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Kxly To Split M’S Air Time With Ktrw

Area TV/radio

If the Seattle Mariners open the baseball season next week as scheduled with replacement players, local radio listeners will need to know the time and station.

KXLY-AM (920), which has broadcast the Mariners locally since their first game in 1977, will share the 162-game broadcast schedule with KTRW-AM (970).

KXLY will broadcast Monday’s opening game against Toronto at Dunedin, Fla. (the Blue Jays’ spring training site). Pregame begins at 9:25 a.m. with the game scheduled for 10:05.

KTRW (“The Score”) will carry Tuesday’s game against the Jays, also 9:25 a.m. pregame and 10:05 first pitch.

Under the partnership agreement KTRW will broadcast up to 50 Mariners games. KXLY will air the remaining 112. The partnership was formed to alleviate programming conflicts, said George Kessler, KXLY AM-FM radio sales manager.

“This unique agreement provides an opportunity for both of us to do what we do best,” Kessler said. KXLY wants to continue its newstalk programming, he said, and the Mariners are a “natural product for an all-sports station like ‘The Score.”’

Kessler said each game and its corresponding time and station will be announced well ahead of each broadcast.

The Spokesman-Review will carry the listings daily on page 2.

“This is a great cooperative effort to give live coverage to all Mariners games,” said Brian Paul, KTRW general manager.

Score Central moving

Paul Seebeck’s Score Central local sports talk show on KTRW is moving to a new time slot, thank you very much.

Seebeck, who hosts Spokane’s call-in sports show, is leaving the 5 to 7 p.m. drive-time slot. Beginning April 10, Seebeck’s show will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Dave Spencer, KTRW programming director, cited two reasons for the move. Seebeck’s show will be sandwiched between two popular national hosts, The Fabulous Sports Babe (7-11 a.m.) and Papa Joe Chevalier (1-5 p.m.).

In addition, Spencer said there would be at least 40 conflicts with the Mariners in Seebeck’s previous time slot. Now there will be 10 conflicts.

Ellison featured on Fox

Washington State sophomore basketball player Donminic Ellison is featured in a 1-hour television documentary Sunday entitled Hardwood Dreams, 7 p.m., on Fox (Channel 28, cable channel 3, in Spokane).

The documentary, narrated by actor Wesley Snipes, chronicles the aspirations and hardships of five starting members of the Morningside High School (Inglewood, Calif.) basketball team. The five members include Ellison, Stais Boseman (Southern California), Corey Saffold (Long Beach State), Dwight Curry (Los Angeles Junior College) and Sean Harris (San Diego State).

The film begins in the fall of 1992 in the wake of the Los Angeles riots.