SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that KNBR 1050 and 1370 KZSF will continue serving as the club’s radio broadcast stations in English and Spanish, respectively. KNBR 1050 will be the English radio home of the Quakes for the third consecutive season, while KZSF “La Kaliente” will be the team’s Spanish-language flagship for the ninth season in a row.
KNBR maintains one of the strongest reputations in American sports radio and also serves as a radio partner for both the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers. In addition to broadcasting all Quakes matches, KNBR 1050 will continue to host The Soccer Hour, presented by the San Jose Earthquakes, every Wednesday night from 7-8 p.m.
KNBR’s broadcast team will include the familiar faces, and voices, of Ted Ramey and Joe Cannon. Ramey will serve as the primary play-by-play voice for home and away broadcasts for the sixth consecutive year, while Cannon will serve as the color analyst for home matches.
Ramey started out in the professional world of broadcasting in 2009, working for the San Francisco Giants postgame show, and has worked his way to the top of the Bay Area media world. Ramey’s play-by-play resume includes work for soccer, hockey, football, track and field, and CrossFit. He has been a talk show personality in the Bay Area since 2012 and has been hosting the San Jose Earthquakes’ Soccer Hour on KNBR 1050 since 2016. Ramey is a sports and traffic anchor for KCBS Radio and has been the morning sports anchor for “The Lamont and Tonelli Show” since 2012.
Any unforeseen timing conflicts throughout the season will see the Quakes move from KNBR 1050 to KSFO 560.
Cannon returns to the KNBR 1050 broadcasting booth for his sixth year after being inducted into the San Jose Earthquakes Hall of Fame in 2017. He started his Earthquakes playing career in 1999, helped San Jose win its first MLS Cup in 2001 and later captured MLS Goalkeeper of the Year honors in 2002. During his career, Cannon spent seven seasons with the Quakes and still leads the club’s goalkeeping records in games started (171), minutes played (15,561), wins (66) and saves (693).
1370 KZSF is a locally-owned Spanish-language station that hosts daily sports talk shows and also plays a wide variety of pop-music.
Carlos Cesar Rivera returns as the Spanish-language broadcaster for the Earthquakes for his 12th consecutive season. Rivera hosts La Kaliente’s sports talk show from 5–7 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, which covers MLS and Liga MX, as well as many other sports teams in the Bay Area. He also anchors the morning show on La Kaliente. Rivera came to the Earthquakes with a distinguished sports broadcasting background, having called games for the San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants and the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks during his lengthy career.
Joining Carlos Cesar Rivera in the radio booth for the first time is club legend Ramiro Corrales. Corrales wrote and rewrote the Earthquakes’ record books during his playing career, which included stints with the club from 1996-97, 2001-04 and 2008-13. Among all players in Quakes history, he ranks second in games played (250), games started (228) and minutes played (20,188), third in shots (270) and sixth in assists (32). Corrales was inducted into the Earthquakes Hall of Fame in 2015.
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