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11/6: NASCAR leaving 106.7, seeks new home
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
My colleague Rick Minter, who covers NASCAR, has filed the following:
Atlanta area race fans will have to move the radio dial next year to hear broadcasts of NASCAR races and possibly Georgia Tech football. Doug Rice, president and general manager of the Performance Racing Network, said his company and Motor Racing Network, which also broadcasts NASCAR races nationwide, are looking for a new Atlanta affiliate after True Oldies 106.7 informed them that it would not carry the races next year.
Rice said he’s talking to several local stations and is confident a new affiliate can be signed. He said the Atlanta market is a key one for both PRN and MRN.
Mark Richards, operations manager for True Oldies, said that with station’s switch from country music to oldies in February, NASCAR wasn’t the fit for its audience that it once was. He said the station is in negotiations to become the flagship station for Georgia Tech football, which is currently on 790/The Zone.
Where do you think NASCAR should go on the radio?
Comments
By ATL=Loserville
November 6, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
Uh-oh.
First, no radio coverage.
Next, only one race.
Get ready ATL race fans: the spring race will disappear very, very soon.
By Sandy
November 6, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Kicks 101.5
By Nate Boyd
November 6, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this
Peteetong Rock 100.5 YEAH C’MON
By JeffinATL
November 6, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this
790 The Zone sounds like a fit
By Bud
November 6, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this
Wow…perhaps the only thing more boring than watching a bunch of cars drive in a circle over and over again would be to listen to a bunch of cars going in a circle over and over again.
By The Knob
November 9, 2008 2:03 AM | Link to this
Hel-lloo 1160 / WCFO!!
By Ed Thompson
November 9, 2008 7:40 AM | Link to this
Figures that bonehead Mark Richards would try to get Tech football. Who cares about Tech? Certainly not the country crowd. As far back as when he was program destructor at Fox 97, he was totally out of touch with the audience.
By TonyVendome
November 12, 2008 2:08 AM | Link to this
94.9…Clear Channel carried it prior to 106.7 & The Bull needs a bump.
By Mark
November 17, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this
NASCAR on radio?? Borrrrring!! It isn’t even a sport. Now if you ran half the cars in the opposite direction, then THAT would be a sport!!