Lurie moves pregame radio show from Oakland A's to SF Giants
- A's broadcasters Ken Korach and Vince Controneo will continue their 45-miniute pregame show on KTRB.
- For 12 years, most recently on KTRB, Lurie presented fans with "Right Off The Bat" -- a unique show that celebrates the game's history through interviews with old-timers, national writers, club executives, scouts and the like.
A longtime lawyer with an even longer love for baseball,
- Lurie has bought and sold his own time slots each year.
This offseason, though, he never quite landed on the same page as KTRB, which recently agreed to a long-term contract to broadcast A's games through 2019....
- "Toward the end of September, I started contacting KTRB but couldn't get answers to any of my e-mails or phone calls as to what the plans were for this next season. It went into late November when I found out that they were looking into different programming."
Said programming now represents the opinions of conservative talk-show host Michael Savage, who will run the airways 3-6 p.m. before the station turns it over to
- A's broadcasters Ken Korach and Vince Controneo, who will still have a
- 45-minute pregame show.
"Essentially they said the A's had too much pregame time and they wanted to have a talk show on," said Lurie, whose show always aired at 5 p.m. on days Oakland played night games....
- "KNBR has always respected everything I did, and they said they wanted to expand their pregame programming," Lurie said....
The result: A weekend show before and after every Giants game that will fill an estimated 5-6 hours for a combined 140 hours during the season. ...Lurie assured his longtime following of A's fans that they can expect much of the same from his new gig."...
- from MLB.com by Jane Lee, 2/4/10, "A's radio host bids farewell"
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