Network Personnel Middle Tennessee athletics will hit a little closer to home when the Blue Raiders go to the airwaves for the start of the 2007 football season this fall.
Middle Tennessee's athletic department proudly announced its return to Murfreesboro's WGNS-1450 AM for broadcasts of its football and men's basketball games in 2005, as well as the station carrying the Rick Stockstill football show and the Kermit Davis basketball show.
In 2006, the Blue Raiders announced a new Nashville flagship station when WNFN 106.7 FM - The Fan came on board. The ESPN station will carry football, men's basketball, and select women's basketball games, while also broadcasting the Rick Stockstill and Kermit Davis weekly radio shows. The Blue Raiders and 106.7 The Fan announced in August of 2007 a new three-year extension.
WGNS, which made its return to carrying Blue Raider athletics for the first time in over a decade in 2005-06, will blanket the local area by reaching to McMinnville to the east, Columbia to the west, and Gallatin to the north.
Campus station WMOT 89.5 FM will also broadcast football and all women's basketball games for Middle Tennessee in 2007-08. WMOT, a 100,000-watt station will reach beyond Bowling Green, Ky., to the north and Cookeville, Tenn., to the east.
All Blue Raider football, men's basketball, women's basketball, and baseball broadcasts can also be heard via the internet at GoBlueRaiders.com.
Charlie McAlexander will handle the play-by-play for football with Chip Walters adding color commentary, and McAlexander will also call the action for men's basketball. Dick Palmer will handle play-by-play for women's basketball.
2007 Radio Affiliates
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