UCF Radio Moving In
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UCF Radio Moving In
UCF football games will rotate between WLVJ-AM 1040 and WKAT-AM 1360 in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, while WPSL-AM 1590 will take the Knights' broadcast into five counties, including Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Okeechobee and Indian River. A complete weekly radio schedule will be released prior to the start of the season.
FAU games used to be on WLVJ and outside of the south Palm Beach County area, it could barely be heard. At night, forget it.
WPSL is a very local station in Port St. Lucie that can be heard as far south as Stuart and as far north as Fort Pierce. That's it. No Palm Beaches coverage there.
These stations have been known to carry other college games (PSL might even carry FAU games), so that might spell doom for UCF coverage in our area.
But, it's a start and FAU's marketing people better wake up. Soon. Does FAU have a Dade station?
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UCF Radio Moving In
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Wise Owl
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On a different note…can someone explain that cluster of helmets for Essency, that's not C*USA .
GO OWLS!
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Full Flight
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UCF Radio Moving In
2. A huge portion of UCF students come from the area…..to think they, and their parents wouldn't want to hear UCF games is naive.
3. That cluster of helmets is our schedule.
4. The point of expanding UCF radio is to capture new fans….those who "dont care" as of now. That's the point of marketing, and a reason why UCF is next going into the Jacksonville market.
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PSL and far south Palm Beach County listeners might hear some of the games on these ratings-, wattage- and listener-challenged stations, when the sun is shining. West Palm Beach - nah.
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UCF Radio Moving In
BMarkey said
As usual, UCF acting too big for its britches.
PSL and far south Palm Beach County listeners might hear some of the games on these ratings-, wattage- and listener-challenged stations, when the sun is shining. West Palm Beach - nah.
LOL! Ya, marketing and expanding our radio network is just UCF acting too big!!
Markey, your disdain for everything UCF has cluttered any common sense you had.
6 years ago nobody would have believed we'd have 25,000 season ticket holders today. 6 years from now, I'm sure people will be saying the same thing about carving a fan base in South Florida.
Don't hate on UCF just because Tribble is being very pro-active.
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What? Next we have radio in New Jersey for football games?
How about New York??
We have tons of Alumni in the Northeast…
BTW,
nobody is driving four hours each time you have a game - each way…if they want to listen on the radio - fine…
But they better be direhards to carve out five to six full weekends a year to make those hauls…
My former boss is about as diehard as you get and she would only do ONE…….
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Win some games, and your conference (like you folks claimed you were going to do in the MAC), and then talk some smack.
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BMarkey said
The University of Central Florida somehow is going to ignite the interest of fans in South Florida. Uh-huh. You overstimate the level of interest any of us down here have for your area.
Win some games, and your conference (like you folks claimed you were going to do in the MAC), and then talk some smack.
To be fair, UCF is a school of choice among high school grads in South Florida. There are a number of reasons for that, of course, and it's an aside to go into them.
Something worth noting, however, is that their population is roughly double our size (45k as compared to 26k) so their alumni base is likely stretched out to… well, South Florida. And that alumni base surely wants to keep in touch with the Knights.
So UCF moving into PBC is not a dumb move, necessarily, although it is of course insulting to all of us in South Florida who are proud of OUR teams and would like to see the fire of passion for our own schools grow unabated.
I do believe that, once more housing and the stadium come to campus (and that's very soon), our fire is going to rage a lot hotter than it ever has been and FAU will be the dominant force in Palm Beach County. UCF may carve out a niche but FAU will still be dominant.
Just my opinion.
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