For Immediate
Release 
Contact:
Jenny Nelson
Contact:
Jenny Nelson
August 18, 2016 VP of Marketing
Entercom
Communications
(650)
906-7112
Entercom Partners with the San Diego
Padres
Presenting Padres Play by Play and Exclusive Padres Content
on San Diego’s KBZT 94.9 FM in 2017
San Diego, CA. August 18, 2016 –Entercom San Diego and the
San Diego Padres officially announce their partnership to bring the 2017 baseball
season, live for the first time on the FM dial, exclusively to KBZT 94.9 FM. Padres’
broadcasters Ted Leitner and Jesse Agler will continue to handle the play by
play duties. Each broadcast will also feature 30 minutes of pre and post-game
coverage during afternoon/evening drive times and weekends.
The San Diego Padres and Entercom are eager to engage fans
through an innovative FM format for the 2017 baseball season. “A partnership
with Entercom’s alternative rock station KBZT 94.9 FM is a perfect way to
attract new fans, and to enhance the fidelity of broadcast for more traditional
sports programming listeners,” said Entercom’s President of Programming, Pat
Paxton. “At the heart of the partnership, is a desire to innovate and evolve broadcasting
to increase accessibility to local content for our listeners and fans.”
Entercom strives to engage their audiences through
meaningful local and live programming, whereby a relationship with San Diego’s
favorite MLB team, is a grand slam. KBZT 94.9 - FM is thrilled to offer another
desirable asset in addition to to their quality music programming. “Baseball is
a great fit for our millennial audience at KBZT,” says Entercom San Diego’s
market manager Bob Bolinger. “It provides the opportunity for us to super serve
our audiences with music and sports, fueling their appetitive for great
entertainment. Short of being at the ball
park or attending a concert, baseball and music will be greatly experienced on
KBZT 94.5FM!”
The partnership also brings Entercom San Diego’s Sunny 98.1
and KSON-FM into the fold for additional cross-promotion and listener engagement,
building value for The Padres, Entercom listeners and clients alike.
"We are very
excited about our partnership with Entercom and the ability to offer Padres
games on the FM dial,"
said Padres Chief Marketing Officer Wayne Partello. "As we aim to connect
with all of San Diego, Entercom San Diego's ability to reach 1.1 million people
per week across all of their stations will play a large part in these
efforts."
About
Entercom
Entercom Communications Corp.
(NYSE: ETM) founded in 1968 and Philadelphia based, is the fourth-largest radio
broadcasting company in the US with a portfolio of 124 highly rated radio
stations in 27 top markets across the country. Laser focused on investing in
local communities, content and talent, our brands reach and engage with 40
million people a week. We are known for developing unique and highly
successful locally programmed stations, delivering a curated mix of outstanding
local personalities and a broad range of compelling music, news, talk and
sports content.
With the integration of
SmartReach Digital into our product suite, we deliver unparalleled ROI by
connecting brands to audiences through our branded sites and over 1,000 events a year. More information is available at www.Entercom.com, Facebook and Twitter (@entercom).
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