94.5 in Charleston

[The Real SamC]

Our Charleston radio affiliate, 94.5 FM has reformatted from news/talk to paid religion and religious music. The news/talk format has moved down to 1 kW AM 1240, a station that cannot be received at night more than a mile or two from its Dunbar tower.

No word on if Herd sports remain on the FM, but I cannot imagine it would. If so, this hurts us.

 

[Always The Herd]

Seems to go along with the rest of the state. You can't get "GOOD" reception in the Beckley metro area either.

 

[HerdChemist89]

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Meh.

Terrestrial radio is DEAD, Sam.

I listen to Herd Sports on the internet and would do so even if I lived up there in WV.

I stream ( IHeart, Pandora, ITunes, etc, etc ) from my tablet to my Bluetooth Sony boombox anywhere I can get a cell tower or wireless network.

I even listen to local radio here in FL on the same setup.

They probably won't be putting terrestrial radios in new cars in another 5 years or so anyway.

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[marshallmark]

For some reason, Woody and Paul's show stopped streaming a few weeks ago. I used to listen to it from the station's app, or through TuneIn, but no more.

Frustrating

 

[herdfan429]

Marshall and IMG suck. I was able to watch a bluefield college baseball game on youtube this past weekend. Yet we cant get streams.

 

[HerdFan73]

I'm extremely disappointed about this. I listened to 94.5 almost exclusively.

 

[oldeherd]

Our athletic department, and athletic director, have really dropped the ball when it comes to our so call "sports network". Hell, go back to the 90s and early 2000s and we had 20 to 30 affiliates around the state; now about a third of that. And, for some reason, our sorry ass IMG "partners" have managed to put more and more of our broadcasts on low power AM stations that are virtually impossible to hear at night. For some damn reason, Hamrick and IMG won't let the games be streamed live over the internet; a big ass mistake. Hell, WVU streams coaches shows, games, even Olympic sports games, e.g. baseball, over the internet. Result, their programs are available, even to the most casual fan, and thus are making the program visable/audible across the state and beyond. That's HOW YOU BUILD A FANBASE, HAMMY!!! I feel sorry for you Charleston listeners; here in Mercer County the HERD is available only on an affiliate that is primarily a religious broadcast station. If MU has an afternoon game and someone has paid for a religious broadcast at the same time, well, the HERD game is NOT ON!! Same goes for HS sports, if MU plays at same time a HS game is scheduled, or if Coaches show is on the same time as a HS game is scheduled for broadcast, the MU programming gets bumped. Really sucks, and I don't see anyone in the athletic dept. doing anything about it!

 

[Mike Gwinn]

Here is over-air radio network info from HerdZone.

If the Thundering Herd Network loses the FM station in Charleston, the only city in southern WV where the Herd can be heard on an FM station outside of Huntington is Logan.



This post was edited on 4/7 8:35 AM by Mike Gwinn

Link

 

[huntersdl2007]

It is 2015 they need to stream ALL games. If i have to pay a fee to have high quality streaming to see all the games i will... but that last service hardly ever worked and 90% of the games werent available. We had better tv when we were in the MAC. Just the facts!

 

[flairforherd]

Originally posted by Mike Gwinn:
Here is over-air radio network info from HerdZone.

If the Thundering Herd Network loses the FM station in Charleston, the only city in southern WV where the Herd can be heard on an FM station outside of Huntington is Logan.




This post was edited on 4/7 8:35 AM by Mike Gwinn

Wow. Just wow.

Talk about dropping the ball. This is a Marcum-esque level of bad.