USC Signs National Deal with ESPN Radio

by srr50 on Apr 16, 2025 9:06 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

ESPN Radio has reached a multi-year agreement to broadcast all USC Trojan home football games nationally. This is the first exclusive national contract for radio rights that ESPN has entered into, but it most certainly won't be the last. ESPN will offer USC football first to its over 300 network affiliates throughout the nation.

ESPN's parent company, Disney, loves "synergy" in all aspects of the business, and there are rumors that ESPN would like to capture the exclusive radio rights for other individual programs as well as BCS conferences, which would feed into the cross-promotion that the WWL so loves.

The ESPN Radio-USC agreement also provides Spanish-language rights for ESPN Deportes Radio, the country's first and only 24/7 national Spanish-language sports radio network, with every USC home and away game being cleared in the LA market.

Right now, Notre Dame's agreement with IMG is the only other national radio rights agreement in existence.

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Hmmmmm

Any chance UT gets in on a similar deal with the WWL???

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by coolhorn on Apr 16, 2025 9:19 PM CDT reply actions

IMG College has radio marketing rights to UT

so I suppose they could expand it nationally if they desired.

by srr50 on Apr 16, 2025 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions

I caught the last part of the OSU - UT baseball game on ESPN radio in houston this weekend. Is that due to the LHN, or have our baseball games always been on ESPN in houston and i just didnt notice?

by UT_BKC on Apr 16, 2025 9:43 PM CDT reply actions

The station is part of the statewide Longhorn Radio Network

Stations are not required to carry baseball, but some pick up games as additional inventory

by srr50 on Apr 16, 2025 9:45 PM CDT up reply actions

Any excuse

To post Song Girls.

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by Sailor Ripley on Apr 16, 2025 9:58 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

This is my favorite picture of Song Girls:

by mr.manager on Apr 16, 2025 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions

I can't ID the photo

Was this after Vince’s winning TD, or the final two-point conversion?

One of the four ladies appears to be enjoying our score.

by edsp on Apr 16, 2025 11:50 PM CDT up reply actions

That's the funny part.

The first two are looking at her like,“WTF is she doing?”

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by Dustin Brockelman on Apr 17, 2025 11:21 AM CDT up reply actions

There was a viral outbreak

of photos of events like the Hindenburg docking with her inserted in the lower right hand corner in that pose right after the MNC game. It was hilarious!

by boorad on Apr 17, 2025 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Yup

http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2006/01/usc-song-girl-has-cheered-at-wrong.html

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by Sailor Ripley on Apr 17, 2025 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions

Sooooooo

Does this mean that no one will ever hear another USC game on the radio again?

I’m just saying…

by texitect on Apr 16, 2025 10:41 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

eggs benedict . . .

well joe walsh fans know the rest

by Noonan100 on Apr 17, 2025 12:25 AM CDT reply actions

methinks

the one on the left should be given a medical hardship, I’m sure USC has a redshirt freshman that can do a better job…

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by UTLawGrad on Apr 17, 2025 1:02 PM CDT reply actions

I wonder if UCLA, tired of perennial little-brother status, will claim this as the last straw and bolt the conference.

“It’s not about the money,” UCLA’s president will say, his Athletic Director standing calmly to one side, nodding like a life-sized bobblehead. “It’s about doing what’s best for the University of California at Los Angeles. We are making a hundred-year decision, here, and, just like Rick Neuheisel and Karl Dorrell, we will make the correct call.”

Then he will introduce the AD. “Thank you all for coming. After days and days of intense research and planning, we have concluded that the Sunbelt Conference would be damn lucky to have us. We have an open invitation and we will accept it just as soon as we can find it again.”

The following message will appear along the ESPN crawl: “Sunbelt Conference Officials: We have no idea WTF they are talking about. We are happy with however many teams we already have.”

“We believe the newly-invigorated Sunbelt Conference now, um -” he turns to the school president, covers his mouth, and whispers something inaudible before turning back to the podium and continuing - “now 13 teams strong, is the future of college football. It has the highest academics, the strongest recruiting, the best bowl record, the most national championships—”

The school president stops fiddling with his bow tie long enough to shoulder the AD out of the way. “Look, people, what he’s trying to say is that this is not about the money or the TV rights or the radio deal or USC or whatever. It’s about us, okay? We don’t want to be here anymore. We’ve already proved that we own - OWN - this conference, and there’s little reason for us to hang out here with the little people any longer. We want to move up to bigger and better things, and we feel like the, uh, what was it? The Sunshine Conference is—”

“Sunbelt,” the AD helpfully chimes in.

“~~-whatever. Is the best place for us. We expect ESPN here any minute to start renegotiating the~~-”

“Negotiating,” the AD says. "They currently have no contract, so it’s not a ‘re-negotiation.’ "

The president pauses. “A hundred years, you say?” He cocks an eyebrow at the AD, who is busy staring at something on his shoe.

To err is human...but humans have such low standards.

by adt2 on Apr 17, 2025 1:12 PM CDT reply actions