By R.L. Bynum Lead Panthers writer at The Charlotte Observer headed to The Athletic The Athletic has lured some top sports writers away from newspapers but hasn’t always been able to get all its targets to jump. In two North Carolina cases, the subscription site has been successful with one target and has possibly failed… Read more »
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SportsChannel8: The Radio Show, 8/11
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best (or worst) in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 10am to noon on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. here’s this week’s rundown….. 00:45 – We’re checking the Wake County arrest report the day after Phish in Raleigh 4:12 –… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show, 7/28
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best (or worst) in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 10am to noon on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. the rundown…. 1:00 – Hayes is back from his indefinite (one show) suspension, and he’s here to get his show back…. Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show from 6/30; Free Agency & 4th of July
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brings you the best in North Carolina sports and beyond, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning from 10am to noon on 99.9 FM The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. The rundown: 00:45 – yes, we are working 4th of July week 1:00 – Weather Moose is already making Johnston County sound effects… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show from 6/16, “Yeah, Buddy”
Who needs basketball and football when we’ve got World Cup soccer and Big Rock Fishing? SportsChannel8: The Radio Show brought you the best in North Carolina sports, all in two hours. You can listen every Saturday morning form 10am to noon on 99.9 The Fan or WRALSportsFan.com. Here’s what we talked about: 01:10 – where… Read more »
SportsChannel8: The Radio Show, Champions League Final Preview Show
It was a history-making 2 hours of radio on Saturday, as we scrapped our normal show and went for a 2-hour soccer mega-show in what was officially North Carolina’s first EVER UEFA Champions League Final Preview Radio Show. It had soccer media, it had professional soccer players, it had “Johnston County or England”…..it was amazing…. Read more »
Media Musings: Sports Radio Shuffle
by R.L. Bynum CBC shuffles sports stations, adds music station The long history of daily local sports radio shows on WDNC (620 AM) ended with a Capitol Broadcasting Company’s shuffle Tuesday that has added a new yet-to-be-named music station to the CBC mix. There will still be sports stations branded as The Buzz, The Ticket… Read more »
R.L.’s Media Musings: An Update on Cam vs. The Media
Editor’s note: New contributor R.L. will write regularly about media topics of interest to the sports fans of NC. He’ll also contribute to our coverage of UNC hoops. And if I know him well, he’ll probably write some stuff about running (he’s closing in on 50 career marathons). R.L. spent 27 years as a newspaper… Read more »