Colorado State Athletics Announces Expansion of Radio Broadcast Coverage

The brand new agreements embody a major enchancment to radio protection within the Denver Metro space

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Colorado State Athletics and its unique multimedia rightsholder, LEARFIELD’s Rams Sports activities Properties, introduced in the present day a contract extension between the Rams and Townsquare Media NoCo and a brand new relationship with Bonneville Denver / ESPN Denver 1600.

These agreements will create a considerably bigger and improved footprint for followers to listen to radio broadcasts from Fort Collins by means of the Denver metro space.

“We’re thrilled to have the ability to prolong our relationship with Townsquare Media for expanded protection all through northern Colorado and start a brand new partnership with Bonneville for considerably improved availability within the Denver Metro space on the Rams Radio Community,” mentioned Joe Parker, Colorado State College Director of Athletics. “As we progressed by means of this renewal course of, it was necessary that we join with companions to assist cowl our state, and we’re grateful to LEARFIELD for bringing that imaginative and prescient to fruition.”

Starting in August, native followers will discover soccer and males’s basketball sport motion on K99 FM, increasing the printed attain from Fort Collins to the northern Denver metro space. Girls’s basketball sport broadcasts will proceed to air on Energy 102.9 FM, with out interruption

Further promotional assist will probably be supplied throughout the Townsquare NoCo radio station group which incorporates Retro 102.5, 99.9 The Level, 94.3 The X, Energy 102.9 FM and their numerous different media platforms together with digital, social media, stations apps which interact 500,000 individuals in NoCo, and the most important native music pageant, Style of Fort Collins.

“Now we have 30 native staff who stay proper right here in NoCo, we’re Rams Sports activities followers identical to our viewers, all of CSU and our native enterprise neighborhood at giant – we’re thrilled to proceed this super strategic partnership,” mentioned Evan Harrison, President for Townsquare Media NoCo.

Denver-based followers will get pleasure from full radio protection of CSU soccer and males’s basketball video games throughout your complete metro space with ESPN Denver 1600, along with choose girls’s basketball matchups. Denver’s main sports activities station, 104.3 The Fan, may also carry a choose schedule of Rams video games every season.

“We’re very excited for ESPN Denver 1600 to turn out to be the Mile Excessive Metropolis’s radio residence of the Colorado State Rams,” mentioned Raj Sharan, Program Director of ESPN Denver 1600 and 104.3 The Fan. “We’re desperate to hear in as Brian Roth calls the motion in Coach Norvell’s first yr whereas Coach Medved and Coach Williams look to proceed constructing on their successful seasons.”

Each K99 and ESPN Denver 1600 additionally will air Rams soccer and basketball coaches’ reveals every week throughout their respective seasons, that includes newly appointed soccer head coach Jay Norvell, males’s basketball head coach, Niko Medved, and ladies’s basketball head coach, Ryun Williams.

Brian Roth will proceed as “Voice of the Rams” for soccer and males’s basketball. Roth additionally hosts and produces the weekly Colorado State Insider Podcast throughout the athletic season. The podcast could be discovered on the CSU Rams Podcasts Homepage or on The Varsity Community on-line or through The Varsity Community app, the place all stay Rams sport broadcasts will also be streamed.

New to the soccer broadcast group for the 2022 season is former Ram linebacker Ricky Brewer. Brewer will fill the printed group’s analyst position, changing the retiring Mark Driscoll. A Denver native, Brewer was a three-time letterman and all-conference performer for the Rams between 2007-10 and at present serves as an assistant principal and athletic director at a highschool in Denver.

Marty Cesario, and Kevin McGlue for choose video games, will proceed to supply perception from the sector.

On the boys’s basketball aspect, Adam Nigon returns in his analyst position alongside Roth, and Matt Wozniak can have all of the motion from girls’s basketball.

The Colorado State Sports activities Community additionally boasts 16 radio associates for followers to comply with the Rams stay motion across the state. Rams Sports activities Properties is the domestically primarily based LEARFIELD group which manages all broadcast operations and the company accomplice platform for Colorado State Athletics as a part of the general multimedia rights relationship.