The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team is headquartered in Bank of America Stadium in Uptown Charlotte; the stadium also serves as the team's home field. The Panthers are supported throughout the Carolinas; although the team has played its home games in Charlotte since 1996, they played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina during its first season. The team hosts its annual training camp at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
WBTV, virtual channel 3, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. WBTV's studios are located off Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County. In addition, WBTV's studios continue to house the operations of its former sister radio stations now owned by Entercom: WBT-AM/FM and WLNK, as well as WFNZ, which was previously owned by CBS Radio prior to its acquisition by Beasley Broadcast Group in 2014, and then Entercom in late 2017.
WSPA-TV, virtual channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with Asheville, North Carolina-licensed CW affiliate WYCW. The two stations share studios on International Drive in Spartanburg and transmitter facilities on Hogback Mountain in northeastern Greenville County.
WCSC-TV, virtual channel 5, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. WCSC-TV's studios are located in the West Ashley section of Charleston, and its transmitter is located in Awendaw, South Carolina. Both the studio and road are named for long-time WCSC personalities: Bill Sharpe, a news anchor since 1973, and Charlie Hall, the station's original personality who died just months before its relocation to the current facilities in 1997.
WBT is a commercial radio station serving the Charlotte metropolitan area, which includes parts of North Carolina and South Carolina. First licensed on March 18, 1922, it was one of the United States' first broadcasting stations.
WKQC is a commercial radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is owned by the Beasley Broadcast Group and it plays an adult contemporary radio format. For most of November and December, it switches to all-Christmas music. WKQC's studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte.
WLNK is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina. The station is owned by Entercom; Urban One, which is in the process of acquiring the station, operates it under a local marketing agreement. WLNK broadcasts a hot adult contemporary radio format. Studios are located at One Julian Price Place on West Morehead Street, just west of Uptown Charlotte, and the station shares a broadcast tower with former television partner WBTV located near Dallas at. WLNK broadcasts using HD Radio.
WSOC-FM is a commercial radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group and airs a country music radio format, calling itself "Country 103.7." Its primary country competitor is iHeartMedia's WKKT. WSOC-FM's studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte's South End and the transmitter is located in East Charlotte near Reedy Creek Park.
Robert D. Raiford was an American radio broadcaster and actor, best known for his political/social commentaries delivered during The John Boy and Billy Big Show, a morning radio program heard on stations throughout the American South. He was from Concord, North Carolina and majored in communication at the University of South Carolina. Raiford got his start in broadcasting in 1944 by calling play by play at baseball games. His first real radio job was at WEGO (AM) in Concord, North Carolina. Raiford has appeared in 28 movies, often portraying judge characters. He frequently closed his commentaries with the line "Who says that? I say that!", which also served as the title of a book containing excerpts from these segments. Early in his career, Raiford worked for WTOP radio and WTOP-TV, both CBS News affiliates in Washington, D.C.. His best-known work was a live radio broadcast on WTOP, a CBS Radio affiliate, covering the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. He also worked at Charlotte radio station WBT, and hosted a show on WIST, which aired Charlotte's first telephone talk radio format. Raiford later taught Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1978 to 1986, Raiford was a news anchor and talk show host for Charlotte's NBC television affiliate, known as WRET-TV and later WPCQ-TV during his tenure there.
WYFQ and WYFQ-FM are two radio stations in the Charlotte metropolitan area of North Carolina that serve as the flagship stations of the Bible Broadcasting Network. The AM station operates with a power of 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts nighttime, and is licensed to Charlotte. A directional antenna system is used during the station's nighttime hours. The FM station operates with a power of 8,700 watts, and is licensed to the Wadesboro, North Carolina. The FM station serves mainly as a repeater for the eastern portion of the Charlotte radio market.
WFNZ (610 AM, known on air as "102-5/610 WFNZ," is a commercial radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. Owned by Entercom and operated by Urban One under a local marketing agreement, the station airs a sports radio format. The studios and offices are located at 1 Julian Price Place, while its transmitter is located at the site of its former studios on Radio Road in the Oakdale neighborhood of Northwest Charlotte. WFNZ uses a directional antenna and is powered at 5,000 watts by day. But at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts, sending most of its signal to the east, to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 610 and adjacent frequencies.
WEGO is a radio station licensed to serve Concord, North Carolina, which simulcasts WSAT in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Bob and Sheri is a syndicated U.S. radio program hosted by Bob Lacey and Sheri Lynch. Its flagship radio station is WLNK 107.9 "The Link" in Charlotte, North Carolina. The show is owned by Westwood One and runs live on over 61 nationwide affiliates, as well as worldwide in 177 countries and 150 ships at sea through the American Forces Network, from 6 to 10 AM ET.
WPTK is a radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, the station serves the Research Triangle, North Carolina area. The station is owned by Curtis Media Group. Its studios are located in Raleigh, and the transmitter site is in Cary near its border with Morrisville. The station uses "Just Right Radio" to describe itself and uses the slogan "Not too hard, not too soft" to describe its music.
WOSF is an urban adult contemporary station licensed to Gaffney, South Carolina; serving the Charlotte, North Carolina market. WOSF is the Charlotte affiliate of the Rickey Smiley Morning Show. Owned by Urban One, the station's studios are located in South Charlotte near Carowinds, and the transmitter site is located in Dallas, North Carolina.
WZGV "730 AM The Game" is a sports talk radio station, serving as the ESPN Radio affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. Licensed to Cramerton, North Carolina and owned by Marty Hurney's 2G Media, Inc., the station broadcasts from studios on Morehead Street just outside downtown Charlotte, with transmitter located in northwestern Mecklenburg County.
WDYT is a radio station licensed to Kings Mountain, North Carolina, serving the Charlotte, NC area. The station is currently owned by CRN Communications, LLC. The format is in Spanish.
Don Robertson was an American television announcer for the CBS television network. He was known as "The Voice Of CBS Sports", where he also voiced nearly every sporting event CBS had. Robertson also voiced the CBS network ID "This is CBS", along with promos for the sporting events that he would call.
The Tar Heel Sports Network is a radio network in the United States dedicated to broadcasting live events and programming relating to North Carolina Tar Heels athletics. It is operated by Tar Heel Sports Properties, a property of Learfield IMG College, which manages the multimedia rights for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Network's flagship station is WCHL at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Harold Johnson, known as "The Big Guy", was sports director for WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina for 26 years, during which time he won four Emmy Awards and was nominated for two others. He was the 2010 Republican nominee for North Carolina's 8th congressional district.