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Tar Heel Sports Network
The Tar Heel Sports Network is a radio network in the United States dedicated to broadcasting live events and programming relating to North Carolina Tar Heels athletics. It is operated by Tar Heel Sports Properties, a property of LEARFIELD, which manages the multimedia rights for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The network's flagship station is WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The network consists mainly of local radio affiliates within North Carolina, southern Virginia, and northern South Carolina, and also includes Sirius XM satellite radio, and streaming platforms including GoHeels.com, The Varsity Network and TuneIn.
The network began in the early 1960s when WSOC in Charlotte made the first attempt to create a radio network for Tar Heel men's basketball outside the Triangle.
In 1965, WSOC owner Cox Broadcasting sold the network to Village Broadcasting, owner of WCHL in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. WCHL became the flagship station. Village Broadcasting gradually evolved into VilCom, and sold the network in the late 1990s.
Bill Currie, known as "The Mouth of the South" was instrumental in developing the original statewide network in the 1960s and was the network's first play-by-play announcer until departing to KDKA-TV in 1971.
The network's long-time "Voice of the Tar Heels" for football and men's basketball games was Woody Durham from 1971 until his retirement in 2011.
Mick Mixon partnered with Durham as the color analyst from 1989-2005 for both football and basketball before departing to take the job as the play-by-play announcer for the Carolina Panthers.
Jones Angell succeeded Durham in the booth as "the Voice of the Tar Heels" for both football and basketball beginning with the 2011 football season after working with the network in various roles for the previous 11 years, including baseball play-by-play from 2004-2011.
Tar Heel Sports Network
The Tar Heel Sports Network is a radio network in the United States dedicated to broadcasting live events and programming relating to North Carolina Tar Heels athletics. It is operated by Tar Heel Sports Properties, a property of LEARFIELD, which manages the multimedia rights for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The network's flagship station is WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The network consists mainly of local radio affiliates within North Carolina, southern Virginia, and northern South Carolina, and also includes Sirius XM satellite radio, and streaming platforms including GoHeels.com, The Varsity Network and TuneIn.
The network began in the early 1960s when WSOC in Charlotte made the first attempt to create a radio network for Tar Heel men's basketball outside the Triangle.
In 1965, WSOC owner Cox Broadcasting sold the network to Village Broadcasting, owner of WCHL in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. WCHL became the flagship station. Village Broadcasting gradually evolved into VilCom, and sold the network in the late 1990s.
Bill Currie, known as "The Mouth of the South" was instrumental in developing the original statewide network in the 1960s and was the network's first play-by-play announcer until departing to KDKA-TV in 1971.
The network's long-time "Voice of the Tar Heels" for football and men's basketball games was Woody Durham from 1971 until his retirement in 2011.
Mick Mixon partnered with Durham as the color analyst from 1989-2005 for both football and basketball before departing to take the job as the play-by-play announcer for the Carolina Panthers.
Jones Angell succeeded Durham in the booth as "the Voice of the Tar Heels" for both football and basketball beginning with the 2011 football season after working with the network in various roles for the previous 11 years, including baseball play-by-play from 2004-2011.