area broadcast home, Barr says, “It’s always nice to come home. I think the over 40 hours a week of Sports Byline programming on KTRB will give Bay Area sports fans the kind of choice they haven’t had here in several years.”

In addition to Barr’s Sports Byline USA program on KTRB 860 AM, listeners will also hear Sports Overnight America, 10pm to 1am, PT, Monday through Friday with Chris Townsend and weekends with Patrick Mauro. Townsend and Mauro are also familiar names to Bay Area listeners with long ties to the area and local broadcast outlets.

KTRB will also continue to air Ron Barr’s Sports Legends, a popular weekly show added in 2007.
 
This makes KTRB, what, the 13th A's flagship since moving here in 1968?

Drumroll, please: KNBR (twice), KEST, KEEN, KALX (for just a month, but still ...), KXRX, KSFO, KNEW, KABL, KFRC-AM, KYOU, KFRC-FM and now KTRB, where rumor has had them for a few years.
 
SCV_Ears said:
...and now KTRB, where rumor has had them for a few years.
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I never saw it myself, but I have heard from several people that A's game tickets had KTRB listed as one of the team's stations back in 2006. Somebody forgot to tell KTRB, though...
 
So, being that KTRB is presumably still running xmtr power via diesel fuel,
does this make KTRB "the 50,000-gallon flagship station of the Oakland A's"?
;D
--jay
 
SCV_Ears said:
This makes KTRB, what, the 13th A's flagship since moving here in 1968?

Drumroll, please: KNBR (twice), KEST, KEEN, KALX (for just a month, but still ...), KXRX, KSFO, KNEW, KABL, KFRC-AM, KYOU, KFRC-FM and now KTRB, where rumor has had them for a few years.
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I am curious, Ok, KALX had them for only a month but which station broadcast them the longest? Also, I know The Giants are on KNBR and before that KSFO. Were those the only 2 SF Flagship stations of THE GIANTS?
 
Madmansam said:
I know The Giants are on KNBR and before that KSFO. Were those the only 2 SF Flagship stations of THE GIANTS?
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Yes, indeed.
 
Madmansam said:
I am curious, Ok, KALX had them for only a month but which station broadcast them the longest? Also, I know The Giants are on KNBR and before that KSFO. Were those the only 2 SF Flagship stations of THE GIANTS?
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The longest the A's aired on one station was from 1981-92 on KSFO-surviving the change in ownership from Golden West(Gene Autry) to King Broadcasting(then owners of KYA) in late '83, and the various format changes from 'MOR'(through '83) to 'personality-driven, but not quite as MOR' to oldies(mid-1986 through early '90s), including the era when KSFO and KYA simulcast everything but baseball(the A's were always 'AM-only'.)
 
I do miss the days of Al Helfer and his "Bell Cows" (ask Hal Ramey he remembers them all) and The Commander Bob Elson, who somtimes thought he was still in Chicago doing the White Soxes...those were the days of A's baseball...
 
lenhockey said:
I do miss the days of Al Helfer and his "Bell Cows" (ask Hal Ramey he remembers them all) and The Commander Bob Elson, who somtimes thought he was still in Chicago doing the White Soxes...those were the days of A's baseball...
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What are you ... like 90 years old, or something? Do you remember when games were broadcast by cave paintings? ;D

Extra cheese on that Pike's Peak, pal!
 
onairb said:
Madmansam said:
I am curious, Ok, KALX had them for only a month but which station broadcast them the longest? Also, I know The Giants are on KNBR and before that KSFO. Were those the only 2 SF Flagship stations of THE GIANTS?
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The longest the A's aired on one station was from 1981-92 on KSFO-surviving the change in ownership from Golden West(Gene Autry) to King Broadcasting(then owners of KYA) in late '83, and the various format changes from 'MOR'(through '83) to 'personality-driven, but not quite as MOR' to oldies(mid-1986 through early '90s), including the era when KSFO and KYA simulcast everything but baseball(the A's were always 'AM-only'.)
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IIRC, the A's and KSFO parted ways about the time KSFO tried lefty talk (Peter B. Collins in afternoon drive, for example). Still think leaving that 560 signal was as big a mistake as any of Beene's "moneyball" fire sales, with the number of stations they've bounced around.
 
SCV_Ears said:
This makes KTRB, what, the 13th A's flagship since moving here in 1968?

Drumroll, please: KNBR (twice), KEST, KEEN, KALX (for just a month, but still ...), KXRX, KSFO, KNEW, KABL, KFRC-AM, KYOU, KFRC-FM and now KTRB, where rumor has had them for a few years.
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Didn't KEAR also have to carry the A's immediately after taking over the Big 610 facility to finish the baseball season? I thought that was peculiar, not from a contractual standpoint, but from a content perspective.
 
Newsperson responds:

Yes KAER 610 KHz. did have to carry the A's except most of us think of it as continuation of 610 KFRC and the contract was with the old KFRC and not directly with Family Radio.

As I now remember is was the broker Elliot Evers who represented Family Radio and approched Infinity Radio about selling 610 and buyng 106.9. He certainally made a huge commission! And he could care less about the old KFRC.

Newsperson
 
newsperson said:
Newsperson responds:

Yes KAER 610 KHz. did have to carry the A's except most of us think of it as continuation of 610 KFRC and the contract was with the old KFRC and not directly with Family Radio.

Newsperson
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I think you might be right. I don't recall KEAR actually transferred its call sign to 610 immediately??
 
sloux said:
... I don't recall KEAR actually transferred its call sign to 610 immediately??
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Correct...610's callsign became KEAR just after the end of the Oakland A's broadcasts...

Must say, it was WEIRD hearing the callsign KFRC during the Family Radio daze of 610 KC...
--jay
 
SCV_Ears said:
any of Beene's "moneyball" fire sales, with the number of stations they've bounced around.
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The oldies format on KSFO lasted for most of '93, while the A's moved (briefly) to KNEW.
KSFO(which had actually been sold by King Broadcasting in late '92) adopted the 'lefty talk' format in September of '93...with Gene Nelson as the only holdover from the oldies era.
The next year, of course, KSFO was sold once again, and the A's began their first stint on KFRC
 
BossRadioDJ said:
Veteran sportscaster Ron Barr is the founder of the Sports Byline USA network. He also hosts the network’s flagship program, “Sports Byline USA,” Monday through Friday, 7pm to 10pm PT. In returning to a bay area broadcast home, Barr says, “It’s always nice to come home. I think the over 40 hours a week of Sports Byline programming on KTRB will give Bay Area sports fans the kind of choice they haven’t had here in several years.”
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I was wondering if Sport Byline would ever find a permanent home in its hometown. Here's a network that has been running for 20 years over on Broadway and it's had no regular outlet in the Bay Area. Yet they have lots of affiliates elsewhere.
 
Newsperson notes:

I know we have listed KFRC 106.9 FM except we did not specify the call letters of the station that signed them up (the A's) in 2006....KIFR the station that began and had a following only to be replaced by a station that was later killed!

Does anyone miss KIFR? It certainly had a more of a fun talk format than KGO so I'd like to like to hear your thoughts on the late KIFR 106.9 in S.F.

Newsperson
 
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