WSSU Announces Cancellation of Athletic Radio Broadcasts

Rams football will not be broadcast on WSNC 90.5 FM in 2009

Christopher Zona

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Winston-Salem State University officials announced on Friday morning that due to financial constraints, WSSU athletic contests will not be broadcast on WSNC 90.5 FM, the campus radio station, effective immediately.

“Within the current economic climate, we have been forced to conserve our financial resources by implementing severe cost-cutting measures. After extensive deliberation and after examining the resources that would be required to broadcast our football contests, we have decided that it would be in the best interest of the University as a whole to conserve those funds, thus forcing us to eliminate our radio broadcasts of Rams football for the 2009 season” WSSU Interim Director of Athletics, Tonia Walker said following the decision.

WSNC 90.5 FM is a 10,000-watt public Jazz and NPR radio station located on the campus of Winston-Salem State University that broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. WSNC’s signal covers the entirety of Forsyth, Stokes, Yadkin, Davidson and Randolph counties as well as part of Guilford County.

An NPR station, WSNC’s programming consists of more than 100 hours of jazz each week in addition to producing more than 20 hours of local, state and national public affairs, news, information and infotainment programs.

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