A friend in the Charlotte area told me she was in her car last night and tuned to the Link and heard a football game, is this true?
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Sports On 107.9 The Link?
- Thread starter DiamondJoe
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Here's Matt & Ramona addressing their apparent pre-emption on today's show:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ocuge5
Since WBT has rights to the NFL Panthers and NCAAF Tar Heels, 107.9 carried the Tar Heels' tilt with the South Carolina Gamecocks.
You should read Ramona's post on Facebook... Lotta pissed-off listeners!
http://www.facebook.com/ramona.holloway.3/posts/10200929460293585
I guess this will be the last time in awhile that we'll hear sports on 107.9; not only did they re-sign Bob & Sheri, but Matt & Ramona incidentally re-upped this week, as well.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ocuge5
Since WBT has rights to the NFL Panthers and NCAAF Tar Heels, 107.9 carried the Tar Heels' tilt with the South Carolina Gamecocks.
You should read Ramona's post on Facebook... Lotta pissed-off listeners!
http://www.facebook.com/ramona.holloway.3/posts/10200929460293585
I guess this will be the last time in awhile that we'll hear sports on 107.9; not only did they re-sign Bob & Sheri, but Matt & Ramona incidentally re-upped this week, as well.
Sure would love to see a Charlotte FM flip to sports!
Agreed, this market is about overdue for one!
They used to use 99.3 FM in situations like this. Of course, if the games are after dark, people in the west get left out for one game and people in the east for the other.
I can't remember whether they ever did this on 107.9.
I can't remember whether they ever did this on 107.9.
When the Charlotte Hornets started their games moved to 107.9 if the Tar Heels played at the same time. Carolina had priority over the Hornets on WBT.
I can't see any changes coming to 107.9. They just signed Bob and Sherri and Matt and Romona to contract extensions. They would not do that if they had any thoughts of changing.
I also don't see a CBS or Clear Channel station changing to sports. Of the sports not currently on FM none of them are going to pay enough to flip a music station. CBS will tell you 610 and 1660 are actually on FM on the HD3s of 97.9, 101.9 and 104.7.
t123
I can't see any changes coming to 107.9. They just signed Bob and Sherri and Matt and Romona to contract extensions. They would not do that if they had any thoughts of changing.
I also don't see a CBS or Clear Channel station changing to sports. Of the sports not currently on FM none of them are going to pay enough to flip a music station. CBS will tell you 610 and 1660 are actually on FM on the HD3s of 97.9, 101.9 and 104.7.
t123
They didn't even say in the Observer they were going to do this. I just looked and both games were to air on WBT-AM and WBT-FM.
How many people have an HD radio?
I should mention that in the Raleigh News & Observer, when there are two games on at once and WCMC would normally broadcast the third one, that third game is on one of their HD channels. I've never seen that done. Sometimes games on WDNC are on an HD channel too. Which is a good idea at night.
There are at least 2 Insignia HD Radios still sold at Best Buy. But they do need to be more widespread available. And there are several car radio versions.
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