(01-04-2017 02:47 PM)APPrising Wrote:  

(01-04-2017 11:58 AM)CajunAmos Wrote:  For the Cajuns;

Radio is covered by ESPN1420.com for all of the sports. They cover all of the games for football, men's basketball, baseball, and softball, and about half of the women's basketball games. When all the games were double headers, they covered all of the women's conference games.

Print coverage is primarily The Daily Advertiser (http://www.theadvertiser.com/sports/) with occasional articles in the Advocate (http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/) and even less occasional articles in The Times Picayune (http://neworleanstimespicayune.la.newsmemory.com/).

Isn't the Bird of Paradise poster on here the same guy that does your radio coverage?

Yep, Jay Walker is the primary broadcaster for all sports on the Ragin Cajun sports network throught ESPN1420. The station is owned by TownSquare Media in Lafayette which has a group of six stations mixed across AM and FM. When you have conflicts in schedules, there are a couple of other ESPN1420 personalities who host local sports talk shows that handle conflicts. We've had as many as four games in different locations with different hosts on different stations being broadcast on the same day. When they started broadcasting every Cajun softball game live a few years ago they were the first commercial station in the country to do so (while there were some university owned stations I think). All of the stations stream over the internet so all games are global as well.

The only beef locally is some games and sports are only on the AM affiliate which is low power with local area coverage. We keep hoping they move the primary station to one of their FM stations instead, although for football and men's basketball they typically simulcast on both AM and FM stations.