SportsTalk Live (NBC Sports Bay Area)

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SportsTalk Live is a television sports discussion series that airs on NBC Sports Bay Area in the United States.

NBC Sports Bay Area is an American regional sports network that is owned as a joint venture between NBCUniversal and the San Francisco Giants, and operates as an affiliate of NBC Sports Group. Headquartered in San Francisco, the channel broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. NBCS Bay Area's sister channel is NBC Sports California. The president of the network is Ted Griggs.

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The TV show began in 2009. It was originally titled Chronicle Live (2009–13), and then [1] Yahoo! SportsTalk Live (in 2013), broadcasting on the station formerly known as Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area on Comcast Sportsnet California.

At its inception, it was hosted by veteran Bay Area sportscaster Greg Papa, well known as being the radio voice of the Oakland Raiders. As of 2019, it was hosted by Jim Kozimor. [2]

Greg Papa American sportscaster

Gregory Charles Papa is the current play by play sportscaster for the San Francisco 49ers. He has also broadcast for the Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants.

Oakland Raiders National Football League franchise in Oakland, California

The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football franchise based in Oakland, California. The Raiders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. Founded on January 30, 1960, they played their first regular season game on September 11, 1960, as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) which merged with the NFL in 1970.

Jim Kozimor is the play-by-play announcer for the Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes on NBC Sports California, NBC Sports Bay Area on television and KLIV 1590 for games televised nationally on radio. In addition, Kozimor also serves as an anchor for SportsNet Central at CSN Bay Area. Kozimor was a television and radio personality for the Sacramento Kings and the Sacramento Monarchs. His duties for the Kings included hosting the warm-up and wrap-up show House Party Live and occasional radio calls of the game on The Kings' Radio Network. Kozimor additionally hosted Kings Talk and the nightly Jim Kozimor ShowGram on KHTK, 1140 AM. For the Monarchs he similarly hosted the weekly Monarchs Talk show and served as the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the team.

History

The show was announced in February 2009, as part of a revamping of the CSN Bay Area lineup. Previously, the channel (then Fox Sports Net Bay Area) was mainly just for airing local sports telecasts and FSN original programming. When the channel was re-launched in April 2008 as CSN Bay Area, plans were announced to have a news show for all Bay Area sports. It was then announced that sports talk show would premiere as well, and would be hosted by Greg Papa. The show is named for the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, as the show's panel is composed primarily of columnists from the Chronicle. However, writers from the MediaNews Group (mainly the San Jose Mercury News, Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times) and the Sacramento Bee also frequent the show.

<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> newspaper serving the San Francisco Bay area

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California in the United States. It was founded in 1865 as The Daily Dramatic Chronicle by teenage brothers Charles de Young and Michael H. de Young. The paper is owned by the Hearst Corporation, which bought it from the de Young family in 2000. It is the only major daily paper covering the city and county of San Francisco.

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The show premiered on April 6, 2009 along with the news show (Sportsnet Central). Like the launch of CSN Bay Area itself a year earlier, this was intentionally set at the same time as the start of the baseball season. The show is thought to be the first of its kind in the Bay Area.

Subjects

Half of the show's purpose is to discuss Bay Area news and results of the main pro and college teams. For example, in the first month, topics such as the start of the season for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics baseball teams, the playoff run for the San Jose Sharks and the conclusion of the season for the Golden State Warriors were discussed. The later half of 2009 was mostly dominated by the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders. The other half of the show's purpose is to interview a large variety of Bay Area sports personalities. Often this will be coaches and players of teams currently playing. All of the main pro teams (The Giants, A's, Sharks, Warriors, Raiders and 49ers) have been represented, as well as UC Berkeley, Stanford, San Jose State and other local college teams for various sports.

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Regular guests

Tim Kawakami is the editor-in-chief for the San Francisco Bay Area edition of The Athletic, a subscription-based, sports journalism website. Previously, he was a sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. In addition to his print column, he maintained a blog, communicated on Twitter, and had a podcast series. He was named the California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in 2013. He also appeared regularly on television on Comcast SportsNet Bay Area.

Ann Killion is an American sports journalist and author. She has written for Sports Illustrated, San Francisco Chronicle, Comcast Sportsnet, San Jose Mercury News, and The Los Angeles Times. She is the co-author of two books with Olympic gold medalists: Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big & Believe in Yourself with Jennie Finch and Solo: A Memoir of Hope with Hope Solo.

Ray Ratto has been a San Francisco Bay Area sportswriter since the 1970s and a sports columnist since the 1980s. A lifelong resident of Alameda, California, he was a Senior Insider for the TV station NBC Sports Bay Area from 2010 to 2019, and wrote columns for their website. He has also written national columns for espn.com as well as CBS' sportsline.com. Beginning his column-writing career for two now-defunct newspapers, The National and the Peninsula Times Tribune, Ratto later became a staff writer then a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner and then the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to TV. He has also co-hosted radio shows on both KNBR and KGMZ-FM. Ratto was a regular on the NBC Sports Bay Area show "The Happy Hour" before his contract was terminated. He is currently a contributor at Deadspin and also writes columns for the San Jose Mercury News. Ratto is one of 60 sportswriters whose ranking of college football teams makes up the AP Poll.

Other

Substitute hosts

When Greg Papa had a scheduling conflict (such as a Raiders game) or was on vacation, notable fill-in hosts included:

Kozimor eventually became the show's full-time host.[ when? ]

On the road

Chronicle Live was typically filmed in the CSN Bay Area's studios in San Francisco, but the show has moved to other sites for special events. These have included:

During these specials, the guests would almost exclusively be related to the team hosting the event, or related to the event itself.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ ""Yahoo rebrands Comcast's Chronicle Live show" / "Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, strikes new deal with Yahoo Inc."". San Francisco Business Times. Biz Journals. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "SportsTalk Live - About". Facebook. NBC Sports Bay Area. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
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