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SportsRadio 610, SportsTalk 790 in Tight Race in Houston Summer Ratings Book

With three sports radio stations, Houston remains a crowded market.

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With three sports radio stations, Houston remains a crowded market. In the summer ratings period, SportsRadio 610 and SportsTalk 790 went back and forth winning dayparts in the coveted Men 25-54 demographic.

Beginning with weekday prime (M-F, 6A-7P), SportsRadio 610 edged SportsTalk 790 by a 2.7 to 2.5 share margin. That placed the two stations 17th and tied for 18th for the quarter. The market’s third local sports station, ESPN 97.5 garnered a 1.0 to finish 26th.

Morning drive was where the closest battle took place. The Sean Salisbury Show registered a 2.1 for SportsTalk 790, a big leap from an 0.7 in the spring. By tripling the share, Salisbury ranked 20th, edging SportsRadio 610’s Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast, which finished with a 1.8 and tied for 21st. Payne and Pendergast were higher in the spring with a 3.0. For ESPN 97.5, The Bench with John Granato and Lance Zierlein finished 25th with a 1.0 share.

Middays from 10 AM -2PM saw the widest gap in the race for the top sports show in the market. SportsRadio 610’s In The Loop, featuring John Lopez, Landry Locker, and Figgy Fig, took the format’s top spot, finishing 12th with a 3.3 share. The show grew from a 2.7 share in the previous quarter. SportsTalk 790 splits the daypart between a pair of shows — Next Up with Stan Norfleet & Chris Gordy and The Matt Thomas Show — and finished 22nd with a 1.6 share. Previously, the show was 23rd with a 0.9.

ESPN 97.5 also aired two shows in the daypart during the summer book but a change took place to the later part of their midday schedule in August. The Paul Gallant Show was featured regularly this book from 10 AM-12 PM. The 12 PM -3PM slot belonged mostly this book to The Killer B’s with Joel Blank and Jeremy Branham. The show moved into afternoon drive on August 22nd meaning they owned 2 months of the 3-month performance. The other month was a reflection of Josh Beard’s work alongside Michael Conner. For the quarter, the midday combo delivered a 1.3 share, good for 23rd overall.

In afternoons from 2 PM -6 PM, SportsRadio 610’s Clint Stoerner and Ron Hughley led the format with a 3.2 share. That was good for 12th overall, up from a 2.9, 16th place finish in the spring. The A-Team with Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton and an hour of Matt Thomas took SportsTalk 790 to a 17th place tie from 2-6 with a 2.8, up slightly from 2.4 in the spring.

For ESPN 97.5, the book included two months of The Wheelhouse with Brad Kellner, Cody Stoots, and Jake Asman, and one month of The Killer B’s with Jeremy Branham and Joel Blank. Altogether the drive time slot was tied for 25th this book with a 0.9 share, down slightly from a 1.0 in the last ratings period.

The full-week ratings saw SportsTalk 790 top the format with a 2.7 share, good for 19th overall. SportsRadio 610 finished with a 2.4 (21st), while ESPN 97.5 grabbed an 0.8 share, finishing 26th.

Worth noting, the numbers above for each brand include their Over The Air performance and Streaming performance. They are representative of Nielsen’s measurement in the Houston Metro area.

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Shan Shariff: FS1 Has the Worst NFL Analysts

He noted that Skip Bayless, Craig Carton, and LeSean McCoy were the “dumbest” analysts for FS1.

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FS1 has assembled a wide-ranging cast of former NFL players and pundits throughout its analyst, panelist, and host roles. That doesn’t mean they have earned the respect of 105.3 The Fan’s Shan Shariff.

During the Dallas morning show Tuesday, Shariff shared that in a recent interview with Awful Announcing, he named the three “dumbest” analysts when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys. He noted that Skip Bayless is the worst offender, while Craig Carton is third on his list behind LeSean McCoy. All three work for FS1.

A recent statement from McCoy caught the particular ire of Shariff, for arguing that Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, despite playing well recently and being viewed as an NFL MVP candidate, needs to play worse to see how he’ll respond to the adversity.

“I wanna see when he messes and how he responds,” McCoy said.

“I honestly think — I don’t know if he’s a clown or if he’s just not intelligent…he made zero sense,” Shariff said. “Everyone else on set was looking at him like ‘You want him to be worse and mess up so he can respond to that in order to get more MVP consideration?'”

“If he had said ‘I need to see Dak play well against good teams’, that’s a totally valid statement,” co-host RJ Choppy said. “This makes no sense.”

Shariff then brought up a recent statement from FS1’s Joy Taylor that argued Prescott can’t win the MVP due to his on-field play.

“This is like a two-and-a-half-minute clip. I don’t have the patience for or the tolerance for that,” Shariff said.

Co-host Bobby Belt responded by saying “She’s clearly on TV because of her football opinions,” which led Shan Shariff to say “Yeah, Thanks, Jason Taylor,” the older brother of Joy Taylor, who made the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a 13-year NFL career.

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ESPN 1400 Coming to KGVL in Greenville, Texas

Greenville, Texas is 50 miles northeast of Dallas.

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KGVL in Greenville, Texas is preparing to flip formats from oldies to sports radio with ESPN 1400 set to debut after Christmas.

After it wraps up airing Christmas music, the station will permanently air a sports format with ESPN Radio.

“While we have enjoyed bringing you classic hits for the last few years, we have an opportunity to bring something to Northeast Texas that we can’t pass up!,” a post to the station’s Facebook stage said. “Starting after the Holidays, we will become ESPN 1400! Not only will we bring you non-stop sports, but we will also carry LIVE sports like college football, NFL, NBA, MLB, and even CFP Bowl Games!”

Greenville, Texas is 50 miles northeast of Dallas. KGVL is a Class C, 1,000 watt station owned by E Radio Network. The station covers the majority of Dallas and the eastern portion of the Metroplex. It can also be heard on FM translators on 105.9 FM and 107.7 FM.

The news was first reported by RadioInsight.

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Scott Van Pelt: ‘Say Yes Until You Earn the Right to Say No’

“You put as much on your plate; be a good earner for your employer…”

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On Monday afternoon, the New York Jets made headlines when Dianna Russini of The Athletic reported that quarterback Zach Wilson was reluctant to reassume the starting role when asked by the team. Shortly after the report was promulgated, ESPN New York afternoon program, The Michael Kay Show, welcomed ESPN SportsCenter and Monday Night Countdown host Scott Van Pelt for his weekly appearance on the show. When he was asked about the Wilson situation, he compared it to how those in the sports media business interact with management and earn credibility and prestige.

“Peter, you wear a lot of hats man,” Van Pelt said, addressing co-host Peter Rosenberg. “Your boss says, ‘Hey, we need you to come in and do this, that or the other.’ I always say to people in any business, ‘Say yes until you earn the right to say no.’ You put as much on your plate; be a good earner for your employer; and then at some point maybe you earn the right to say, ‘Listen, I’d rather not do this, but I’ve got you on all these other things.”

Show co-host Michael Kay hypothesized a scenario in which Van Pelt would tell ESPN management that he did not want to host Monday Night Countdown because of the injury to Cincinnati Bengals starting quarterback Joe Burrow. For Scott Van Pelt though, he understands the position he is in and how there are other people that look at him with a sense of envy.

“This is where you could point out, ‘How many people would kill to do this?,’ and that’s what we hear in our business [is] ‘You know how many people would kill to do this?,’” Van Pelt said. “Of course, and we get all that, and we’re lucky people – all of us – we’re in the get-to job, not got-to.”

Scott Van Pelt brought up how there are likely listeners who work extremely hard and would be aghast and perplexed if they heard someone in sports media talking about how they did not want to go to work. Moreover, he referred to what Wilson reportedly said as “an indefensible position” as the segment concluded.

Earlier in the segment, Kay called it “bizarre” that the discussion was even being had about Wilson not wanting to return to the starting quarterback job after being relegated from the role two weeks ago. Co-host Don La Greca also added his perspective into the situation, addressing Kay about how he goes about his work as the play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees and working in other roles.

“Michael, you know in your life there’s probably lots of times you’d love to tell your boss, ‘Are you kidding me?,’” La Greca said, “but you still say ‘Yes’ because it’s your boss.”

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