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-- Kevin Harlan, Boomer Esiason, Mark Malone, James
Lofton, Jim Gray and Scott Graham with Contributions
from Larry Fitzgerald and Phil Simms –
New York,
NY –
January 31, 2012 – Dial
Global (NASDAQ: DIAL),
the exclusive network radio
home of Westwood One Sports and the National
Football League (NFL), is proud to announce the
all-pro broadcast team for Super Bowl XLVI
featuring:
Kevin Harlan, Boomer Esiason, Mark Malone, James Lofton, Jim Gray and
Scott Graham.
Super Bowl XLVI airs live from Lucas Oil
Stadium in Indianapolis, IN on Sunday, February 5,
2012 as the New York Giants take on the New England
Patriots. Super Bowl XLVI
will be heard on over 650 radio stations across
America, on SiriusXM, on Verizon mobile devices and
online audiopass.nfl.com.
Beginning at 5:00 p.m. ET, the Monday Night
Football broadcast team of Kevin Harlan and
Boomer Esiason will call their second Super Bowl
together. Hall of Fame Packers receiver James Lofton
will patrol the Patriot’s sidelines and former
Steelers quarterback Mark Malone will report from
the Giants’ sidelines. Jim Gray hosts the pregame
and halftime shows, as well as provides interviews
and insight from athletes and celebrities in
attendance, and Scott Graham kicks off the coverage
hosting Super Bowl Preview at 3:00 p.m. ET,
followed by Super Sunday at 4:00 p.m. ET. Pro
Bowl wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald will contribute
to the pregame coverage and CBS Sports Lead Analyst
and former Super Bowl MVP Phil Simms will once again
contribute to the halftime coverage.
“We are honored and excited to present America’s biggest game to listeners
nationwide for the 25th consecutive year and 39th
time overall,” said Howard Deneroff, Executive
Producer and SVP of Westwood One/Dial Global Sports.
“Our crew is eagerly anticipating the kickoff of the
first ever Super Bowl in Indianapolis. If this game
is anything like the last time these two teams met
in the Super Bowl we are all in for an amazing
Sunday.”
Multi-platinum selling, GRAMMY Award-winning artist,
Darius Rucker, will commence Westwood One/Dial
Global Sports broadcast of Super Bowl Sunday with
his tailor-made NFL tune, “Kick-Off.” Being a
passionate football fan, Rucker jumped at the
opportunity to create a song for the league.
“I wasn’t good enough to ever be on the field with
these guys, so this is the closest I get to the
pros, but man, I love it!” shares Rucker.
“Looking forward to the rematch – it ought to be a
great game.” Since it’s October 2010 debut, Rucker’s
latest release, Charleston, SC 1966, has
garnered two #1 hits with “Come Back Song” and
“This.” His chart-topping 2008 release, Learn to
Live produced three consecutive No. 1 singles
and the Top 5 smash, “History in the Making.”
Darius is currently a special guest on Lady
Antebellum’s Own the Night Tour and working
on his third solo country album. For more
information, please visit
www.dariusrucker.com.
Super Bowl
XLVI
will also be heard on American Forces Radio Network
which provides programming to America’s military
forces around the globe. The American Forces Radio
Network serves over one million men and women in
uniform, Department of Defense personnel, American
Embassies and Consulates in over 175 countries and
territories as well as on more than 250 U.S. Navy,
U.S. Coast Guard and Military Sealift Command ships
at sea. Fans looking for the station in their area
airing the broadcast can visit
www.dialglobalsports.com.
The website will feature a nationwide station
finder, announcer bios, and exclusive analysis from
the broadcast crew throughout the week from
Indianapolis.
As the exclusive radio partner of the NFL, the
Westwood One Sports 2011-2012 NFL broadcast schedule
featured 58 national games, including: Opening
Kickoff game, 17 Monday Night games, including one
doubleheader, 17 Sunday Night games (including
Christmas Night), 7 Thursday Night games (including
Thanksgiving Night), one Saturday Night game, a
Thanksgiving Day doubleheader, 12 Postseason games,
including the NFL Playoffs, the AFC and NFC
Championship Games, the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl and Super
Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. Additionally, Westwood
One/Dial Global Sports also broadcast a Sunday
afternoon doubleheader each week, as well as
delivered specialty programs throughout the season,
including: The NFL Today, NFL Preview, NFL Insider,
NFL Sunday, and NFL Fantasy Football Forecast.
Dial Global is the leader in play-by-play sports
broadcasts on radio. Dial Global’s lineup includes
regular and post season NFL football, including the
playoffs and the Super Bowl, NCAA Football, NCAA
Basketball and The Final Four, The Masters
Tournament, MRN/NASCAR Radio and the 2012 Olympic
Summer Games in London.
About Dial Global
Dial Global (NASDAQ:
DIAL) is a diverse radio programming and advertising
sales company that provides vital content and
services to more than 7,000 radio stations
throughout the United States. Dial Global produces
and/or distributes over 200 news, sports, music,
talk and entertainment radio programs, services and
digital applications, as well as audio content from
live events. The company also produces the Dial
Global 24/7 turnkey music formats as well as prep
services, jingles and imaging. In addition, Dial
Global serves as the largest sales representative
for independent third party providers of audio
content. For more information, visit
www.dialglobal.com.
WESTWOOD ONE/DIAL GLOBAL
SPORTS SUPER BOWL BROADCAST TEAM
Kevin Harlan, in his second season as the full-time voice of Monday Night Football on
Westwood One/Dial Global, will call his second
straight Super Bowl for the network. Harlan
previously broadcast Super Bowl XXXV for CBS HDTV
and also currently calls play-by-play for CBS
Sports' coverage of both the NFL and NCAA Men's
Basketball Tournament. Harlan joined CBS Sports in
1998 as an NFL play-by-play announcer, after having
served in the same capacity for Fox Sports since
1994. This was his 27th consecutive
season broadcasting the NFL and with his additional
role as play-by-play announcer for the NBA on TNT,
this also marks his 24th season
broadcasting the NBA. Harlan spent nine
seasons (1985-93) as the voice of the Kansas City
Chiefs and was the voice of the Minnesota
Timberwolves for nine seasons as well. Harlan also
called the Final Four on Westwood One from
2003-2007.
Boomer Esiason,
the lead analyst for Westwood One/Dial Global’s coverage of the
NFL, has been part of the Monday Night Football
broadcast team for more than a decade and this marks
his 12th Super Bowl broadcast for the
network, and 13th overall. Esiason
co-host’s The NFL Today for CBS Sports and also
served as the Monday Night Football analyst for ABC
Sports for two seasons before joining Westwood One.
Boomer also co-hosts the #1 rated morning radio show
in New York, daily on WFAN, and co-hosts the weekly
show, NFL Preview with Scott Graham on
Westwood One/Dial Global as well. Prior to embarking
on a broadcasting career, Esiason was one of the
most prolific quarterbacks in NFL history. He spent
14 years in the NFL and quarterbacked the Cincinnati
Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII. In 1988, Esiason was
named NFL MVP by the Pro Football Writers of America
and the Associated Press.
Mark Malone,
analyst for Westwood One/Dial Global’s Sunday afternoon NFL
package, and sideline reporter for Monday Night
Football, will be working his fourth consecutive
Super Bowl for the network. Malone, who also hosts
NFL Insider each week, will patrol the
sidelines at Lucas Oil Stadium. Malone is most
well-known for the decade he spent with ESPN, where
he hosted many NFL shows including NFL Tonight, Edge
NFL Match-up and Monday Night Countdown. Prior to
joining Westwood One, he served as Sports Director
for WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he garnered four Emmys
for his work. Malone, an All-American quarterback at
Arizona State and first-round draft pick of the
Pittsburgh Steelers, played for 10 years in the NFL,
quarterbacking the Steelers to the 1984 AFC
Championship Game.
James Lofton,
analyst for Sunday Night Football on Westwood One/Dial Global, will work
his fifth Super Bowl for Westwood One as sideline
reporter, previously having served in that capacity
for Super Bowls XXXV, XXXVI, XLIV and XLV. In
between broadcasting stints with the network, Lofton
coached with the San Diego Chargers and Oakland
Raiders for seven years. He was the No. 1 draft pick
of the Green Bay Packers in 1978, beginning a long
career as an NFL wide receiver. In 16 seasons
playing for Green Bay, the Los Angeles Raiders,
Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams, and the
Philadelphia Eagles, Lofton caught 764 passes for
14,004 yards, which was the most in NFL history at
the time of his retirement. In 13 playoff games,
Lofton caught 41 passes for 759 yards and eight
touchdowns, including a seven-reception game in
Super Bowl XXVI. He was enshrined in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
Jim Gray,
host of the network’s Monday Night Football pre-game and halftime shows
since 2001, will fulfill the same role for the Super
Bowl, his 11th consecutive with the
network. Gray also serves as a reporter for Westwood
One’s coverage of both the Final Four, and The
Masters. A prominent network television reporter for
over two decades, Gray currently covers boxing for
Showtime, has been a contributor to the Golf
Channel, and also has
served as a courtside reporter for the NBA on CBS,
NBC, ABC and most recently ESPN. Gray’s
numerous credits include: seven Olympic Games, 23
Masters, 14 Super Bowls, seven World Series and 15
NBA Finals. Gray has won 11 Emmy Awards and also has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Scott Graham,
the pregame, halftime and postgame host for the network’s Sunday NFL
coverage, will be working his third straight Super
Bowl for Westwood One/Dial Global. Graham has spent
over twenty years as a radio and television
sportscaster including play-by-play for both the NFL
and NFL Europe on FOX. On the radio side, Graham
served as the play-by-play voice of the Philadelphia
Phillies for eight seasons from 1999-2006. For
nearly a decade prior to that, he hosted the pregame
and postgame shows for the Phillies on CBS Radio in
Philadelphia. Since 2003, Graham has narrated a
variety of programs, commercials, and features
produced by NFL Films. His voice has most often been
heard on NFL Game of the Week, in weekly game
previews on NFL.com, and in various season highlight
films for NFL teams. He also currently
co-hosts Westwood One/Dial Global’s weekly feature
program, NFL Preview with Boomer Esiason.
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NEW YORK, NY, January 24, 2012 – Dial
Global (NASDAQ: DIAL), announced today that 22.9
million people tuned in to hear radio broadcasts of
the Baltimore Ravens vs. New England Patriots AFC
Championship and New York Giants vs. San Francisco
Forty-Niners NFC Championship games on Sunday,
January 22, 2012. Dial Global, which broadcasts
nearly 100 NFL games and exclusively broadcasts all
NFL primetime games, the Playoffs and the Super Bowl
to a national audience, commissioned the study which
was conducted by Edison Research. The
study also found that the overwhelming majority of
listeners tuned in to the games via AM or FM radio;
alternative methods of listening included Sirius XM
and the Verizon Mobile App.
The Edison Research study is the first ever
of its kind, designed to accurately measure the
number of people that tuned in to hear NFL
conference championship broadcasts and make this
information available within two days of the event’s
conclusion. According to this one-night poll,
an estimated 22.9 million people listened to either
or both of the NFL conference championship games on
the radio this past Sunday. The national
survey was conducted via live telephone interviews
by Edison Research on January 23rd, 2012.
“This type of focused study and strategic
attention to the business exemplify our commitment
to being the most innovative and service focused
company in the industry supporting our affiliates
and advertisers.” said David Landau,
Co-President CEO of Dial Global.
"People think of football as a
television-only event. This survey shows that
in addition, many millions of people are seeking out
coverage of the games on the radio," said Larry
Rosin, Edison Research President. “The
overwhelming majority of radio listeners to the
games listened on AM or FM radio, but the survey did
show usage of Sirius XM and the Verizon Mobile App
as alternative methods to listen to the games.”
The survey’s findings highlight the
continued demand for radio broadcast coverage of
live events, including live sporting events. Dial
Global is the network radio home to some of the
biggest, most widely-followed sports in America
including: NFL Football, NCAA Football, NCAA
Basketball and The Final Four, The Masters
Tournament, MRN/NASCAR Radio and the 2012 Olympic
Summer Games in London.
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Longtime country programmer, CMA and CRB Board
Member, digital media manager and consultant Becky
Brenner becomes a VP and consulting partner with
Jaye Albright and Michael O’Malley’s company,
further adding to the resources available to
Albright & O’Malley clients. She will work out of
A&O’s west coast offices.
“I brought Becky into consulting in 1992 when I was
General Manager of Seattle-based BP Consulting
Group. I can name several hundred broadcasters we
worked with back then who immediately missed her
when Infinity hired her to return to their Seattle
cluster (including KMPSFM) as its General Program
Manager two decades ago. They will be delighted to
hear she’s come back to take on consulting clients,”
says Albright.
“She has done it all from major market mornings,
programming, management, sales, community
involvement,” adds O’Malley. "Albright & O'Malley
has always been about creating custom winning
strategies for our stations and equipping each with
unsurpassed tools. Becky Brenner is an outstanding
programmer, strategist and thinker and has already
proven herself as a very successful consultant. Her
addition to A&O will be yet another benefit for our
stations and caps what has been a very exciting
growth year for our company."
Brenner will begin working directly with all current
A&O clients effective immediately as the company
positions for further growth and service to both
small and large media companies. She adds, ”There is
nothing I enjoy more than collaborating, coaching
and creating success for clients. I am honored that
Jaye and Mike have given me this opportunity. This
partnership also gives my existing clients access to
the wonderful tools and resources that Albright &
O’Malley have established so successfully over the
years. “
Brenner was most recently Program Director for KMPS
and Digital Web Manager for the CBS Seattle Cluster.
Her bio includes 32 years in various on-air,
programming and management positions for Midwest
Family/Value Radio Corp, Affiliated Broadcasting, EZ
Communications, American Radio Systems, Infinity and
CBS Radio.
She also worked for three years as VP/Programming
and Country Consultant for Broadcast Programming &
the BP Consulting Group in the mid 90’s. Brenner is,
and has been, an active board member for the Country
Radio Broadcasters and CRS for the past ten years
and on the CMA Board for the past six years. She is
a Graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
with a degree in Radio-TV-Film. For multiple years
running, Brenner has been selected as one of the Top
PD's in America according to Radio Ink and is a
multi-year honoree as Radio Ink’s #1 Country
Programmer.
Albright and O'Malley serves stations across North
America. Partners Jaye Albright and Mike O'Malley
first merged their consulting companies in 1995.
Albright's career includes VP/Country Drake Chenault
Enterprises, General Manager of BP Consulting Group,
Country Format Captain of Jacor and then Clear
Channel Communications, VP Country McVay Media,
major market management, programming, talent and
news direction. She has been named country
consultant of the year multiple times by Radio Ink,
Billboard Magazine, Radio & Records, TV’s Radio
Music Awards judges and is a member of the Country
Radio Hall Of Fame. Prior to consulting, O'Malley's
20+ years in radio included programming stations in
Baltimore and Washington, DC as well as flipping
then NBC's WYNY New York City to country in 1987 and
programming it through 1992. He was also National
Research Director for Metroplex in the 1980’s and
was recently named one of America's Top Consultants
by Radio Ink Magazine.
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