With seven Emmy Awards and thirteen Nominations, the Sacramento Kings Broadcast Team has elevated its television production to one of the highest levels in all of professional sports. For the sixth straight season the Kings Broadcast Team will produce all local regular season games on Comcast SportsNet. And for the sixth straight season all home games will be delivered in High Definition.

COMCAST SPORTSNET: Kings Cable Flagship
Comcast SportsNet enters its sixth season of a 10-year alliance with the Kings and will air all 82 broadcasts from the season opener in Oklahoma City on October 28 to the season finale in Los Angeles against the Lakers on April 13, 2010. Grant Napear and Jerry Reynolds will provide the game call while Kayte Christensen will provide reports from courtside. In addition to producing all of the team's radio and television network broadcasts, the Kings also manage all advertising and sponsorship sales for their broadcasts.

KHTK SPORTS 1140AM: Kings Radio Flagship
The region's 50,000-watt flagship radio station, KHTK, will once again broadcast all 90 Kings games in 2008-2009. The "G-Man", Gary Gerould, enters his 24th year (over 1800 games) as the voice of the Kings.

Visit Sports 1140 KHTK.

The "Kings Live" Pregame show, packed full of interviews and features, rolls through your radio 30 minutes prior to tip. The "Kings Live" postgame show, powered by live fan calls and locker room reaction, takes you home for 30 minutes after the game. Your hosts of the show are the rock solid Jason Ross and the dynamic Kayte Christensen.

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GARY GEROULD
Radio Play-By-Play

Entering his 25th season with the Kings and having called 1,900 Kings games, Gary Gerould has been the "Voice of the Kings" since the team's arrival in Sacramento (1985) as radio play-by-play announcer on the club's flagship station KHTK (1140 AM). Gerould is widely considered one of the best play-by-play announcers in all of sports broadcasting. Game 7 of the 2004 Western Conference Semifinals versus Minnesota marked Gerould's 1,500th Kings broadcast. He is among the top five in longevity among NBA broadcasters.

Gerould's workload is a direct testimony of his talent and work ethic. In addition to his basketball duties with the Kings, he currently works the $50 million NHRA drag racing tour for ESPN Television. This follows 25 years of covering the Indy car circuit as a pit reporter for world-wide events, including the Indy 500. He has been a part of more than 1,500 nationally televised events, with the 1,500th coming at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis.

Gerould was a member of the Turner Broadcast Network telecast of the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. Prior to joining ABC, Gerould spent 11 years at NBC and was a member of the network's coverage team at the XXIV Olympic Games in Seoul. He also served as a regular NFL play-by-play announcer in addition to his motor sports duties.

Gerould's broadcasting career dates back to his high school days in Midland, Mich., as a play-by-play announcer for the local radio station. In 2000, he was inducted into the Midland Hall of Fame. A speech and physical education graduate of Anderson (Indiana) University, Gerould headed west to Chico, Calif., in 1963 where he became the news and sports director at KHSL Radio.

In 1965, he moved to Sacramento and joined the sports department at KCRA-TV, where he worked for 12 years. During that span he also was the play-by-play announcer for Sacramento State football and basketball. In 1977, he formed Gary Gerould Enterprises and since then has freelanced as a public relations consultant, commercial spokesman, and motor sports writer and broadcaster.

He and his wife, Marlene, have a daughter, Beth, and a son, Bob, who also enjoys a career in professional sports broadcasting.

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GRANT NAPEAR
Television Play-By-Play

Grant Napear enters his 22nd season announcing for the Kings, serving as the television play-by-play announcer for the Kings Broadcast Network. The 50-yearold Syosset, New York native has called Kings action as the team's play-by-play announcer from 1988-89 through 1993-94 and 1998-1999 to present, in addition to three campaigns (1995-96 - 1997-98) as the Kings' radio play-by-play announcer on KHTK (1140 AM). He is the current daily host for the top-rated afternoon sports talk show in the Sacramento area on KHTK.

Prior to joining the Kings Broadcast Network talent team on a full-time basis, Napear served as the sports director at the then-Kings' flagship television station, Channel 31, for nine years (1987-95). Napear's play-by-play experience includes working with ESPN Radio, the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks, the Sacramento Gold Miners (1992-94), a former member of the Canadian Football League, and most recently with the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League. Napear was the television voice for the Oakland Raiders from 2003-07. He is currently a fill-in host for the

nationally syndicated radio Jim Rome Show.

Napear began his professional career as a weekend sports anchor at WAND-TV in Decatur, Illinois. He spent his collegiate years (1977-81) as the play-by-play announcer for the football, basketball and hockey teams at his alma mater, Bowling Green University, while pursuing his degree in broadcast journalism. Napear hosts an annual golf tournament to benefit the Future Foundation which enables underprivlidged students to attend college. Napear resides in Folsom with his two sons, Trent (13) and Chase (11).

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JASON ROSS
Radio Pre/Postgame/Halftime Host

Having served in a variety of capacities since 1994, Jason Ross returns for another season as a member of the Maloof Sports & Entertainment broadcast team. Ross has worked as a pregame, halftime and postgame host for the Sacramento Kings and Monarchs, as well as a locker room reporter and game day statistician.

Ross, who currently serves as the sports director for Sports 1140 KHTK AM, which is the flagship station for both the Kings and the Monarchs, is the play-by-play voice of Sacramento State Hornet football and has held that position since 1997. He was also the play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Demons during the only season of the XFL.

A native of Southern California, Ross graduated from UC Davis in 1994 with a degree in rhetoric and communications. He resides in Sacramento with his wife, Alva, and their six-year old son, Jackson.

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KAYTE CHRISTENSEN
Basketball Analyst

Kayte Christensen enters her third year as a member of the Kings broadcast team. Her first two season with the Kings she spent as an anaylst on the pre and post game show House Party Live. She is now the Kings sideline reporter as well as an analyst on the pre and post game radio broadcast. She also co-hosts Kings' Talk, a weekly radio show, alongside Jason Ross., as well as being a frequent contributor to Kings.com.

A former WNBA player with the Phoenix Mercury, Houston Comets and Chicago Sky, the 28-year-old Christensen has worked in a variety of broadcasting capacities, including analyst work for the Phoenix Suns pregame show, co-hosting a daily radio show (which featured frequent guest Charles Barkley), hosting “Nuthin’ But Net”, a weekly webcast for the Phoenix Suns, and as a feature correspondent for MLB.com. She also appeared as the color analyst for the Phoenix Mercury's 2008 season broadcasts featured on FoxAZ and NBATV.

the Phoenix Mercury's 2008 season broadcasts featured on FoxAZ and NBATV. The Northern California native played high school basketball at Modoc High School in Alturas, Calif., where she was named the California Division V Player of the Year in 1998. She then attended UC Santa Barbara where she was a two-time Academic All-American. She also was named the Big West Conference Player of the Year in 2002.

Christensen lives in Natomas with her three dogs, Hektor, Ella and Mischa.

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