College football on radio

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College football on radio includes the radio broadcasting of college football games, as well as pre- and post-game reports, analysis, and human-interest stories.

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Events leading up to radio broadcasts

In 1911, more than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas to watch a mechanical reproduction of the 1911 Kansas vs. Missouri football game while it was being played. A Western Union telegraph wire was set up direct from Columbia, Missouri. A group of people then would announce the results of the previous play and used a large model of a football playing field to show the results. Those in attendance cheered as though they were watching the game live, including the school's legendary Rock Chalk, Jayhawk cheer. [1]

Radio broadcasts

College football games have been broadcast since at least 1919, including the Wesleyan at New York University contest on November 18th of that year, carried by Lee de Forest's experimental station, 2XG in New York City. [2] The first game broadcast nationwide happened the three years later, with the 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game. [3] The game had Grantland Rice dub Princeton the "Team of Destiny."

Today, virtually every college football game (at least from Division III on up; junior college, club/junior varsity squads and sprint football teams tend not to have radio coverage) is broadcast on the radio in their local market and many are broadcast nationally. Division III teams may rely on student-run radio stations (or, sometimes, college-owned public radio stations) as their only broadcast outlet, but Division I teams generally garner enough interest to be broadcast not only on commercial radio, but on a network of stations covering a wide region. These regions vary in size and can reflect not only the geography of a fanbase [4] [5] but geographies of US states and culture regions. [6] Other coverage includes local broadcasts of weekly coach's programs. Sports USA Radio Network, Westwood One, Compass Media Networks, ESPN Radio, Touchdown Radio, and Nevada Sports Network all distribute college football broadcasts on a nationwide basis. Additionally Notre Dame and BYU have their games distributed nationally through IMG.

Radio broadcasts of Canadian university football are not as consistent. There is generally no national radio broadcasting of university football, much in the same way that the sport is not nationally (or internationally) televised. Teams in mid-sized markets tend to be broadcast on radio, while those in the largest cities or suburbs (where the sport has to compete with much higher-profile professional sports) typically do not.

On the Internet, Division I schools tend to place audio streaming of their radio broadcasts behind paywalls. Lower divisions and Canadian teams typically allow their affiliates and/or flagship stations to broadcast the game online without any additional fees.

List of National Radio Broadcast teams

(For 2020)

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References

  1. ↑ "100 years ago: Football fans enjoy mechanized reproduction of KU-MU game". Lawrence Journal-World. November 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Foot Ball Score—Via Wireless Telephone" by Morris Press, Radio Amateur News, December 1919, pages 295, 321.
  3. ↑ History.com staff (October 28, 2009). "Princeton-Chicago football game is broadcast across the country". History.com. A+E Networks. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Cooper, J. A. (18 April 2017). "All Our Teams: The Geography of SEC Fandom and Southern Identity". Select or Award-Winning Individual Scholarship. Emory, VA: Emory & Henry College Undergraduate Honors Thesis.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ↑ Giratikanon, Tom; Katz, Josh; Leonhardt, David; Quealy, Kevin; Tracy, Marc (2014-10-03). "N.C.A.A. Fan Map: How the Country Roots for College Football". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. ↑ Cooper, J. A.; Davis, Edward H. (2019). "Fandom on the Air: Assessing Regional Identity through College Football Radio Networks". Northeastern Geographer. 11: 1–29. ISSN   1948-5417 – via Digital Commons.
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