Football teams are scheduled to kickoff the Indiana high school season this Friday. The GIANT fm Sports WREB broadcast schedule has been a source of controversy and conversation.
3 Towers Broadcasting is the name of our corporation that recently acquired WREB. I know we haven’t had nearly the chance to meet many face-to-face. Between cleaning, painting, moving the studio, etc., it’s been a hectic few weeks. I hope we can remedy that through upcoming festivals, events, games or even people coming by to visit our new location, 8 North Jackson.
Okay, back to the sports broadcast schedule. From the immediate changes you may have noticed in the music, developing changes in news and morning show, we’re trying to find the ways that we can serve the communities that listen to WREB and read our new online news source called Putnam County Post.
An announced change in the upcoming football broadcast schedule sparked a lot of reaction. As we compared and contrasted the other markets that we serve we tried to decide what would be best to do at WREB. We knew the station had a history of broadcasting a county-based games schedule. As you well know, we looked at going away from that. Now, as you’ll see below, the schedule that our play-by-play announcer, Doug Wokoun, has prepared is set to start Friday when Cloverdale visits South Putnam.
First, my thanks to those of you who reached out and told us what you wanted. Granted, it wasn’t always enjoyable. Let’s face it. Complaints and criticism usually aren’t. And it may come again in some fashion down the road as we make decisions on programming and other factors. Nothing comes to mind that will spark reaction quite like high school sports.
I’ve been broadcasting high school sports for nearly 30 years. Most of those with our station in Shelbyville. Some back in my home state of Illinois. I look forward to it as much as anyone. And I'm always open to taking phone calls and messages and having conversations with you. If you can catch me at the office or on the sidewalk somewhere, that's even better. I'm just young enough I can and do message and text. I'm old enough that talking is better.
We do hope you’ll contact us if you’re a business, industry, organization that would like to get your products and services out there to the public. Looks like a passionate Putnam County sports audience will be listening.
August 20, Cloverdale at South Putnam
August 27, Southmont at North Putnam
September 3, South Putnam at North Putnam
September 10, Greencastle at South Putnam
September 17, North Putnam at Cloverdale
September 24, West Vigo at South Putnam
October 1, Greencastle at Cloverdale
October 8, Owen Valley at Greencastle
October 15, North Putnam at Greencastle
GIANT fm Sports WREB pregame begins at 6:45 pm.
Kickoff is set for 7:00 pm.
