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NASCAR Coverage for 2011

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soundsandsports

Does 97.1 still have the Sprint Cup rights to air MRN/PRN broadcasts, or have they been moved to another station?

I'd like to know before the race, but I'll listen to "Classic Hits" at 6:00 (the start of the MRN prerace show, and if it isn't there, I'll have to take a wild guess where the race coverage lands...
 
It looks like Bowling Green's D93 (WDNS-93.3 FM) is the closest MRN Radio affiliate to Nashville that's carrying the Bud Shootout tonight. I'm not counting WAKM-950 AM, Franklin or WHIN-1010 AM, Gallatin because those frequencies already have WORD-Spartanburg, SC (950) and CFRB-Toronto, ON, CAN (1010) blasting through or mucking up the airwaves right now.

Maybe somebody "actually" in the Music City will pick up the slack by the time the Gatorade Duels or the Daytona 500 come around next week. Any station that picks up the Sprint Cup coverage alone would be fine, and if they also add Nationwide Series coverage a week from today would be an absolute bouns!
 
With the TV coverage, Car of Tomorrow, few drivers with any “personality” and corporate sponsors more important than winning, IMHO NASCAR has become stale. There were a lot of empty seats last year. Even the best radio coverage will not help. Also with a bunch of west of the Mississippi and night races, it is hard for an AM station to carry in the Eastern time zone unless you are a class A or B AM. Most of these stations’ programming is not a good fit for NASCAR. I am glad my pay check is not tied to MRN or PRN. NASCAR radio coverage has been spotty in Atlanta too.
 
soundsandsports said:
It looks like Bowling Green's D93 (WDNS-93.3 FM) is the closest MRN Radio affiliate to Nashville that's carrying the Bud Shootout tonight. I'm not counting WAKM-950 AM, Franklin or WHIN-1010 AM, Gallatin because those frequencies already have WORD-Spartanburg, SC (950) and CFRB-Toronto, ON, CAN (1010) blasting through or mucking up the airwaves right now.

Maybe somebody "actually" in the Music City will pick up the slack by the time the Gatorade Duels or the Daytona 500 come around next week. Any station that picks up the Sprint Cup coverage alone would be fine, and if they also add Nationwide Series coverage a week from today would be an absolute bouns!
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Here's hoping the 93.9 translator for WNAZ (or the remnants of it) gets shoved over to WHIN...If little ol' WQKR can get a translator, why can't they?
 
I just tried finding NASCAR radio coverage (with Fox 17 covering a tornado warning near Clarksville) and unfortunately I wasn't able to find any stations covering the part of Nashville where I live with the race. I actually pulled this thread up to see if I could find an affiliate carrying it, but no dice. Typically the only thing I miss from my time as a Sirius subscribers was the Howard 100/101 programming, but today is a day where it would be nice to have NASCAR audio.

It could be worse -- the storm could have arrived before my girlfriend and I made it back from Evansville this afternoon. Be safe everyone with the storms.
 
I think the fact that only 6 or 7 people here have asked about NASCAR answers the question why fewer stations are doing NASCAR this year.
 
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