Mason and Ireland, a 710-AM do-over

If them Spice Girls can gather themselves one more time for a reunion tour, then why not a couple of kooky kids just trying to put on a quality sports-talk show?
The sales staff at all-sports KSPN-AM (710) will be informed today at 4 p.m. to start gearing up to sell airtime for a revival of a Steve Mason and John Ireland co-hosted show beginning Monday, according to station sources.
Will they be big enough to resell 'em as "The Big Show" after all they've gone through? Chew on that for a second.
Mason and Ireland had been the rock steady weekday afternoon drive-time team at the station from 2003, leading in the local ratings, until management decided not to renew Ireland's contract last fall and rearrange the lineup. In late November, Mason was moved to the middays and asked to work with a series of co-hosts, which he has been doing deftly with such sounding boards as Fred Roggin, J.A. Adande and the Kamenetzky brothers.
Word is that Roggin will remain a contributor to Mason and Ireland three times a week. Dave Dameshek, who talked his way into the 710-AM lineup in the 4-to-7 p.m. slot, will stay there.
This will actually the third time Mason and Ireland have been brought back together for a group hug. They spent more than five years doing a sports-talk show at San Diego's XTRA-AM (690) in the mid-90s before Mason left to New York and then did some work on Fox Sports Radio.

Ireland, the longtime KCBS Channel 2/KCAL Channel 9 anchor and Lakers sideline reporter, had been in talks with start-up all-sports station KLAA-AM (830), the Angels-owned station, about doing an afternoon show.
That's Mason and Ireland with Candice Michelle, the GoDaddy.com Super Bowl commercial chick, during an in-studio appearance last year. She's not part of the reunited team. Reportedly.