After its round of layoffs on Wednesday, Cumulus Media Sports 680 KNBR/104.5 KNBR-FM has announced the addition of John Dickinson to serve as Golden State Warrior insider and to host post-game and Saturday morning shows.
Dickinson will host “Dubs OT” on KNBR/KNBR-FM, Twitch and YouTube after every Golden State Warriors game and “Just Dubs” on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. He joins KNBR after departing Audacy’s “95.7 The Game” KGMZ earlier this week after twelve years at the station. He served as Warriors reporter and pre and post-game show host at KGMZ for his entire tenure and also spent time as a beat reporter for the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders and MLB’s San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics. He also spent a decade at KHTK Sacramento covering the Kings from 2001 to 2011.
KNBR is pleased to announce the hiring of John Dickinson as the new host of KNBR’s “Dubs OT, which will air after every Warriors game, starting Thursday night following Warriors-Clippers. “Dubs OT” will also stream after every game on YouTube and Twitch, even in the event of Giants or 49ers airing on KNBR.
In addition to the postgame show, Dickinson will serve as Warriors Insider, and will host a Saturday Warriors-themed show “Just Dubs” on KNBR and streaming on YouTube and Twitch from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. He will also contribute Warriors, 49ers and Giants content.
Dickinson has been a staple of Bay Area sports radio since 2011.
With over 20 years of on-air hosting, reporting, digital and social media experience in Northern California, “JD” has been a traveling reporter/host on the Warriors beat beginning in 2011 and hosted pre and post game shows since 2017. He’s carried a similar role on the 49ers beat including traveling for game coverage since 2019. JD also covered the Giants on a regular basis from 2011-2019 and spent time on the Raiders/A’s beats over that same span.
His experience includes coverage of six NBA Finals, three Super Bowls, three World Series and a Stanley Cup Final. He began his career while in college in Sacramento in 2001 covering the Kings on a regular basis until 2011.
