I-AA Schools Without Radio Broadcasts

[DFW HOYA]

A discussion on another Patriot League message board asked which schools in the conference did not have broadcast radio coverage of games.

So, the question: among your conference, do all the teams have AM or FM coverage of its games?

[lionsrking2]

All schools in the Southland Conference are on radio.

[coover]

Cal Poly, ESPN Radio 1280 AM, KCPR 91.3 FM

[superman7515]

Delaware - UD's own 91.3 WVUD (also streaming live online) & The Blue Hen Radio Network on 94.7 WDSD

[Sader87]

HC being "radio-less" at this late date is a direct correalation on how little PL football is regarded in Massachusetts. Not that PL football is seen as bad per se but there is simply no connection (outside of Colgate) that interests the general fan in the Central Massachusetts region.

[DotCat]

For football this season, I believe the Catamount Sports Network has a total of seven stations, both AM & FM including two new ones in the Charlotte area.

[SFA 93]

SFA

Q107.7 FM

[Go...gate]

Colgate has its games broadcast on a Utica FM station. WRCU-FM, the campus radio station, inexplicably no longer does the games.

[Twentysix]

NDSU is on alot of stations AM and a few FM.

Anchored by flagship, The Mighty 790, KFGO-AM, the Bison Radio Network has 11 stations including ESPN AM 710 (Bismarck/Day), KFYR AM 550 (Bismarck/Night), KPOK AM 1340 (Bowman), KRCQ FM 102.3 (Detroit Lakes, Minn.), KDVL FM 102.5 (Devils Lake), KHND AM 1470 (Harvey), KHRT AM 1320 (Minot), KZZJ AM 1450 (Rugby), KYCR AM 1570 (Minneapolis), KBMW AM 1450 (Wahpeton) and KEYZ AM 660 (Williston), according to Director of Athletic Broadcasting Jeremy Jorgenson.

Also on KNDS FM 96.3 and maybe some others.

[NHwildEcat]

UNH is on AM/FM all over the state. Just depends on where you are/live. We are lucky this year though as fans because we can attend all the home games/watch all the road games except the Maine game this year...so at the worst we only miss one game. But as mentioned earlier in this we can listen to the game!

[Big Dawg]

I believe every team in the MEAC has a radio broadcast.

FAMU football is broadcast on WHBX 96.1 FM in Tallahassee and on stations throughout Florida. Games used to be broadcast as far north as Tennessee, not sure if FAMU football is still in a lot of the markets we used to be in. Of course, you can listen to every game online as well.

[Redwyn]

Stony Brook Seawolves have 90.1 FM WUSB. Might have an AM station too, forgot the signature.

[darell1976]

96.1 KQHT-Grand Forks (Flagship) Other Stations are: Bismarck KLXX 1270 AM, Devils Lake KDLR 1240 AM, Dickinson KTLC 1460 AM, Fargo WDAY 970 AM, Langdon KYTZ 106.7FM, Mahnomen KRJM 101.5 FM, Minot KRRZ 1390 AM, New Town KMHA 91.3 FM, Williston KDSR 101.1 FM

[Jiggs]

WVSU-FM, 91.1 (flagship)--Birmingham--www.samford.edu/groups/wvsu
WXJC-FM, 92.5--Jasper/Birmingham
WVRV-FM, 101.5--Montgomery
WVRV-FM, 97.5--Pine Level/Troy
WHMA-FM, 95.5--Anniston
WFXO-FM, 105.9--Gadsden/Centre
WTXO-FM, 98.3--Sylacauga/Talladega
WFMH-FM, 95.5--Hamilton/Winfield

[MSUDuo]

The 2010 Bears’ football radio network:
Ava . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KKOZ (92.1 FM/1430 AM)
Jefferson City/Columbia . . . . . . . . . . . . . KJMO (97.5 FM)
Kansas City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KCWJ (1030 AM)
Monett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KKBL (95.9 FM)
Poplar Bluff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KLID (1340 AM)
St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KFNS (100.7 FM), ESPN ((1380 AM), KFSN (590 AM)
Springfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .KTXR (101.3 FM)
Tory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KYRO (1280 AM)
Willow Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KUKU (100.3 FM)

Haven't heard good things about the KC and STL stations as they sometimes leave us off or go out at sundown

[Sly Fox]

I believe the question was which schools do not have radio broadcasts.

As far as I know, all Big South schools have them.

[TheBisonator]

As far as I know, all MVFC schools have some type of network.

[aceinthehole]

Central Connecticut State football and men's basketball broadcats

CCSU ESPN Radio Network
1410 AM - ESPN Radio Hartford
1300 AM - ESPN Radio New Haven

http://www.ccsubluedevils.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17600&ATCLID=1455649

[Sader87]

OK...feel like I'm back at school already...people, the question as posted is essentially asking what FCS teams do NOT have a local commercial AM and/or FM station broadcasting their games. HC currently does not (the local AM station did not re-up the contract this year) and many who follow HC feel it shows how far the program has fallen in terms of local interest.

So, does any other FCS school not have a local commercial AM/FM station covering their games?

[DFW HOYA]

So, does any other FCS school not have a local commercial AM/FM station covering their games?

I checked the Pioneer and all their teams have coverage. The only schools I can confirm w/o radio to date are:

Holy Cross
Georgetown
Sacred Heart

(That group alone ought to get someone in Worcester to buy time for Bob Fouracre on a low-watt AM station.)

[Sader87]

I checked the Pioneer and all their teams have coverage. The only schools I can confirm w/o radio to date are:

Holy Cross
Georgetown
Sacred Heart

(That group alone ought to get someone in Worcester to buy time for Bob Fouracre on a low-watt AM station.)

I just threw up in my mouth...thanks though for the leg-work DFW.

[Sader87]

Well, it was touch and go, but you can scratch HC off that list. WTAG just picked up their football slate....should never have been this dragged out though.

[EIU02]

Eastern Illinois, is broadcast on Hit-Mix 88.9 WEIU in Charleston, IL. Live home TV broadcasts are on WEIU TV which are simulcast with Hit - Mix 88.9 WEIU. WEIU TV broadcasts locally in Central Illinois in 1080i, HD. Bring your "A" game JSU on September 25th to O'Brien Field in Charleston. That will be the defacto OVC championship game. Winner could be the OVC Champ by seasons end. No disrespect EKU.

[jimbo65]

Fordham has WFUV 90.7 FM broadcast the games. This is the station that spawned Vince Scully, Michael Kay, Mike Breen & many others into sports broadcating.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Well, it was touch and go, but you can scratch HC off that list. WTAG just picked up their football slate....should never have been this dragged out though.

It would have been ludicrous for the PL champion not to have its games broadcast. A couple of years ago the station that carried Lafayette switched to a Spanish format or something and these was a question about who would pick up the games, but another station finally did. That said, with changing dynamics, all these games are going to be switching to the internet as the principal media anyhow. But did you really think a UMass/Holy Cross game would not be broadcast in Central Massachusetts?

[DFW HOYA]

It would have been ludicrous for the PL champion not to have its games broadcast. A couple of years ago the station that carried Lafayette switched to a Spanish format or something and these was a question about who would pick up the games, but another station finally did.

Being one of two I-AA outliers in this conversation, Georgetown hasn't had broadcast coverage in 32 seasons. (Sad but true.) The campus station (Internet-only) tries to cover home games but its signal is obviously inaudible on the commercial band.

The bigger the city, the less interest local commercial radio has in the college product. (If Fordham didn't have its own station, it's not like they'd be on WFAN or ESPN 1050, either.)

[Bogus Megapardus]

Being one of two I-AA outliers in this conversation, Georgetown hasn't had broadcast coverage in 32 seasons. (Sad but true.) The campus station (Internet-only) tries to cover home games but its signal is obviously inaudible on the commercial band.

The bigger the city, the less interest local commercial radio has in the college product. (If Fordham didn't have its own station, it's not like they'd be on WFAN or ESPN 1050, either.)

Last season Holy Cross went 9-2, played three Ivies and beat two of them (including Harvard) won the Patriot League title, made an excellent showing against Villanova in the playoffs, and is starting this season ranked in the top 25. Were Georgetown to do the same, don't you think it would garner some local media interest in D.C.? Or is the market simply too saturated?

[DFW HOYA]

Last season Holy Cross went 9-2, played three Ivies and beat two of them (including Harvard) won the Patriot League title, made an excellent showing against Villanova in the playoffs, and is starting this season ranked in the top 25. Were Georgetown to do the same, don't you think it would garner some local media interest in D.C.? Or is the market simply too saturated?

I would hope so, but it isn't encouraging that for all its success, HC had not settled on a new station until the last month of the off-season.

Because broadcast radio advertising is in such decline, unless a school has a network of stations or owns the station outright, it's going to be a buy-for-time agreement, i.e., a three hour ad. (Paying for radio time in Williamsport is much less than Washington, that's for sure.) So if you're going to do that, I'd rather see teams set up games nationally on Sirius than on a lonely 500 watt station at the end of the AM dial.

[UAalum72]

I checked the Pioneer and all their teams have coverage. The only schools I can confirm w/o radio to date are:

Holy Cross
Georgetown
Sacred Heart

(That group alone ought to get someone in Worcester to buy time for Bob Fouracre on a low-watt AM station.)
Haven't found anything for Wagner - commercial air time in NYC must be expensive. Other than Sacred Heart, all of the rest of the Northeast Conference teams are on the radio.

[superman7515]

I'll start off by saying I have nothing against Georgetown, and if they want to bring their teams to the CAA, I'm all for it, at least some decent basketball would be played at the Bob Carpenter Center once a year. That being said, I'm sure Georgetown football would have a hard time cracking the media with DC being the Redskins area it is. I understand that they are not a good team at this time, but anyone who has spent any length of time can tell you that DC is a Redskins city through and through. They wouldn't care if you took the Nationals, Wizards, and Capitals and they never had another game there again; but they would riot in the streets and burn Washington again if they tried to move the Redskins. Opening day for MLB this year, Bud Selig was in town for the Nationals game against the defending NL champ Phillies... First game of the year, Strasburg mania heating up the ESPN airwaves, Roy Halladay making his debut for the Phils, President Obama throwing out the first pitch... The Redskins announce they've traded for Donovan McNabb and there is absolutely ZERO coverage of the Nationals on the local news. They break into telecasts to announce the Redskins have traded for McNabb, helicopters literally take to the sky to follow the limousine carrying McNabb from the airport to Redskins Park and Bud Selig is on record as having turned off his television "in disgust" because in DC, there's the Skins and then there is whatever else is left.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

While folks are right that big cities are "pro sports towns", they are that way for a reason. Airtime is expensive and radio stations hungrily accept baseball contracts that run through (hopefully) October. That's 1/3 of the college football season, at least, and there simply is a lot more money in carrying baseball games for a team that's out of it than broadcasts of a private school of which only a small slice of people care about.

It's worth noting that Georgetown (Nationals), Wagner (Yankees), and Holy Cross (Red Sox Nation) are competing with baseball broadcasts all season long, and can't possibly offer a contract that could compete. (Also worth noting is Northeastern and Hofstra were in said baseball markets, too.) Bucknell, Colgate, Lehigh, Lafayette - that's a different story, their markets are less influenced by pro baseball. Fordham is also an exception since they have a school of broadcasting and supply their own station. Also, XM costs money as well.

Radio isn't where the future is - it's creating the iPhone App that you can plug into your car radio to get audio of the game of your choice. IMO, that's where all these broadcast radio programs should start going right away.

[Bogus Megapardus]

Radio isn't where the future is - it's creating the iPhone App that you can plug into your car radio to get audio of the game of your choice. IMO, that's where all these broadcast radio programs should start going right away.

Absolutely correct. And colleges would do well to contract with professional talent to call the games for internet/broadband systems. "Traditional" media are lobbying hard in D.C. to prevent this, however. A lot of entrenched big money has a lot at stake here.

[NoCoDanny]

KOA / 850 - Denver
KALQ / 93.5 - Alamosa
KNFO / 106.1 - Aspen
KBVC / 104.1 - Buena Vista
KDZA / 107.9 - Colorado Springs
KRAI / 550 – Craig
KRSJ / 100.5 - Durango
KCOL / 600 - Ft. Collins
KSIR / 1010 - Ft. Morgan
KMTS / 99.1- Glenwood Spgs.
KRKY / 930 - Granby
KSTR / 96.1 - Grand Junction
KFKA / 1510 - Greeley
KPKE / 1490 - Gunnison
KVAY / 105.7 - Lamar
KCSJ / 590 - Pueblo
KNAM / 1490 - Rifle
KVRH / 1340 - Salida
KBCR / 1230 - Steamboat Spgs
KCRT / 92.5 - Trinidad
KWUF / 1400 - Pagosa Springs
KSPK / 102.3 - Walsenberg