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Chron: Sportsbeat moves from KTRH 740 to KBME 790

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  1. Rockets34Legend

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    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/3094740

    SportsBeat, Houston's longest-running sports talk show, moves to KBME from KTRH (740 AM) on April 5. Carl Dukes will host the show from 7 to 9 p.m. ...

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    Vandermeer's everywhere and isn't going anywhere
    By DAVID BARRON
    Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

    No, the atmosphere has not shifted, and no, you're not crazy — at least, not in this narrowly defined context: That really was KILT (610 AM) talk show host Marc Vandermeer's voice you heard Thursday and Saturday on KBME (790 AM).

    Vandermeer was one of eight play-by-play men who worked Westwood One's radio broadcasts of the NCAA Tournament. He was assigned to games in Tucson, Ariz., so his calls of the Texas Tech and Oklahoma games wound up on KBME, which has local radio rights to the NCAA Tournament.

    "Ken Charles (Clear Channel Radio's regional vice president) signed off on this, and I appreciate him doing so," Vandermeer said. "I gave a shout out on 610 last week to let people know that when they heard me on 790 that I hadn't switched employers."

    In past years, Westwood One broadcasters never knew when they would be on the air because of the broadcast's whip-around formula. This year, with each game carried in its entirety on Sirius Satellite Radio, Vandermeer and his counterparts worked nonstop.

    "It's fun to be part of that broadcast," he said. "Only eight guys in the country get to do it, but it's an endurance test."

    KILT, by the way, might have benefited from exquisite timing when it signed Vandermeer to a new three-year contract this month. The Miami Dolphins switched flagship stations this past week, and all indications are that the team would have gone after Vandermeer to replace Howard David as its play-by-play voice were he not off the market.
     
  2. gwayneco

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    Damn! Stuck with "Rock and Roll" boy. :mad:
     

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