Steve Mason (Radio)

Steve Mason is a sports radio personality based in Southern California currently heard weekday afternoons 1-4 pm on AM710 KSPN in Los Angeles.

Radio career

Mason started his began his radio career in Southern California in 1992, working at XTRA 690 in San Diego. Prior to this, Mason had worked in Toledo, Ohio at WRQN. It was in San Diego that he first teamed with John Ireland, a San Diego television sports reporter, in what eventually became “The Big Show with Mason & Ireland”. The show would run for over 5 years and for a time also aired on Fox Sports West cable television.

From 1996 to 1998 Mason hosted the “Late, Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder and Steve Mason” for the CBS Radio network.

He later did a stint for WNEW 102.7 FM (now WWFS) in New York City (The Anti Show with Steve Mason & Sue Kolinsky) before teaming with Jim Lampley on the Fox Sports Radio Network (“We Are There with Steve Mason & Jim Lampley). The show ran from 2000 to 2003.

In 2003, Mason & Ireland would re-team in “The Big Show with Mason & Ireland”, now in Los Angeles for the local ESPN radio outlet, AM710 KSPN. Until late 2007, they had the weekday afternoon 4-7pm drive time slot. In November 2007, in a shuffling of on air talent, Ireland was let go by the station, and Mason was moved to his present 1 to 4pm early afternoon shift.

Television work

In addition to his radio work, Mason has served as an announcer for NBC television’s coverage of the Olympics. His work included:
*2002 Winter Olympics – play by play for bobsledding and ski jumping events
*2004 Summer Olympics – commentator for shooting events

References

[http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/show?showId=stevemasonshow] AM710 KSPN show schedule

Links

* [http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/ AM710 KSPN homepage]
* [http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/710espn/story?id=mason Steve Mason's bio on KSPN homepage]
* [http://www.stevemason.com/ Steve Mason's homepage]