Southern Miss' 2002 Radio Coverage Expands Its Limits
8/12/2002 12:00:00 AM | Football
Southern Miss' 2002 Radio Coverage Expands Its Limits
Hattiesburg, Miss. - When Southern Miss kicks off its 2002 football season against Jackson State on Aug. 31, the Golden Eagles will be playing before what appears to be a sellout crowd at M.M. Roberts Stadium, and will have the strongest broadcast signal in school history on the Southern Miss ISP Sports Radio Network.
Anchored by flagship station WXRR-FM (104.5) in Hattiesburg, and featuring three other powerful FM stations ? WDMS-FM (100.7) in Greenville, WAOY-FM (91.7 in Gulfport) and WAKH-FM (105.7) in McComb ? the network?s listenership reaches throughout the state of Mississippi and into parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee.
Key returning affiliates to the Southern Miss ISP Network include WFFF-FM (Columbia), WNLA-FM (Indianola), WJDX-AM (Jackson), WAZA-FM (Liberty), WRBE-AM and FM (Lucedale), WFFX-AM (Meridian), WABB-AM (Mobile), WYKK-FM (Quitman), WKMQ-AM (Tupelo), WTUP-AM (Tupelo), WABO-AM and FM (Waynesboro), and WROB-AM (West Point).
?We are thrilled that more people than ever before will be able to follow Golden Eagle football on our radio network,? Southern Miss athletic director Richard Giannini says. ?That, combined with the fact that we have one of the most exciting schedules in school history, should make the 2002 season very special."
Southern Miss head football coach Jeff Bower and John Cox, the ?Voice of the Golden Eagles,? co-host ?The Golden Eagle Hotline.? The weekly one-hour call-in show originates from Garfield?s Restaurant and Pub in Hattiesburg?s Turtle Creek Mall. The show airs every Tuesday night until Dec. 17. The Oct. 29 program airs from Ft. Worth, Texas, where the Eagles play TCU on Oct. 30, while the other shows all air from Garfield?s.
Cox, a four-time Mississippi Sportscaster of the Year, will handle the play-by-play duties on the network again this season and will be joined by color commentator and Southern Miss Hall of Famer Vic Purvis and sideline reporter and locker room host, Lance Pittman.
Each Southern Miss football broadcast begins one hour prior to the opening kickoff with ?The Golden Eagle Tailgate Show? and ?Southern Miss Gameday,? and includes an exclusive talk with head coach Jeff Bower about that day?s game.
?We are pleased to be able to provide what we feel is an outstanding radio network for Southern Miss Athletics,? Mark Meadows of ISP Sports, the sales and marketing rights holder for Southern Miss, says. ?The positive response we have received from our network of stations is indicative of the interest and following that the athletic program has throughout the region and is a credit to the job that Richard Giannini and his coaches are doing.?
Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., ISP Sports is the exclusive multimedia rights holder for 16 major Division I-A athletic programs. The company produces radio networks at Georgia Tech, Marshall, Tulane, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, in addition to Southern Miss.
Here is the complete list of stations that makes up the Southern Miss ISP Sports Network for the 2002 football campaign (some stations may carry a partial schedule due to previous commitments): WAOY-FM (Biloxi/Gulfport), WBOX-AM and FM (Bogalusa), WTCL-AM (Chattahoochee, Fla), WFFF-FM (Columbia), WDMS-FM and WGVM-AM (Greenville), WXRR-FM (Hattiesburg/flagship station), WNLA-FM (Indianola), WJDX-AM (Jackson), WAZA-FM (Liberty), WAKH-FM (McComb), WRBE-AM and FM (Lucedale), WFFX-AM (Meridian), WABB-AM (Mobile), WYKK-FM (Quitman), WKMQ-AM (Tupelo), WTUP-AM (Tupelo), WABO-AM and FM (Waynesboro), WROB-AM (West Point).