Auburn Athletics Moves To XM Radio
by Jay Coulter
on Jul 2, 2008 5:00 AM CDT
in Football
By Jay Coulter
jccoulter@gmail.com
This is turning out to be media week at Track'em Tigers. On Monday we talked blogs and on Tuesday we looked at television. Why not talk about radio today?
Yesterday the University announced that Auburn is switching satellite providers. Beginning this football season, the Tigers will now be heard on XM Radio.
For the past few years, Auburn has been a fixture on Sirius Satellite Radio. It appeared that Auburn would remain there for at least two more years despite the move of eight other SEC members last year to XM.
Auburn joins Alabama, Florida and Vanderbilt who also jumped ship to XM on Tuesday. The satellite provider now holds the contract for the entire conference. This is huge for Auburn listeners. XM will carry all 12 of Auburn's regular season football games in addition to most of the men's basketball games and selected baseball and women's basketball.
The best thing about the move is that all SEC members will be in one place. Of course, if you are a Sirius subscriber this is not necessarily good. But it might not be all that bad either. The two satellite providers have plans to merge later this year and are getting past the final hurdles now in Washington D.C.
So even if you subscribe to Sirius you're probably going to be OK. The only downside is that it's looking doubtful the merger will happen before the start of football season. XM has also added the Tim Brando show back to its lineup airing daily from 11:00-noon CT. Brando is one of the few national talk show hosts who focuses on college athletics, especially college football. Check out his show if you have XM. It's excellent.
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Today will be the final blog post of the week. I'm taking a little vacation time during the Fourth of July weekend. I hope all of you have a long, enjoyable weekend. Let's not forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may enjoy this wonderful country of ours. Have a great week and I'll see you on Monday.
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At least you don't have to subsidize Howard Stern anymore..
...until that merger passes muster--if ever. I’m just glad we’re on 680 The Fan here in Atlanta now. We’ve had a lot of problems with being on radio here in the metro area the last 18 years, including some years where we weren’t own at all-unless you count Carrollton, GA.
Being on 640, which is an all sports-talk format, we get plenty of lead ins during the week from the Buck and Kincade show, which helps out quite a bit. They’re even doing a live remote during Tubs’ appearance here July 15th. I’ll see if I can call in to them from the audience…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Jul 2, 2008 7:55 PM CDT 0 recs
I'm envious, now.
.....A mug of good, fresh coffee, and morning sand-castle building on the beach, that’s one of my favorite things! Have a good vacation, Jay!
.....There are some XM Channels on AOL Radio, but I haven’t installed their software since the last time I formatted my hard drive. Too much bloat… What’s weird about 680 The Fan, is that it broadcasts on the net , but when Auburn is on, they don’t. Evidently, that All-Access CSTV junk on Auburn’s website has exclusive web-cast rights, or something.
by Acid Reign on Jul 3, 2008 8:38 AM CDT 0 recs
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