No Krystal Fernandez in San Francisco?
Blog traffic has again picked up, but I doubt that this is the cause:
Morning simulcast: KNBR (680 AM) has announced it will simulcast its morning show on sister station KTCT (1050 AM) beginning Jan. 3. The afternoon drive-time show with Ralph Barbieri and Tolbert also has a dual airing.
You can read two things into the morning-show move: 1) It's a vote of confidence for Tim Liotta and former Chronicle sportswriter Brian Murphy, who took over the morning-show duties last month. 2) It's a vote of no confidence for the Van Earl Wright-hosted Fox Sports Radio syndicated morning show, which has run on KTCT.
In October, Wright replaced Tony Bruno on the Fox program. If Bruno still had his job with Fox, it's pretty safe to assume the KNBR morning show wouldn't go the simulcast route.
However, the radio stations claim that all drive time sports is local:
San Francisco, California – The KNBR 680 Morning Show with Brian Murphy and Tim Liotta will be simulcast on KNBR 1050 beginning Monday, January 3, 2005.
"Since being paired together just one month ago, Brian and Tim have brought a fresh, local and very entertaining approach to the Morning Show on 680," said KNBR Program Director Bob Agnew in announcing the simulcast. "Listener reaction has been very positive."
"The nationally syndicated shows are perfect for the middle of the day on KNBR 1050, but we feel that our two most important day parts, morning and afternoons, must be live and very local," Agnew continued.
Agnew pointed out that KNBR did the same with "The Razor and Mr. T," Ralph Barbieri and Tom Tolbert, with a simulcast in the afternoon. "It has been a very successful move for us and we feel that the morning show simulcast will have the same results."
Tony Salvadore, Susquehanna San Francisco Market Manager and KNBR General Manager, called the move a strong statement of support for Brian and Tim. "We are committed to this Morning Show and are proving it by putting it on two 50,000 signals."
[OE UPDATE 1/14/2005: Poster mystery solved.]
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About Krysal Fernandez
Krystal Fernandez joined Fox Sports Radio in March 2004 as the morning update anchor. She also serves as a sports/feature reporter for KTTV/Fox 11 TV in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Fox Sports Radio, Krystal was a sports reporter and anchor for KLSX-FM 97.1, KXTA-AM 1150, and XTRA-AM 690 in Southern California. Krystal is single and resides in Los Angeles. She can be reached at krystalfernandez@clearchannel.com.
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