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WOLFPACK SPORTS MOVES TO WRAL-FM

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Capitol Broadcasting in Raleigh announced a big change coming for fans of NC State Wolfpack football and basketball broadcasts. It looks like Jim Goodman has severed his relationship with WPTF and is putting NC State games on his station, WRAL-FM beginning this fall. The deal is for the next ten years. Two things come to mind. First, what will Don Curtis do with a sports void on PTF? Will Carolina or Duke try to get their radio product on PTF now? Is Curtis dropping all sports programming to focus on talk? And how will the mostly female, soccer mom audience on RAL react? You know they'll be peeeooooded that they won't be able to hear their Hall & Oates, Air Supply, Whitney Houston and Steve Winwood on football Saturdays. And, will Goodman now make the RAL staff change their wardrobe from light blue to red? I think NC State games had been on WPTF since the early 50's. That's pretty huge.
 
That surprised me too.

Wolfpack on FM? On a womanly station? After manymany years on PTF. ???

I was wondering how the 99.9 vs. WQDR competion figured into it.
 
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This is not a surprise at all. The PTF run call-in show did nothing but trash their coaches after games. NC State wasn't happy with their performance. It has nothing to do with CMC flipping (FYI, they're not) and more to do with the station that most NC State fans/alumni listen to (not the students but alumni) and the fact that it makes everything a lot easier when one company is controlling the show. Research was done.

If anything the cume on MIX weekends will be huge compared to what they are now. Using CMC was to make sure not everything was put on MIX.
 
WPTF had the North Carolina State Wolfpack Football & Basketball Games plus
the "coaches shows" for close to 43 years, i never thought WRAL & WCMC-FM
would pick them up, most of us who have lived in North Carolina for years,
especially those in the triangle and down east, have been accustomed to
WPTF's coverage, but with WRAL's massive coverage at 101.5, and their
sister station, WCMC at 99.9, many areas who could not hear WPTF, even
though they have 50,000 watts at 680 AM, will get to hear the Pack
"static-free", as for WPTF, this will free them up to carry more talk programs
during evenings and weekends, which i'm sure they are happy to do.
 
I just thought there might be some kind of competition between WCMC as being owned by Capitol Broadcasting and Capitol Sports Network being a part of them and QDR being a part of WPTF/Curtis Media, not that 99.9 competing in the ratings or anything ("yet" to hedge my bets in perpetuity), just theoretical. ;)
 
I grew up in Raleigh, but moved to Atlanta in 1981. At that time, UNC sports were on WRAL-FM.
Who carries UNC football and basketball now?
 
quadraphonic said:
That surprised me too.

Wolfpack on FM? On a womanly station? After manymany years on PTF. ???

I was wondering how the 99.9 vs. WQDR competion figured into it.
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I've heard a Wolfpack basketball game on FM before (Curtis's 102.5), although they may have just shifted the game from 680 to 102.5.

I figured that Duke and/or State would follow Carolina's (and Wake Forest's) lead at some point by including FM affiliates in their flagship market. Carolina has an FM affiliate (WRDU, and before that the former WTRG) and an AM affiliate (WCHL 1360) in this market. Wake Forest has an FM affiliate on CMG's 101.1. One thing I didn't figure on, though, was an FM station replacing an AM affiliate.
As for Duke, any ideas as to which FM station might consider picking them up?
 
atlwxman said:
I grew up in Raleigh, but moved to Atlanta in 1981. At that time, UNC sports were on WRAL-FM.
Who carries UNC football and basketball now?
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WRDU 106.1 The Rooster and WCHL 1360-AM now carry UNC football and basketball. Before WRDU, the former WTRG (now WRVA 100.7 The River) carried the UNC games, with WRDU taking over prior to the beginning of the 2005 football season.
 
Thanks for the info on UNC.

It's still weird to think that NC State sports won't be on WPTF.
 
I know there's a precedent for the Pack (and other teams) on FM.
Carolina games use to come on 96.5 WFLB in Fayetteville when they were Mix96 too. I think they still do since it's 96.5 The Drive. WBRF 98.1 also does Wake games, and WIST in the Triad use to do Pack games too. Pro games (as well as the Carolina Panthers :eek: ;D) are all moving to FM nationwide.

Actually though Mix96 when it was a CHR/top 40 in the early 90s is about the closest to a womanly station ;) like WRAL I can think of to run sports. Maybe WTRG when they did it would compare, female numberly speaking. Can anyone think of another one in another market I don't know?

All the other FMs to try it seem to be some kind of country format, except for multi-rock WRDU when they ran the games, and the shock and added weekend cume didn't seem to help WRDU or WTRG gain any male audience.

And overall it will still just be weird to hear them not on 680 like others said...
 
Wolfpack Sports Marketing (a division of Capitol Broadcasting) has controlled the rights to NC State sports broadcast for years! CMG was simply an affiliate. Gary Hahn, Tony Haynes and the rest of the broadcast crew were Capitol employees.

This amounts to a change of affiliation in the Raleigh area and is not unusual. Most college sports networks desire to be on FMs as flagships these days. Wake Forest did it to WSJS in Winston-Salem ten or more years ago.

It will be interesting to see what WPTF does. There are a variety of opportunities - including sticking with the talk schedule.
 
I just thought of something else: Will the Wolfpack women's basketball games still be on 88.1 WKNC (N.C. State's student radio station)? WPTF only carried football and men's basketball; women's hoops has been on WKNC...
 
XTalker said:
It will be interesting to see what WPTF does. There are a variety of opportunities - including sticking with the talk schedule.
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My money is on ECU on WPTF sometime in the near future. There are a lot of Pirate alums in the Triangle, and Phil Zachary knows an opportunity when he sees it.
 
My money is on ECU on WPTF sometime in the near future. There are a lot of Pirate alums in the Triangle, and Phil Zachary knows an opportunity when he sees it.
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I agree, Yankee Fan, IF ECU can start winning again. Appalachian State, however, has a HUGE base in the triangle and they're winning NOW.
 
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