WYNG

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WYNG is a radio station licensed to Mount Carmel, IL and serving the Evansville, IN market at 94.9 FM. The current format is ESPN Sports Radio.

1 HISTORY
- 1.1 Previous Stations with the same Call Letters
2 ESPN Radio
3 Network schedule
4 Former shows
5 External References

[edit] HISTORY

94.9 had been through several variants of Rock throughout the years, notable were WTRI-FM (Classic Hits) and WKRI (Rock AC) before taking the WYNG calls and country format in 2003. Yet, fortunes did not improve as WYNG dropped from a very popular country station at 105.3 to dead last at 94.9. Also not helping was the fact WYNG along with sisters WBKR and WKDQ were sold to Regent Broadcasting and Regent thus decided that the cluster had too many country stations and thus flipped WYNG to network sports under the ESPN Radio Banner. But WYNG has seen further slippage with sports and in 2006, it was announced that long time WGBF-AM/WYNG sportscaster Dan Egierski would not have his contract renewed. This led to some speculation that ESPN Radio's affiliation with 94.9 was on the rocks and that Regent would either sell elect to 94.9 or once again flip formats. On August 25th 2006, they chose to sell, to a independent named Russ Withers who also owns WRUL-FM/WROY-AM, two rural stations in Southeastern Illinois that throw a moderate signal into Evansville. ESPN's format will likely be dropped, but it is not clear as to what at this time.

[edit] Previous Stations with the same Call Letters

Prior to being used on FM, WYNG was the call of a 1-kW AM on 1590, licensed to Warwick-East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The original owners ran it as "beautiful music" starting in around 1957. It was to be a "rim shot" to Providence but the signal never really made it. It was sold to The Attleboro Radio Association (which also owned WARA licensed to Attleboro, Massachusetts) in 1961 and was quickly converted to a "community" format for the two cities of license. It enjoyed moderate commercial success but, as a daytimer, had only limited potential. It was subsequently sold to a religious broadcaster who changed the call to "WARV" and was able to go directional, boost power, and run full-time. As WYNG the station had the distinction of being one of the very few to have its transmitter building destroyed by fire twice in one month. There was no allegation of arson or malicious mischief.

[edit] ESPN Radio

ESPN Radio is a national sports radio network based in the United States. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut. The network airs a regular schedule of daily and weekly programming as well as live coverage of Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Bowl Championship Series, and National Invitation Tournament games. As of 2006, like ESPN, ESPN Radio now has what is called ESPN Radio Insider. ESPN Radio is broadcast to subscribers of both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio.

ESPN Radio currently has five company-owned stations in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Pittsburgh. Most other markets have ESPN Radio affiliates, whether they be part-time or have their entire format dedicated to ESPN Radio. ESPN Radio is currently an official part of the ABC Radio network, though the Walt Disney Company is not including the ESPN Radio network or the Radio Disney network in the pending sale of ABC Radio to Citadel Broadcasting.

[edit] Network schedule

[edit] Monday–Friday

Eastern	Pacific	Program	Original Run
2 a.m.	11 p.m.	AllNight with Jason Smith	(2005–present)
6 a.m.	3 a.m.	Mike and Mike in the Morning	(1998–present)
10 a.m.	7 a.m.	The Herd with Colin Cowherd	(2004–present)
1 p.m.	10 a.m.	The Dan Patrick Show	(1999–present)
4 p.m.	1 p.m.	The SportsBash	(2005–present)
7 p.m.	4 p.m.	The Pulse	(2006–present)
10 p.m.	7 p.m.	GameNight	(1992–present)

[edit] Saturday

Eastern	Pacific	Program
1 a.m.	10 p.m.	The V Show with Bob Valvano
6 a.m.	3 a.m.	Inside Golf
7 a.m.	4 a.m.	Saturday RaceDay
9 a.m.	6 a.m.	College GameDay Tailgate
12 noon	9 a.m.	College GameDay
7 p.m.	3 p.m.	College GameDay Scoreboard
9 p.m.	6 p.m.	GameNight

[edit] Sunday

Eastern	Pacific	Program
1 a.m.	10 p.m.	The V Show with Bob Valvano
6 a.m.	3 a.m.	RaceDay
7 a.m.	4 a.m.	Fantasy Focus
9 a.m.	6 a.m.	The Huddle
11 a.m.	8 a.m.	Countdown to Kickoff
1 p.m.	10 a.m.	NFL on ESPN Radio
8 p.m.	5 p.m.	GameNight

[edit] Out-of-season shows

GameDay
The Baseball Show
The Doug Karsch Show
The Huddle
The John Kincade Show

[edit] Game broadcasts

BCS on ESPN Radio
MLB on ESPN Radio
NBA on ESPN Radio
NIT on ESPN Radio

[edit] Daily segments

[edit] Former shows

SportsRadio ESPN Sunday Magazine (Sundays 8 a.m-10 a.m., 1994-1998)
ESPN The Magazine with Dan Le Batard (Sundays 7 a.m-11 a.m., 1998-2004)
AllNight with Todd Wright (Mon.–Fri. 1 a.m.–6 a.m., 1996–2005)
Bruno-Golic Morning Show (Mon.–Fri. 6 a.m.–10 a.m., 1995–1998)
Pardon the Interruption (Mon.-Fri. 7 p.m.-7:30 p.m., 2001-2004)
The Sports Brothers (Mon.–Fri. 4 p.m.–7 p.m., 2003–2005)
The Tony Kornheiser Show (Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–1 p.m., 1998–2004)
The Fabulous Sports Babe with Nanci Donnellan (Mon.–Fri. 10 a.m.–1 p.m., 1994–1997)

[edit] External References

Radio stations in the Evansville, Indiana market (Arbitron #162)

By Frequency: | (FM) | 88.3 | 89.5 | 90.7 | 91.5 | 92.5 | 93.5 | 93.9 | 94.9 | 95.3 | 96.1 | 97.3 | 98.1 | 99.5 | 101.5 | 101.9 | 102.7 | 103.1 | 104.1 | 105.3 | 106.1 | 107.1 | 107.5