David Barron reported earlier this week that KILT-610 personality David Dalati will be making the jump to the new sports talk station (KBME-790) that will be launching in a couple of weeks. Dalati will apparently do sports reporting and provide updates for the new station, much the same job he filled at KILT. He’ll join KILT-ex Charlie Pallilo.
So far, the new KBME seems to be playing up its ESPN affiliation (especially Dan Patrick) and skimming the best available talent from KILT (Mark Vandermeer is staying at KILT, but presumably is bound to the station as part of his package deal with the Texans).
Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that either station is likely to take a chance and mold itself in the image of Dallas’ Ticket. One had hoped Houston might be able to do better than average local hosts sandwiched around national talkers like Dan Patrick or Jim Rome. I know The Hardline is a bit much too expect, but a person can hope.
Maybe we’ll be pleasantly surprised. A little competition in sports talk surely can’t hurt.
