By David Barron
Houston sports radio station KILT (610 AM) https://www.radio.com/sportsradio610 was ranked as the 16th-best major market sports station in the country in a recent survey published by Barrett Sports Media. https://barrettsportsmedia.com/
The consulting company said its rankings for 2020 were based on listenership, talent performance, local market impact and other factors.

KILT was the only one of the three Houston all-sports stations to be ranked in the major market top 20, which was led by WBZ-FM in Boston, followed by WIP-FM in Philadelphia and WFAN-FM in New York. KRLD-FM in Dallas was ranked seventh and KTCK-AM-FM in Dallas was ranked eighth.
Among individual rankings, KILT program director Armen Williams was ranked 12th in his category, and Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast of KILT were 14th among major market morning drive time shows. Sean Salisbury of KBME (790 AM) https://sportstalk790.iheart.com/ was ranked 17th in the morning drive category. No other local shows made top 20 lists in morning drive, midday and afternoon drive.