Keitih Cieplicki and the Orange women's basketball team will be on WFBL in 2004-05.
WFBL to Broadcast Women's Basketball
9/21/2004 4:09:27 PM | Women's Basketball
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Syracuse fans will have the opportunity to listen to every Orange women’s basketball game on WFBL 1390 AM beginning in 2004-05. The new flagship of Syracuse women’s hoops, WFBL will feature complete coverage, including a 15-minute pre-game and post-game show, along with the weekly Coach Cieplicki Show.
Brian Higgins, a 2004 Syracuse graduate, will call all the action for the Orange and serve as the host of the coach’s show. Higgins is already known to some SU fans after serving as the play-by-play voice of the national champion men’s lacrosse team last spring.
“We are happy to add WFBL as a partner in our women’s basketball radio coverage,” Syracuse Director of Athletics Jake Crouthamel said. “We feel that in order to expand and grow the interest in our women’s basketball program that we have to take advantage of the opportunity WFBL presents. Their signal strength and commercial status will allow us to reach a greater listening audience and develop more corporate partnerships.”
WFBL operates at 5,000 watts, reaching both the Syracuse metro and the immediate Central New York markets. The station is already a part of the Syracuse sporting community as the broadcast rights holders of the Syracuse SkyChiefs. The oldest broadcast radio station in the area, WFBL originally signed on in 1924. In December of 2003, the station changed format to all news and talk.
“We’ve always enjoyed a great promotional relationship with Syracuse athletics ,” WFBL General Manager Doug Fleniken said. “We’re looking forward to carrying and promoting the women’s basketball program. We certainly think the program has the potential to be very exciting and of great interest to the community.”
WFBL replaces WJPZ, one of Syracuse’s two student stations, as the flagship for SU women’s basketball. WJPZ covered Orange basketball for the past 20 seasons. After broadcasting the team independently, WJPZ served as the flagship station for Syracuse women’s basketball from 2000-2004.
“We are very appreciative of WJPZ’s efforts in broadcasting our women’s basketball program,” Crouthamel said. “They have done an outstanding job in their coverage and this move in no way suggests any dissatisfaction with their performance. Hopefully they will continue to cover the program, creating a dual broadcast on the women’s side much like we have with the men’s program with our radio network and WAER.”
The Orange begins play on November 19 at Manley Field House versus Niagara. The team returns seven letterwinners from last season and adds the 24th-ranked recruiting class in the nation.
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