KBME (790 AM) said today it will rearrange its sports talk lineup beginning next Monday, moving the syndicated Jay Mohr show to evenings and restoring its all-local lineup from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Matt Thomas will move into the 11 a.m.-2 p.m. slot now filled by the live broadcast of Mohr’s Fox Sports Radio show, and Charlie Pallilo’s show will now air from 2-6 p.m. The delayed broadcast of Mohr’s show will air from 6-9 p.m., where it will face frequent pre-emption by Rockets and Astros games.

The moves have the potential to eliminate what had been a drastic ratings drop for KBME during the Mohr show’s midday timeslot. According to the most recent ratings book from Nielsen Media, the station’s audience share among men 25-54 plummeted from 4.8 between 10 and 11 a.m., the final hour of the Greg Koch-N.D. Kalu show, to 0.2 for the first hour of the Mohr show at 11 a.m.

Bryan Erickson, Clear Channel Houston’s director of AM programming, said in a station news release that the moves reflect “feedback from local sports fans regarding who and what they want to hear on Houston sports talk radio.”

Mohr’s show was added on KBME last August as part of a daylong schedule shift that included the dismissal of morning hosts Matt Jackson and Adam Wexler. The station’s morning shows hosted, respectively, by Lance Zierlein and Adam Clanton and by former NFL linemen Koch and Kalu, have shown improved ratings, but the Mohr show has been a ratings drag at midday and provided inadequate lead-in for the Thomas and Pallilo afternoon shows.

KBME’s decision to air a delayed broadcast of a national show hearkens back to a similar move in 1998, when KILT (610 AM) attempted to tape-delay an hour of the Jim Rome show. Rome and his fans protested loudly, and the station changed its plans. Rome’s show, however, was considerably more popular than the Mohr show has been in Houston.