KDKA and PSU football????

[blion72]

it seems that i recall listening to PSU football on KDKA radio in the late 1960's - 1970's. i think we had an old BWI paper from 1980 that showed KDKA as a radio voice of PSU FB.

do any of you recall if KDKA was indeed broadasting PSU FB??? if so, why did they stop since we have such a strong national product and enormous listeners in the region. maybe i have this wrong, but KDKA seems like the station.

 

[moofafoo]

it seems that i recall listening to PSU football on KDKA radio in the late 1960's - 1970's. i think we had an old BWI paper from 1980 that showed KDKA as a radio voice of PSU FB.

do any of you recall if KDKA was indeed broadasting PSU FB??? if so, why did they stop since we have such a strong national product and enormous listeners in the region. maybe i have this wrong, but KDKA seems like the station.

You are correct.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

it seems that i recall listening to PSU football on KDKA radio in the late 1960's - 1970's. i think we had an old BWI paper from 1980 that showed KDKA as a radio voice of PSU FB.

do any of you recall if KDKA was indeed broadasting PSU FB??? if so, why did they stop since we have such a strong national product and enormous listeners in the region. maybe i have this wrong, but KDKA seems like the station.

4 1/2 months ago you started basically the same thread (CLICK HERE). That's kind of unusual.

 

[nits74]

4 1/2 months ago you started basically the same thread (CLICK HERE). That's kind of unusual.

Thought I'd seen this before. Just didn't realize it was the same individual. Wonder what the agenda is.

 

[JR4PSU]

it seems that i recall listening to PSU football on KDKA radio in the late 1960's - 1970's. i think we had an old BWI paper from 1980 that showed KDKA as a radio voice of PSU FB.

do any of you recall if KDKA was indeed broadasting PSU FB??? if so, why did they stop since we have such a strong national product and enormous listeners in the region. maybe i have this wrong, but KDKA seems like the station.

Did BWI exist in 1980?

 

[BBrown]

Did BWI exist in 1980?

It was Catch Lions Fever before BWI but not sure when the change occurred.

 

[NittPicker]

Does anyone even listen to KDKA anymore?

 

[BBrown]

Does anyone even listen to KDKA anymore?

I don't know about the radio but their TV news is a failure of epic proportions.
I remember what it used to be in the 70's and 80's. Its an embarrassment.

 

[thewholebit]

I don't know about the radio but their TV news is a failure of epic proportions.
I remember what it used to be in the 70's and 80's. Its an embarrassment.

Worth tuning in just to catch Al Julius.

 

[RCS-PSU70]

The problem with KDKA was that the Pirates were the primary sports tenant and their September games usually interfered with PSU football.

 

[blion72]

Thought I'd seen this before. Just didn't realize it was the same individual. Wonder what the agenda is.

no agenda, just curious what happened. we were talking about this this weekend, and so just resent to see if some other points. i can say that i used to be able to pick up KDKA from several hundred miles away at night. it seems like KDKA would kill to have PSU FB. they might even want PSU Hockey!!

yes BWI was CLF before, and i think late 70's is when Phil founded it. i was among the early subscribers and never stopped. i have saved papers with Curt Warner-Todd Blackledge team.

 

[lionlurker]

KDKA-FM is actually 93.7, the Fan, which everybody knows is the Pitt flagship.

In the old days, KDKA-AM did indeed carry PSU football, but that was a long time ago. That was back when only one game a week was on television, in the afternoon on ABC. ND had their reruns on Sunday AM, as did Grambling.

 

[BBrown]

KDKA-FM is actually 93.8, the Fan, which everybody knows is the Pitt flagship.

In the old days, KDKA-AM did indeed carry PSU football, but that was a long time ago. That was back when only one game a week was on television, in the afternoon on ABC. ND had their reruns on Sunday AM, as did Grambling.

IIRC John Sanders was the sports guy and was a pro PSU guy as was the station it was WTAE and Bill Hilgrove that was the Pitt station.
I grew up in Somerset, PA and loved to watch the WTAE ch. 4 after PSU beat Pitt, the 48-14 game and the 15-13 1977 game were especially fun. LOL.

 

[UNCPSUFAN]

I think at that time John Sanders did the games and prior to that many moon ago guy named Tom Bender did the games for KD radio.

 

[wslee1]

Fran Fisher: (in 1969) "And we wanted—Penn State wanted—KDKA’s 50,000 watts in Pittsburgh’s back yard."

That quote was from Prato's interview with Fran Fisher before he died.

I think KDKA-TV also was carrier of the Weekly Penn State Football Story for many years. I always thought there was some tie in with KDKA with production of the show since KDKA's Sanders and later Guy Junker were the voices of the show.

 

[PSU_Nut]

no agenda, just curious what happened. we were talking about this this weekend, and so just resent to see if some other points. i can say that i used to be able to pick up KDKA from several hundred miles away at night. it seems like KDKA would kill to have PSU FB. they might even want PSU Hockey!!

yes BWI was CLF before, and i think late 70's is when Phil founded it. i was among the early subscribers and never stopped. i have saved papers with Curt Warner-Todd Blackledge team.

I hope you weren't serious about Penn State hockey. There is no way they are going to want something that may get 100 listeners. College hockey is an afterthought for people.

Live sports on the radio is simply not as popular as it use to be. With almost every game on tv there not much need to listen to the game. Sports talk radio is far more popular then the actual games.

Penn State lost a ton of radio stations about 10-15 years ago when some genius administrator decided that they would force stations to carry Penn State basketball in order to get football. Many stations found it was not worth eating the money they lost on basketball to continue to carry football.

 

[lionlurker]

Yeah, the football/basketball tie-in did not work out well.

 

[nits74]

Does anyone even listen to KDKA anymore?

no agenda, just curious what happened. we were talking about this this weekend, and so just resent to see if some other points. i can say that i used to be able to pick up KDKA from several hundred miles away at night. it seems like KDKA would kill to have PSU FB. they might even want PSU Hockey!!

yes BWI was CLF before, and i think late 70's is when Phil founded it. i was among the early subscribers and never stopped. i have saved papers with Curt Warner-Todd Blackledge team.

Sorry there, blion. Like you, I do wish Penn State were still on the "Big K". But as others have noted and I think I may have on your original post, the end of that from what I've heard is that Penn State insisted on the station carrying BB also. Can't blame KDKA in that regard. PSU BB didn't help with ratings, to say the least. Until such time as Pitt moves away from KDKA FM, this probably won't happen again anytime soon.