I'm 2 hours from campus and can't get our men's basketball game on the radio. On the other hand, I can get an hour of IU pre-game coverage on multiple stations.
More evidence of our AD being a joke under Burke
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Thanks for the online audio link.
I wonder how many other B1Gteams have as poor coverage as we do.
I wonder how many other B1Gteams have as poor coverage as we do.
Huh? This isn't 1964. You really think kids listen to basketball games on the radio?
You think kids listen to the radio outside of a few minutes in their parents car....and even then?
Disagree. We need the Purdue name all over the state and beyond. The radio is just one way to do that. It is effective. But we need to be on FM stations and not just the AM stations. Other universities still take radio as an important medium and we should too.
You can get the games online....for free....on the radio.
Why does expanding physical radio coverage help us at all? Do people really get in their cars to listen to a game? If you have a car in this day and age you likely have a smart phone too and can listen from the comfort of ANYWHERE....not just your driveway.
Super out of touch here....
I'm gonna disagree. I was driving home (to Indianapolis) from Chicago area during the first half of the Nebraska game. There isn't a single on-air radio station that reaches Chicago that is part of the Purdue radio network. By the time I got closer to Gary, I could pick up a Hammond station, but that was on AM so the quality was trash - i.e. the drive-near-a-telephone-poll-and-get-static kind of poor quality.
Once I got out of range of Hammond's station, I was again without ability to get the game on the radio until I could pick up a Lafayette station. I was within 60 miles of Purdue traveling on an interstate (where radio stations work reasonably well) and couldn't pick up the game. That's pathetic, and entirely on the Athletic Department for allowing that to be the case.
Yes, you can stream radio. You can't always use a phone though - some people have data restrictions (as wifi isn't viable in a car unless your car offers it), sometimes you need your phone for calls, sometimes you need your phone for directions, sometimes you don't want to have to fumble with your phone hunting for a station on Tune-In while you're driving 75 mph down the highway. Radio is considerably more practical and convenient.
Hell I can't even get a signal in Mackey from the bb flagship 95.7. I can get every other Lafayette station, but not 95.7.
