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Mississippi Public Broadcasting Radio
Network to Broadcast Friday Night Under the LightsTM
Football Scoreboard
show
Jackson – Robco, Inc. has officially
announced that after negotiations with Mississippi
Public Broadcasting the Friday Night Under the
LightsTM football
radio program will now be broadcast across the MPB
radio network. The affiliation with MBP creates
the largest and greatest coverage Friday night
scoreboard network in Mississippi.
“This is a very exciting time for us,” stated Russ
Robinson, President of the Friday Night Under the
LightsTM radio
program. “We’ve worked for five years to bring
every Friday in the fall the best football
scoreboard show in Mississippi. Our affiliation
with Mississippi Public Broadcasting now gives us
the widest coverage as well. There won’t be a spot
in Mississippi now that someone wanting to keep up
with Mississippi football won’t be able to pick up
the show.”
The Mississippi Public Broadcasting radio network
consists of eight radio stations in Biloxi,
Booneville, Bude, Greenwood, Jackson, Meridian,
Mississippi State and Oxford-University. Each
station is 100,000 watts giving the MPB radio
network a coverage area of 85% of Mississippi.
Combined with the Friday Night Under the LightsTM
tentative commercial network the
Friday scoreboard show will effectively cover the
state including select areas of Alabama, Louisiana
and Tennessee.
Along with the over-the-air broadcast the Friday
Night Under the LightsTM
scoreboard show broadcasts live across the Internet
at http://www.fnutl.com. Included on the website
are all the updated scores, podcasts from previous
weeks. The Friday Night crew stays in contact with
online fans via Instant message with AOL, Yahoo, and
MSN by looking for the online name FNUTL.
The Friday Night Under the LightsTM
scoreboard show will start on August 22nd and will
continue through the playoffs. The radio show will
take a week off for the state championship in
Jackson and finish with the Mississippi-Alabama
All-Star game.
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