PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 15, 2017
REDSKINS ADD WMAL TO REDSKINS RADIO NETWORK
FOR GAME DAY BROADCASTS
LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. – The Washington Redskins announced today that WMAL will carry Redskins Radio Network broadcasts in the Washington, D.C. metro area on game days, beginning with the 2017 NFL season.
The distribution on WMAL’s 105.9 FM and 630 AM will supplement the team’s flagship home on ESPN980 AM (WTEM), 92.7 FM (WWXT) and 94.3 FM (WWXX) in the market, as well the broadcast’s availability on the official Redskins mobile app.
The broadcasts represent a homecoming of sorts, as the Redskins will return to the same WMAL airwaves on which the team’s broadcasts aired as early as 1942. In addition to carrying game broadcasts, WMAL will carry an hour of the Redskins Radio Network pregame show as well as an hour of Redskins Radio Network postgame programming.
“We are very excited to be partnering with WMAL to provide Redskins fans enhanced coverage of our games,” said Terry Bateman, Redskins Executive Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer. “WMAL and the Redskins organization have a long history together spanning six decades of the station carrying Redskins games. We have maintained a strong relationship over the years and now look forward to working together again to provide comprehensive coverage of Redskins football for the Washington market.”
“We are excited and honored to be working with the Redskins again,” said Jake McCann, WMAL Vice President/Market Manager. “The Redskins and WMAL were partners during the team’s three glorious Super Bowl winning seasons. We look forward to bringing the combined assets of WMAL to this exciting, renewed partnership”.
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ABOUT THE REDSKINS: Headquartered at Inova Sports Performance Center at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Virginia, and owned by Daniel Snyder, the historic Washington Redskins Football Club has won five World Championship titles including the 1937 and 1942 National Football League Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII and XXVI. Founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves in Massachusetts, the team changed its name to the Redskins in 1933 and relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1937. Since then, the team has become one of the most recognizable professional sports franchises in history, featuring multiple Hall of Fame coaches, 19 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (with 10 others who also were Redskins) and becoming the first team in the NFL with an official marching band and fight song, “Hail to the Redskins.” The Redskins have been owned by Dan Snyder since 1999, and beginning in 1997, began playing their home games at FedExField in Landover, Md.
Contacts: Tony Wyllie [email protected] 703-726-7135
Ross Taylor [email protected] 703-726-7368
Zena Lewis [email protected] 703-726-7422
Tish Carmona [email protected] 703-726-7077
