It's been almost a year since the funding ran out on Moncrief in the Morning, and I know many of you have wondered when I was going to be back on the air again. Well, the news is thus:
No Antenna Needed Radio, the number 1 rated Internet Radio Station in the San Fernando Valley, will be rolling out a brand new set of shows beginning on July 6th. And one of those shows will be called SoCal Sports Weekly and will be hosted by me.
It'll be a two hour sports radio show that focuses on sports in the greater Los Angeles area. Each week on "SCSW", we will not just focus on the Lakers, Dodgers, USC Football, and/or UCLA Basketball, as many other media outlets seem intent on saturating the market out here with. We will certainly cover those teams, but they will not enjoy the same monply of air time on SCSW as they do on other programming.
We'll be talking Kings and Ducks hockey, Angels baseball (as well as the minor leagues), Clippers hoops (yes, we will actually be talking about them), and all kinds of collegiate and amateur sports. There are so many sporting events happening over the course of 12 months in this area, and they all deserve equal billing - we will be the ones leading the way in providing that coverage that you can't find anywhere else.
On our first episode, which will be live on the site on Tuesday the 6th, our main guest will be Los Angeles Kings TV analyst Jim Fox. The Kings figure to be a big player in free agency on Thursday as they seek to acquire Ilya Kovalchuk and/or others. Jim will join me to break down all the moves, and the ones that weren't made, as well as talk about the just concluded NHL Draft.
SCSW will also be reviving a feature we started on the old show, repackaged as our "SoCal Sports Correspondents". Each week, they'll provide timely and topical information and insight about what is happening with the teams and players in their specific sport. Then one of them will join me in a 'break out' segment to elaborate on a major story. In our first episode, soccer correspondent Mario Melara, Chivas USA beat writer for 90:00 Magazine, will talk MLS and World Cup soccer with us.
I am very excited to be joining the growing roster of talent at No Antenna Needed Radio, and obviously thrilled to be back 'on the air' with some great sports content. As the show evolves, I'll let you know how you can interact directly with our show. And if you don't live in this area... well, that sucks for you, but seriously, you'll get the chance to hear my voice talking sports, which is why most of you are reading this anyway - and I thank all of you for your support.
There are two other major projects in the works right now that still aren't ready to come out of the oven, but that I can tease a little: they are both video podcast shows that I'm pitching to advertisers right now, and hopeful to get going immediately. I'm confident that this will happen in the next few weeks, and when they are ready to launch, you will know about them.
I'm also still plugging away doing sports pages for Mahalo, contributing featured blogs for BowlGamer.com on college football, covering the Dodgers for Examiner.com, and of course the Kings coverage on Examiner as well. I thank you for continuing to read my works and for the kind words spoken and written about them. Oh, and recently I had the chance to serve as color analyst for the two Santa Monica Little League city championship games earlier this month at the AAA and Majors levels. I have the DVD copy, and following a screening here at Mahalo that Jason "LeBron must be Knick" Calacanis has requested (which features fellow Mahaloan Jeff Ammons singing the national anthem), I will upload them to Blip TV and post the link on my Facebook page so you can watch it at your lesiure.
I'll be at the Kings Development Camp Thursday covering the action on the ice (the young guys trying to make a name for themselves) and off the ice (the organization making roster moves) from the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo. Meanwhile, here are my two media credentials from the past week's NHL events.
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