Metro Sports
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Metro Sports is a regional sports network serving the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. It launched on December 12, 1996 and is currently seen on several local cable systems.
Metro Sports produces live sporting events for professional sports teams such as the Kansas City Wizards and Kansas City Brigade. Metro Sports also produces live sporting events for college sports conferences such as the Big 12 Conference, Mountain West Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, and the Summit League. In addition, local NAIA and high school teams are also shown on the network. Metro also carried many Kansas City Royals games from 2003 to 2007, after which it lost the rights to FSN Midwest.
Metro also airs "The Metro Sports Report" as part of the nightly newscast on CBS affiliate KCTV in Kansas City and has published a book, More Than The Score: Kansas City Sports Memories.
The Metro Sports-produced "Fantasy Huddle", a weekly Fantasy Football show, is also distributed to other Time Warner Cable systems nationwide. [1]
The Kansas City Wizards Major League Soccer games are simulcast using a secondary audio program channel in Spanish.
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[edit] Carriage
Metro Sports is available on Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and Sunflower Cable in metropolitan Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas. As of August 30, 2008, it was available in approximately 400,000 households.
[edit] Regular shows
- High School Roundup (10 p.m. Friday)
- Metro Sports Zone (10 p.m. Monday through Thursday)
- Metro Sports Talk with Leif Lisec (6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday)
- Metro Sports Sunday
- Metro Sports Saturday Scoreboard
- Basketball and Football Coaches shows featuring the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Iowa State University.
- ESPNEWS (daytime and overnight)
- Total Access
- Wizards Weekly
- Fantasy Huddle
- Braggin' Rights
- Brigade Weekly
- UMKC Coaches Shows
[edit] Special events
- Kansas City Sports Commission Banquet
- Simone Awards
- Win for KC Banquet
[edit] Executive staff
- John Denison, General Manager/Executive Director
- Steve Kurtenbach, Executive Producer
- John Sprugel, Assistant General Manager
- Cheryl Graham, Business Manager
- Kathy Nelson, Promotions/Marketing Director
[edit] On-Air Staff
- Dave Stewart, Metro Sports Zone Anchor
- Leif Lisec, KCTV 5 Anchor/Metro Sports Talk Anchor
- Mick Shaffer, Sports Anchor/Reporter
- Brad Porter, Sports Anchor/Reporter, Host of Wizards Weekly
- Erin Bajackson, Anchor/Reporter
- Chris Gough, Reporter/Photographer, Host of Braggin' Rights, Host of Fantasy Huddle
- Erik Ashel, Anchor/Reporter
- Kennetra Pulliams, Anchor/Reporter
- Herbie Teope, Co-Host of Fantasy Huddle
- Dave Neilson, Co-Host of Fantasy Huddle
[edit] Announcers
- Kevin Wike, play-by-play
- Stan Weber, Football/Basketball Analyst
- Brian McRae, Baseball Analyst
- Richard Baldinger, Football Analyst
- J.C. Pearson, Football Analyst
- Matt Wheeler, High School Analyst
- Danan Hughes, Football Analyst
- Doug Elstun, Basketball Analyst
- Patti Phillips, Basketball Analyst
- Greg Gurley, Basketball Analyst
[edit] Metro Sports Alumni
- Neil Harwell, Former Metro Sports GM
- Duke Frye, Anchor (1996-2000)
- Danyelle Sargent, Anchor/Reporter (2002-2004)
[edit] External links
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