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Posted at 6:27 p.m., Friday, March 30, 2007

Ken Wilson joins ESPN 1420 with weekly baseball show

Advertiser Staff

Longtime broadcaster Ken Wilson will join Honolulu's ESPN 1420 providing Major League Baseball analysis, including a weekly show on Fridays, starting April 6, the station announced today.

Wilson, who began his professional baseball broadcasting career calling Hawaii Islanders games in the 1970s, also will be a contributor to ESPN 1420's two local daily talk shows.

He will host a one-hour weekly show, "Wilson On Baseball," every Friday at 2 p.m. The show will highlight the station's coverage of San Francisco Giants baseball and the station's ESPN Sunday Night Baseball games.

Wilson will continue to be the voice of Hawaii Winter Baseball.

Wilson broadcast 22 seasons of Major League Baseball on radio and television for the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Oakland Athletics.