From the Game Notes:

Ohio Sports Network From Learfield Flagship Station .......................................WXTQ-105.5 FM (Athens)

Play-by-Play ............................................................Marty Bannister

Color Analyst ..............................................................Rob Cornelius

Game Broadcast Network Affiliates ...........Athens-WXTQ 105.5 FM

..............................................................Cambridge-WOUC 89.1 FM

...............................................................Chillicothe-WOUH 91.9 FM

.................................................................Cincinnati-WAOL 99.5 FM

..............................................................Columbus-WZCB 105.3 FM

.....................................................................Dayton-WYDB 94.5 FM

.....................................................................Ironton-WOUL 89.1 FM

..................................................................Marietta-WMOA 1490 AM

......................................................McConnelsville-WJAW 100.9 FM

..................................................................St. Mary’s WJAW 630 AM

................................................................Zanesville-WOUZ 90.1 FM

Cincinnati-WAOL 99.5 FM is actually based in Ripley, Ohio in Brown County, along the Ohio River and the signal is not very strong. Ripley is in the Cincinnati media market but very much on the eastern fringe. Hopefully other Southwest Ohio Bobcats have better reception than I do for this!

Well,at least you keep an open mind.

Well, I didn't know there was a target audience for Brietbart Sports, but now I do.

Same for Dayton, which is a pleasant surprise. It is not the same station that Marty hosts a weekday show on, it must be two separate setups.

My main point was, why do they have to cut away to NPR and not stay with the sports broadcast. My 2° point was just fishing. I see I caught a couple ...Lo siento!

That station is only part of the football network. For 10 years or so. Owner's daughter was an Ohio athlete.

Ah, yes, that was the magnus opus of Ohio networks!

I suppose the reason is obvious to some, but I have always wondered why WOUB isn’t the OU flagship. Seeing all those regional affiliates makes it seem more odd. What’s up with that?

If memory serves, it was the flagship station are one point in time, back in the days of Joe Tait as the "Voice of the Bobcats."

You're just too young and wet behind the ears, BTC. There are a few other old farts on here old enough to remember those days. Joe Tait later was the voice of several professional teams in Cleveburg. When I returned to campus in the fall of 1966, after my two years of active duty in the U.S. Navy, Joe Tait was my mentor at WOUB where I did some sports shows. One I remember was a college football scoreboard I did with Randy Greene on Saturday afternoons, and a Great Moments in Sports Series. I still have the latter on tape, which I've been planning to digitize. Joe Tait does the intros on those shows introducing yours truly, your humble sports reporter! ;-) A show that you would particularly like is one I did featuring the Portsmouth Spartans against the Chicago Bears in the NFL championship game in 1932. Part of that show attempted to recreate a little of the feel of that strange game played inside Chicago Stadium because of bad weather. After I digitize it, I'll post it here for your enjoyment, BTC.

No, I'm not actually old enough to have attended the game. I just recreated it from newspaper accounts. And, I did, later have the opportunity to interview the Portsmouth QB in that game, a man named Dutch Clark.

More about Joe Tait here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Tait

More about the 1932 "Champtionship" Game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_Playoff_Game

More about Dutch Clark:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Clark

Like someone above mentioned, the pre-post and ingame stuff needs advertising money to sustain what it does. That's not the mission. Why are the games on affiliates? That is just filling in slots on repeater antennaes in markets where they weren't able to actually sell the package. I live in Chillicothe. My wife works for the university branch. There is literally ZERO humans at WOUH. Putting football and basketball on is just the flip of a switch in Athens and is good promotion for the university. The games attract a tad different clientele to the airwaves than the typical NPR show.