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iHeart Reveals Plans For New Orleans Sports Station

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iHeartmedia has revealed that it’s been working on a project to make a much greater impact in New Orleans. Starting July 17th, the company will strengthen Sports Radio 1280, by introducing a brand new lineup which includes a mixture of FOX Sports Radio personalities, local voices and iHeart Houston hosts with a connection to the state of Louisiana.

Here’s a look at the weekday lineup:

  • 5-8 a.m.: Clay Travis
  • 8-10 a.m.: Chris Gordy
  • 10 a.m.-noon: Dunc & Holder
  • Noon-2 p.m.: Josh Innes
  • 2-4 p.m.: Jordy Hultberg
  • 4-6 p.m.: Kaare Johnson

Perhaps the biggest local splash involves Times-Picayune sports columnists Jeff Duncan and Larry Holder. The duo have spent over a decade each covering the New Orleans sports scene. Holder has primarily covered the Saints for 11 years, and Duncan is a four-time recipient of the Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s Columnist of the Year award, who’s currently in his 12th year as a sports columnist.

The pair will be heard weekdays on Sports Radio 1280, as well as nola.com/sports, and the NOLA.com and iHeartradio app. A video stream of the show will also be provided on the NOLA.com YouTube channel, and a podcast of each day’s show will be presented on nola.com/duncandholder and the iHeart app. The Times-Picayune says it will also feature the best quotes and social media activity from each week’s shows on the Dunc & Holder page in the Sunday Sports section starting July 23.

“With ‘Dunc & Holder’ we continue to fulfill our commitment to sharpen our journalism and deepen our engagement with the New Orleans community,” added Tim Williamson, President of NOLA Media Group. “By expanding our sports coverage, we are able to engage readers in new ways and serve advertisers on every available platform: print, digital, social, video, radio, TV, events.”

“iHeart Media and Sports 1280 are honored to partner with NOLA Media Group and The Times-Picayune,” said Michael Hudson, President for IHeartMedia New Orleans and Baton Rouge. “Content is everything in radio and Jeff Duncan and Larry Holder bring great content and expertise to Sports 1280.”

The timing of the launch coincides with changes taking place in Houston on SportsTalk 790. Monday July 17th is when the station will roll out its new weekday lineup which includes Josh Innes in morning drive. Given the structure of 1280’s lineup, it appears that Innes will host mornings in Houston, take a little break, and then go live two hours later for New Orleans. Innes grew up in Louisiana, attended high school and college there, and started his radio career in the state.

Additionally, Chris Gordy gains an opportunity to host his own daily show. Gordy has been a member of 790 in Houston and is no stranger to the microphone having hosted various shows on the station. Gordy is from New Orleans, went to school at LSU and also began his radio career in the state before making the move to Texas.

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KNBR’s Brian Murphy Speaks for First Time After Paul McCaffrey Laid Off

“Paulie Mac is my guy, will forever be my guy. The best thing I could ever wish anyone is that you get to work with someone as loyal, energetic, funny, consistent as the guy his Jersey buddies call ‘Smack’.”

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Earlier this week, KNBR underwent a round of layoffs, affecting a pair of programs on the Bay Area sports station, including the departure of longtime morning host Paul McCaffrey. His longtime partner — Brian Murphy — has taken to X to share his thoughts.

In a thread to X, Murphy shared his admiration for McCaffrey, whom he hosted Murph and Mac with for 18 years.

“Paulie Mac is my guy, will forever be my guy. The best thing I could ever wish anyone is that you get to work with someone as loyal, energetic, funny, consistent as the guy his Jersey buddies call ‘Smack’,” wrote Murphy. “So much love.”

He then shared that everything listeners and fans of the program have shared on social media has been read by the duo, and thanked them for the outpouring of love and support.

Finally, Murphy addressed his future. Fill-in host Dieter Kurtenbach shared on Thursday he did not have a definitive answer about Murphy’s future with the Cumulus-owned station.

However, Brian Murphy has shared he will return to the airwaves on Monday morning.

“I’ll be back Monday morning on KNBR with our guy Markus (Waterboy) Boucher,” Murphy wrote. “Come on. It’s Niners-Eagles. Wouldn’t miss it. As Paulie Mac’s board itself would say: The show goes on.”

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Mike Mulligan: Sports Radio is More Difficult Than Other Formats Think

He shared that he has worked with people on morning shows that he has seen come to a station fully hungover who play music and proceed to sit on the couch.

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On Friday morning’s edition of Mully & Haugh on 670 The Score in Chicago, co-host Mike Mulligan outlined the difference with music radio that hosts are not continuously talking to the audience, instead taking mic breaks and then interspersing commentary with different songs.

Filling in for David Haugh on Friday’s edition of the program was Gabe Ramirez, who used to work in the format with B96 as the host of its morning show. Mulligan’s assertion about the differences between the two formats resulted in a conversation about the differences between the grenres, with Ramirez explaining the difficulties that music radio hosts face on the air.

“The music station’s still creating content,” Ramirez said. “You get to have a guest – since I am going to defend my music stations – you get to have a guest and toss them a softball question and listen to them rant for five minutes.”

Mulligan disagreed with this perspective, conveying that he does not feel their program provides guests with easy questions. Additionally, he shared that he has worked with people on morning shows that he has seen come to a station fully hungover who play music and proceed to sit on the couch.

“As a former sportswriter, we sit around and we talk about sports,” Mulligan said. “We talk about the sports we cover and we talk about other sports.”

“You have to talk about Justin Fields seven days in a row,” Ramirez replied. “As a morning show for music, you have to come up with new content every day.”

Rather than taking umbrage towards the response, Mike Mulligan explained that the key to effectively performing his job is being able to discuss important stories of the day even when they are not the headlines. Furthermore, he expounded on the commitment that it takes to watch the amount of sporting events and to be properly informed on the action so he is able to take the air.

“That I will agree with,” Ramirez said. “I’ve told people this – they ask me, ‘What’s the biggest difference?’ The prep, without question, is way more difficult in sports radio because everyone that’s listening to you already knows the answers and you have to be equally if not more informed in all of those things.”

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Minnesota Twins Set to Tab Cory Provus as New TV Voice, Kris Atteberry as Lead Radio Announcer

Provus has been the radio voice of the Minnesota Twins since 2012.

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After Dick Bremer exited the Minnesota Twins TV booth in October, the search began for his replacement. The MLB franchise didn’t have to look far, though.

Twins radio voice Cory Provus is reportedly set to become the new TV play-by-play broadcaster for the club, according to a report from Dan Hayes of The Athletic.

Provus has been the radio voice of the Minnesota Twins since 2012. Many immediately tabbed him as the club’s replacement for Bremer, who retired after 40 seasons as the lead television voice of the American League club. Before joining the team in 2012, Provus worked for the Milwaukee Brewers as the number two broadcaster after spending two seasons as the radio pregame host for the Chicago Cubs.

Meanwhile, Kris Atteberry has been signaled as the person set to replace Provus inside the franchise’s radio booth. He has served as the pregame and postgame host for the Minnesota Twins Radio Network since 2007. Atteberry joined the club after spending five years calling games for the then-Independent St. Paul Saints from 2002-2006.

While the television and radio broadcast crews appear set, questions remain about where the team will televise its games in 2024. The club’s contract with Bally Sports North has reportedly expired, and it has yet to sign an agreement with the bankruptcy-laden RSN, or with a local over-the-air television station.

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