- KESP
Infobox Radio Station
name = KESP
city =Modesto, California
area =Modesto, California
branding = "ESPN Radio 970"
slogan =
airdate = 1940s?
frequency = 970 (kHz)
format =Sports Radio
erp = 1,000watt s
class = B
facility_id = 11233
callsign_meaning = K ESPN
owner =Citadel Broadcasting
webcast =
website = [http://www.espnradio970.com/ www.espnradio970.com]
affiliations =ESPN Radio
Modesto Nuts Minor League Baseball
Pacific Tigers College Basketball
sister_stations = KATM, KDJK/KHKK,KHOP ,KJOY , KWIN/KWNNKESP 970AM is an all-sports
radio station inModesto, California , USA. The station serves Modesto, Stockton, Lodi, and surrounding communities of the northernSan Joaquin Valley .KESP is the flagship station of the
Modesto Nuts of theCalifornia League (baseball ), and the flagship station ofPacific Tigers college basketball team. It is also a member of theSan Francisco 49ers ,San Jose Sharks ,Golden State Warriors , andCalifornia Golden Bears radio network s. Most of its daily programming, as the call letters imply, comes fromESPN Radio .KESP features a morning news program, Modesto's Morning News, from 5-9am, and two local sports talk programs: "The Jim" with host
Jim L. Wells weekday afternoons from 1-4pm PT, and "Mike and the Mouth" hosted by Mike Benton and a co-host known only as "The Mouth."KESP gained its current call sign, and format, in the early 2000s. Before that, it was news/talk station KHYV. The station was owned by the McClatchy family, as in
McClatchy Newspapers , which publishes the "Modesto Bee ". (The McClatchy company has since sold the station toCitadel Broadcasting .)In a sports-related note,
Kevin McClatchy , a member of the publishing family, owned thePittsburgh Pirates until the team was sold toRobert Nutting in 2007.External links
* [http://www.espnradio970.com/ Official site]
*AMQ|KESP
*AML|KESP
*AMARB|KESP
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