790 The Ticket is tinkering with its lineup as it prepares for its first season of Marlins baseball.
With Jon Sciambi soon leaving his talk show to concentrate on play-by-play, 790's Jorge Sedano will move his program two hours later, to noon to 3 p.m, beginning April 7.
The 10 a.m.-to-noon slot will be handled by Kevin Rogers, who has had ratings success from 7 to 10 p.m. ''Kevin deserves an opportunity to move to a prime day part,'' station manager Howard Davis said. ``Sedano will be a good lead in to Dan Le Batard.''
Meanwhile, Sciambi's producer -- Jonathan Zaslow -- was named host on the talk show that will follow Marlins games, generally from 10 p.m. to midnight. His program will run 7 to 10 p.m. on nights without Marlins games.
The Ticket's Dos Amigos Show with Alan Strauss and Larry Milian will air 10 p.m. to midnight on nights without Marlins games and midnight to 2 a.m. others nights.
Sciambi said it would have been difficult to juggle a talk show with 112 Braves games and 65 annual events for ESPN.
• For the first time since the team's inception in 1993, the Marlins will not be on WQAM. Not only was WQAM losing about $1 million a year on the contract, but the Dolphins asked the station not to retain the Marlins because that usually would have preempted the weeknight Dolphins show.
As part of the Marlins' new deal with 790 -- which has a marketing partnership with The Miami Herald -- the Marlins will sell the ads during the broadcasts but keep most of the ad revenue.
''We're finally on a station that likes sports, that likes the Marlins,'' president David Samson told fans at a town-hall meeting last month.
(WQAM general manager Joe Bell declined to respond to Samson's comments.)
• Manager Fredi Gonzalez agreed to do a weekly show with Sedano that will air 11 a.m. next Wednesday and 1 p.m. all subsequent Wednesdays (when Sedano's show switches time slots). Marlins executives Larry Beinfest and Michael Hill will alternate on a weekly segment with Sid Rosenberg at 8:30 a.m. Mondays.
• The Marlins told WFTL-640 AM that it would be violating MLB rules if it goes ahead with plans to air the Yankees broadcast of Friday's Yankees-Marlins game, and would face legal action if it does. 790 will carry the Marlins' broadcast. WFTL was noncommittal about its plans.
DOLPHINS SPEAK
Jim Mandich has dubbed WQAM's Dolphins All Access show Dolphins No Access because the team hasn't provided interviews with players, coaches or executives the past three months. There are now discussions about cutting the program to one hour because of the difficulties of sustaining a two-hour Dolphins show during the offseason.
Meanwhile, the Dolphins -- who have said practically nothing publicly for more than a month -- finally will speak next week, with coach Tony Sparano doing his first interview in seven weeks. General manager Jeff Ireland might also speak.
Dolphins representative Harvey Greene said nobody from the team has been available to discuss any football-related matter with local media for several weeks (except Bill Parcells' denial of yahoo.com's Jason Taylor story) because the coaching and front-office staffs have been busy with free agency and the draft (which obviously should be the priority) and because the team was crafting a media policy, which was completed last week.
A few things fans should expect:
• Don't expect to hear much from Parcells. He politely relayed that he believes Ireland should be the one commenting on the team's personnel decisions. Parcells did a rare interview last week, with New York Daily News NFL writer Gary Myers, in which he disclosed he was operating under the belief that Miami would keep the No. 1 draft pick.
• The Dolphins will allow their assistant coaches to speak for feature stories only, but assistants reserve the right to decline.
• The Dolphins haven't decided which minicamp or training camp practices will be open to the public. Unlike last year, the media will be prohibited from the locker-room during minicamps and training camp, but players will be allowed to speak on the field.
AROUND THE DIAL
• CBS has made a few questionable calls in switching between NCAA Tournament games in the past eight days. The most outrageous was the decision to briefly take us away from live action in the UM-St. Mary's game on three occasions last Friday -- all to see snippets of other games. The home team's market should be able to see every second of the home team's game.
• ESPN likely will televise the Miami football game at Florida on Sept. 6 because CBS has U.S. Open tennis all day. But a start time hasn't been determined. . . . UM hasn't received word if any of the ESPN networks will carry the Hurricanes' first game at Dolphin Stadium (Thursday night Aug. 28 against Charleston Southern). . . .
No joke: Largely because of Tim Tebow's popularity, ESPN will carry the Gators' spring game at 1 p.m. April 12, with Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit on the call. A two-hour edition of College GameDay will precede it. . . . Comcast Sports Southeast will televise UM's spring football game at 10 a.m. Saturday.
• WIOD Heat announcer Mike Inglis has missed games the past week because of personal issues, but is expected back Sunday. . . . There will be no local TV for Heat games vs. Detroit on April 6 and at Cleveland on April 13. Both were dropped by ABC.
• TBS -- which will be carrying a national Sunday afternoon baseball package -- hired Ron Darling and Buck Martinez as alternating analysts, with play-by-play voice Chip Caray. . . . Former Marlins announcer Dave O'Brien said he relinquished his duties as ESPN's lead soccer announcer to expand his workload of Boston Red Sox games on radio. On MLS games, JP Dellacamera is replacing O'Brien, who will continue to announce baseball and college basketball for ESPN.
• Parcells, Bob Knight and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa will appear on a unique ESPN Sunday Conversation on SportsCenter at 10:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday.
