Yahoo! Sports Radio

Yahoo! Sports Radio

Broadcast area	United States Canada (SDARS)
Branding	Yahoo! Sports Radio
First air date	1991
Format	Sports Talk
Website	Yahoo! Sports Radio

Yahoo! Sports Radio, formerly Sporting News Radio is a United States sports radio network that broadcasts sports news, talk, scores, and highlights 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. On August 1, 2011, it was announced the network would change its name to Yahoo! Sports Radio, effective immediately.

Yahoo! Sports Radio can be found on AM & FM radio stations across the country. A limited selection of Yahoo! Sports Radio programming is offered on Sirius XM Radio on Channel 209. The network also streams live on its website.

Yahoo! Sports Radio's network operations center is located in Houston, Texas. The operations are in the same facility as the network's Houston affiliate, Houston sports radio station KGOW (1560 AM).

History

The early days

One on One Sports was founded in 1991 and delivered innovative closed-circuit broadcasts to spectators attending premier sporting events such as golf tournaments and auto races, utilizing custom radio receivers, coupled play-by-play commentary with special programming for the listeners on site.

In 1993, One on One bought the Sports Entertainment Network.

SEN (1991–1993)

Originally, the network was called the Sports Entertainment Network and was headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Founded in 1991, it was the third all-sports radio network in the United States. Enterprise Sports Network existed briefly in the late '70s and early 1980s, while a small, national network called RTV Sports operated out of Mashpee, Massachusetts (on Cape Cod) in 1987 and 1988 on 27 stations across the U.S. RTV's owner, Tom Star, abruptly shut it down and absconded with the assets and paychecks suddenly in the summer of 1988 without a word to the staff and talent.

One on One Sports (1993–2001)

In 1993, a group of Chicago, Illinois-area investors bought Sports Entertainment Network, moved it to Northbrook, Illinois, and it became One on One Sports. One on One Sports had sports updates every 20 minutes, that it called "One On One Sports Flash".

One on One eventually bought owned and operated radio stations. By the time of the Sporting News purchase, it had owned WJWR (now WSNR) in New York City, WIDB (now WNTD) in Chicago, KCTD (now KMPC) in Los Angeles, California and WNRB (now WWZN) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sporting News Radio (2001–2011)

One On One Sports was bought by The Sporting News in 2000, and thus the network was renamed Sporting News Radio in early 2001. The only real change SNR has undergone since being renamed was in August 2005, when it received a new program clock and a new music package. However, the music package and program clocks are almost identical to the old ones.

In 2006, Paul Allen sold SNR and The Sporting News. The network and magazine went to American City Business Journals of Charlotte, North Carolina, while the three remaining stations (KMPC, WWZN, and WSNR) were then re-sold to other companies.

WWZN continued to carry some SNR programs, but now carries brokered time progressive talk from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and religious programming in the overnight hours. Meanwhile, KMPC and WSNR no longer air sports shows at all. KMPC now broadcasts in Korean, not English, and WSNR devotes its whole day to brokered shows and airs Caribbean music (such as reggae on weekends). (WNTD had been sold some years earlier to Multicultural Broadcasting and now airs multi-ethnic brokered time shows; it was also the original Chicago area affiliate of Air America Radio.)

Weekday Hosts include Steve Czaban, Sean Pendergast, Tim Brando, Travis Rodgers, Todd Wright, and John Harris.

Weekend Hosts include Steve Czaban, Jason Goch, Bob Berger, Craig Shemon, Doug Russell, and Peter Brown.

Special contributors include Peter Gammons and Troy Aikman.

Programming

Weekday lineup

All times U.S. Eastern Time.

START	END	PROGRAM	PRODUCER
2 AM	6 AM	The John Harris Show	Will Moriarty
6 AM	10 AM	The Steve Czaban Show	Steve Solomon & Dave Druda
10 AM	1 PM	The Tim Brando Show	Kyle Manthey & Dave Druda
1 PM	4 PM	Sean Pendergast's CabliNation	Brandon Strange & Matt Millik
4 PM	7 PM	Travis Rodgers Now	Matt Millik & Brandon Strange
7 PM	10 PM	Gamecast	John Cassio
10 PM	2 AM	Todd Wright Tonight	Will Moriarty & Lorenzo Patrick

Saturday lineup

START	END	PROGRAM	PRODUCER
6 AM	9 AM	Best of Steve Czaban Show
9 AM	1 PM	Jason Goch
1 PM	7 PM	Sports Saturday With Bob Berger & Craig Shemon
7 PM	11 PM	YSR Postgame with Peter Brown
11 PM	4 AM	Last Call with Scott Jackson

Sunday lineup

START	END	PROGRAM	PRODUCER
4 AM	7 AM	Best of John Harris
7 AM	10 AM	Best of Travis Rodgers
10 AM	1 PM	YSR Pregame with Jason Goch
1 PM	7 PM	Sports Sunday with Bob Berger & Craig Shemon
7 PM	11 PM	YSR Postgame with Peter Brown
11 PM	2 AM	Last Call with Scott Jackson

Terrestrial affiliates

See also

• The Sporting News

External links

• Yahoo! Sports Radio
• Sporting News Radio Company Profile including brief history of the network.
• Official Website of The David Stein Show A Celebration of Life Through Sports
• Official MySpace page of The David Stein Show A Celebration of Life Through Sports
• announcement of Sporting News Radio move to Houston, Texas
• Fang's Bites: Sporting News Radio Is Now Yahoo! Sports Radio