Expanded Radio Network Coverage Announced for 91st East-West Shrine Game
St. Petersburg, Fla. (PRWEB) December 21, 2015 -- The East-West Shrine Game, the nation’s oldest college football All Star game, will air January 23, 2016 on an expanded radio network including more than 150 Yahoo! Sports Radio stations, on satellite radio and mobile devices via SiriusXM’s NFL Radio (Channel 88) as well as online from http://www.ShrineGame.com. The broadcast will also be available on phones, tablets and other connected devices via the free Tunein app for mobile devices. In total, more than 175 radio stations will carry the game nationally. “Tampa Bay Sports Radio” 620 WDAE will serve as the local “flagship” station for the national broadcast. Network stations are listed online at http://www.ShrineGame.com
Broadcast live from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, Patrick Kinas will lead the broadcast team for the fifth year and will be joined by retired NFL and MLB All-Star Brian Jordan as analyst and Michigan Broadcaster Rick Berkey handling the sidelines. Kinas, the Voice of the Durham Bulls, is a veteran college football and basketball radio and television broadcaster. The game day broadcast begins at 3:15pm ET.
The four and a half hour broadcast is filled with exciting game action, interesting player stories and interviews conducted live from the sidelines and will highlight the important work of Shriners Hospitals for Children as parents and patient ambassadors are featured. The iconic game serves as a major post season NFL showcase for college seniors with proceeds benefitting the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children across the United States, Canada and Mexico that have treated nearly 1.1 million children regardless of a family’s financial status since the 1920s.
The worldwide broadcast is sponsored in part by Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, the official tourism marketing and management organization for Pinellas County, home to 35 miles of award-winning beaches, including four of the top 10 winners in USA TODAY’s “Best Florida Beach” poll, and an arts scene that includes St. Pete’s must-see Dalí Museum.
In addition to the game play-by-play broadcast on January 23rd, the Yahoo! Sports Radio Network will air five hours of game week remote broadcasts January 22 and 23 from the TradeWinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach, the official game headquarters properties. These broadcasts will be hosted by radio sports broadcaster Nick Gryniewicz and will feature players, coaches and other guests.
St. Petersburg based Play-by-Play Sports Properties, LLC produces the broadcasts and Joe Bourdow serves as executive producer.
For affiliation information contact Joe Bourdow (727) 403-9907, joebourdow(at)gmail(dot)com Craig Larson at Yahoo! Sports Radio (713) 479-5373 clarson(at)yahoosportsradio(dot)com.
About The East-West Shrine Game
For more than 90 years, some of football’s greatest athletes and coaches have contributed to the tradition of the East-West Shrine Game. Players like Gale Sayers, Tom Brady, John Elway, Brett Favre and Walter Payton have played in this game. Jerry Glanville, Don Shula, Dick Vermeil, Paul “Bear” Bryant have coached to name only a few. 71 East-West Game players are in the NFL Hall of Fame. In any given year, about 265 East-West Game alumni are on NFL rosters.
About Shriners Hospitals for Children
Shriners Hospitals for Children is changing lives every day through innovative pediatric specialty care, world-class research and outstanding medical education. Twenty-two facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico provide advanced care for children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate. Visit http://www.shrinershospitalsforchildren.com.
About Yahoo! Sports Radio
Based in Houston, Yahoo! Sports Radio reaches an estimated five million people each week on a network of more than 500 terrestrial stations, Sirius Satellite Radio, and mobile platforms. The 24-hour network features top sports personalities, including Steve Czaban, Travis Rodgers, Sean Salisbury, Geoff Ketchum, Dan Wetzel, Pat Forde, Leigh Steinberg and more. In partnership with Yahoo! Sports, Gow Broadcasting, LLC distributes audio content under the Yahoo! Sports Radio brand (http://www.yahoosportsradio.com) to radio stations nationwide, backed by a private investment group which includes Steve Webster, Co-Manager and Co-CEO of Avista Capital, Patrick Dugan, Vice President and General Counsel of Nortex Corporation and David Gow, Chairman and CEO of Gow Broadcasting, L.L.C.
About SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is the world’s largest radio broadcaster measured by revenue and has 29 million subscribers. SiriusXM creates and broadcasts commercial-free music; premier sports talk and live events; comedy; news; exclusive talk and entertainment, and a wide-range of Latin music, sports and talk programming. SiriusXM is available in vehicles from every major car company in the U.S. and on smartphones and other connected devices as well as online at siriusxm.com. SiriusXM radios and accessories are available from retailers nationwide and online at SiriusXM.
About Tunein
Tunein is the most popular way to listen to real radio from around the world. With over 50 million monthly active users, Tunein lets people listen to the world’s sports, news, talk and music from wherever they are. Tunein has over 100,000 radio stations and more than four million on-demand programs streaming from every continent; and is available across 200+ connected devices.
About TradeWinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach
Overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, the sister properties of the TradeWinds Island Resorts – the Island Grand and the Guy Harvey Outpost - a TradeWinds Beach Resort – provide the ideal Florida beach experience. With more than 700 guest rooms and suites, limitless beachfront recreation, meeting spaces, outstanding children’s programs, and fine and casual dining, the TradeWinds Island Resorts offer vacationers and meeting guest’s sophisticated service in a relaxed, tropical atmosphere. http://www.JustLetGo.com
About Visit St. Pete/Clearwater
Visit St. Pete/Clearwater is the official tourism marketing and management organization for Pinellas County, the number one tourist destination on the Gulf Coast of the United States. The area is home to 35 miles of award-winning beaches, including 4 of the top 10 winners in USA TODAY’s “Best Florida Beach” poll, and an arts scene that includes St. Pete’s must-see Dalí Museum. See all the possibilities at LiveAmplified.com
About Play-by-Play Sports Properties, LLC
St. Petersburg, Florida based Play-by-Play Sports Properties, LLC handles broadcast production along with ticket and sponsorship sales for the East-West Shrine Game each January and the St. Petersburg International Baseball spring training series held each March. PBP also owns and operates a multichannel online radio station: RadioStPete.com.
Nikki Devereux, East-West Shrine Game, http://www.shrinegame.com, +1 (727) 214-1555, [email protected]
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