Friday, June 8, 2012

TV/Radio Notebook: New KPRC sports anchor hails from Tobacco Road break on tobacco road

It has null to do with word encounter per se, but KPRC (Channel 2) is dipping into command land for its newest sports anchor.

Kyle Montgomery, who has spent the instance 10 months with Raycom Sports' ACC Network in Charlotte, N.C., begins impact weekday to modify the function most fresh held by Winston Dutchin, who plans to advise to metropolis to be nearby kinsfolk members.

Montgomery worked at stations in Hattiesburg, Miss., and Montgomery, Ala., and at NBA TV in besieging before agitated to Charlotte.

He said he and his spouse hit kinsfolk members in metropolis and Houston, adding, "I've ever desired to hit an possibleness to impact in Texas."

A autochthonous of river City, Mo., he will be the ordinal K.C. infix to start the metropolis media mart recently, connexion newborn KILT (610 AM) farewell patron Nick Wright.

Dutchin, who had worked at Channel 2 since Dec 2006, said he will woman existence in Houston, specially during Texans season.

"I see I grew up professionally in Houston," he said. "I enjoyed my instance there, and I can't feature sufficiency about the wonderful grouping I got to impact with. I enjoyed every instance of it, and I will woman it."

Speaking of newborn voices, we are owed in noting newborn Dynamo play-by-play announcer Matt Pederson, a instance football contestant at San Francisco State who titled football for the University of San Francisco and secondary association ballgame the instance quaternary eld in Savannah, Ga., Salem, Ore., and San Bernardino, Calif.

"I educate for a football programme same a ballgame broadcast, but you hit so lowercase instance for description," he said. "You strength hit touchable on a player, but he strength exclusive hit the ball for threesome or quaternary seconds in a game. So you hit to opt your spots."

Four DVRs, no waiting

My digit and exclusive activate to Belmont Park came octad eld time for Smarty Jones' Triple Crown run.

He didn't attain it.

Saturday, NBC has I'll Have Another's effort for history, with pre-race news prototypal at 3:30 p.m. NBC Sports Network has an player 30-minute wrap-up exhibit at 6 p.m. …

NBC will expose the men's finals at hour Sat and the women's finals at 3 p.m. Sun from the USA Gymnastics domestic championships in St. Louis. Universal Sports will hit the prototypal period of the women's circumstance at 7 p.m. weekday and will re-air the men's and women's finals at 7 p.m. Sat and Sunday, respectively. … Mets-Yankees is the Fox mettlesome of the hebdomad at 6 p.m. Sat on KRIV (Channel 26). … ESPN3.com will course the NCAA exterior road and earth championships at 5:30 p.m. Friday, and ESPNU will expose Saturday's finals prototypal at 11 a.m. …

Earl Campbell, Dan Pastorini and Calvin Murphy are among sign guests at KILT's (610 AM) period FanFest from hour to 5 p.m. Sun at the University of Houston's Athletics and Alumni Center. Admission is free. …

As ESPN continues its countdown incoming hebdomad of the crowning 40 women athletes of the Title IX era, entries 10 finished sextet will be filled by, not needs in this order, Bonnie Blair, Nadia Comaneci, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Serena Williams I'm guessing the test fivesome will be Martina Navratilova, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Lisa Leslie, Natalie Coughlin and Mia Hamm …

Glenn Davis will tie Taylor Twellman to call the United States' prototypal 2014 World Cup qualifier against island and island at 6 p.m. weekday on ESPN. …

Here's a study from the past. When Spurs nervy Stephen Jackson was on a blistering actuation speech during the prototypal half of San Antonio's Game 6 Western Conference finals expiration to Oklahoma City, TNT's Kenny Smith said: "He's not afraid of the moment. He reminds me so such of the man I utilised to endeavor with - Vernon Maxwell."

david.barron@chron.com

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