SureWest Sports Show Teams With ESPN 1320 AM for Sacramento Region High School Football Radio Show

ROSEVILLE, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) today announced the launch of the SureWest Sports Radio Show on ESPN 1320 AM, a one-hour spotlight on high school football programs throughout the Sacramento region.

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An extension of the popular SureWest Sports TV program, the SureWest Sports Radio Show airs on ESPN 1320 AM each Saturday from 9-10 a.m., with the first show scheduled for this Saturday, September 4.

SureWest Sports Show's Mike Finnerty will host the new radio program, with regular weekly contributions from some of the most influential and knowledgeable sources in the Sacramento high school sports scene, including head coaches from around the region and high school sports writers Joe Davidson (Sacramento Bee), Jon Gudel (Elk Grove Citizen) and Bill Hicks (Grapevine Independent). The show will recap the previous night's games and preview next week's match-ups. Finnerty will also rank his top 15 Sacramento-area football teams in a weekly segment called the "Finnerty 15."

"The response to the SureWest Sports TV Show, which launched over a year ago, has been overwhelming," said Finnerty. "I talk to kids, coaches and families everyday, and they always want more coverage. The weekly one-hour radio show with ESPN 1320 is a great extension of our TV program and allows us to dig deeper into the Sacramento's high school sports scene to whet the appetites of our die-hard high school sports fans."

"Utilizing our relationship with the SureWest Sports Show and Mike Finnerty allows ESPN 1320 to now provide even more in-depth high school football coverage on the area's most popular sports radio station," said Brian Lopez, ESPN 1320's program director. "Mike and his guests on the show bring a unique and unparalleled amount of knowledge and passion for high school sports in Sacramento and we are excited to have them on ESPN 1320."

In addition to the weekly one-hour radio program, the SureWest Sports Show and Mike Finnerty will continue their regular high school sports updates on ESPN 1320 AM. These updates include one-minute spots that air several times a day on the station and a weekly audio Podcast available on the ESPN 1320 homepage at www.espn1320.net. The Podcast features previews, recaps and interviews from a wide range of Sacramento's high school sports programs.

Launched in February of 2009, the SureWest Sports Show is a weekly 30-minute youth and high school sports TV program that can be viewed on channel 702 on SureWest digital TV and online at www.surewestsports.com. Airing every Wednesday at 7 p.m. with replays throughout the week, the SureWest Sports Show is the only Sacramento area show to feature both youth and high school sports and consists of scores, highlights and interviews from games around the region as well as weekly awards. Fans can view new and archived shows, sign up for Twitter and Facebook alerts, and see where the show will be next at www.surewestsports.com.

ESPN 1320 (KCTC) is an affiliate of the nationally syndicated ESPN Radio. Locally, ESPN 1320 features a weekday lineup that includes Mike & Mike, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, The Scott Van Pelt Show, The Dan Patrick Show and The Brian Kenny Show. ESPN 1320 is also the Sacramento radio play-by-play home for San Francisco 49ers football, College Football on ESPN Radio, NBA on ESPN Radio (Regular season, Playoffs and NBA Finals) and Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio (Regular season, Divisional Series, League Championship Series and World Series), among other events.

About SureWest

SureWest Communications (www.surewest.com) is a leading integrated communications provider and the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for more than 95 years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008 with the acquisition of Everest Broadband, Inc. and offers bundled residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local and long distance telephone. SureWest was the nation's first provider to launch residential HDTV over an IP network and offers one of the nation's fastest symmetrical Internet services with speeds of up to 50 Mbps in each direction on its fiber-to-the-home network.

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