It's official: Pallilo to move to KBME
David Barron reports that it's now official after 20 days of silence -- former KILT-610 sports talker Charlie Pallilo will be the featured personality on Clear Channel's new sports talk station in Houston, after making a pre-launch stop at his old home, KTRH-740:
Charlie Pallilo is back on the air at KTRH (740 AM), where he will co-anchor SportsBeat until Clear Channel Houston launches its all-sports format on KBME (790 AM) in late December or early January.
Pallilo returned to KTRH, where he worked for more than a decade before joining KILT (610 AM) in September 1999, on Wednesday night. He will remain on KTRH, working with Carl Dukes and Ted DeLuca, until KBME launches, then will work afternoon drive from 3 to 7 p.m. on the rebranded ESPN 790, the "Sports Animal."
"It will be an exciting, challenging enterprise, going from one good company (Infinity Broadcasting, owner of KILT) to another (Clear Channel) that has established its ability to build a good station," Pallilo said. "Having ESPN as the anchor network will open up some possibilities and elements that you can build into a show over time.
"And sometimes, change is a part of life."
The last comment was a reference, in part, to the end of his on-air partnership with Rich Lord. The two worked together at KTRH in the early 1990s and shared the mike for five years on KILT's afternoon drive show.
"We had a great time doing that show together, and I would have no problem ever working with him and other people (at KILT) again," Pallilo said. "I just had to make a decision and decided to take on the challenge of being part of something from square one."
Lord said he and Pallilo "enjoyed a chemistry that's hard to find. The time we worked together is always going to be special to me."
Pallilo, whose contract at KILT expired in September, received an offer from Clear Channel late last month. Infinity had 20 days to match the offer and took Pallilo off the air during that time.
When the 20-day period expired earlier this week, Ken Charles, Clear Channel Houston's director of AM programming, rushed him onto KTRH rather than waiting for KBME's all-sports debut.
"He's the best sports talk host in town," Charles said. "And if we're going to launch this station, we want to launch with the best. We will have ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, Dan Patrick and we wanted Charlie.
Pallilo will be great, but Patrick is awful. Please PLEASE learn from The Ticket in Dallas, and give us interesting personalities talking about local sports and life. Patrick is a cure for insomnia.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/26/04 10:02 AM | Print |
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