The Shaw Department of Intercollegiate Athletics has launched the Shaw Bear Sports Radio Network, which will begin airing Shaw football games on August 28.  The network currently consists of 10 stations and Shaw football games can be heard throughout the state of North Carolina, most notably in the Triangle, Charlotte, the Triad (Greensboro, High Point, Winston-Salem), Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Goldsboro and Eastern North Carolina.  The games can also be heard in other states including Virginia, where games can be heard in the Hampton Roads area and Richmond-Petersburg and in the Baltimore/Washington area.  The department will look into expanding the network for the upcoming basketball season as well.

“We are extremely excited about the Shaw Bear Sports Radio Network,” said Donal Ware, Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Information/Marketing.  “The network gives a chance for our loyal alumni, fans and supporters in areas such as Charlotte, the Triad, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Baltimore, (MD), Washington (DC), Hampton Roads and Richmond (VA) to listen to follow our teams and our [athletics] department.  It also gives our students at our cape centers around the state in Ahoskie, Fayetteville, High Point, Greenville and Kannapolis a chance to follow our teams as well.  We realize that they can’t make it to every game so we feel this is a way to reach out to them and bring the games to them so-to-speak.

“This is our first venture into radio networking but we feel confident it will be very successful and we will look into expanding the network to include other cities and areas in the very near future.”

The network will broadcast all 10 of Shaw’s football games this season.

To advertise on the Shaw Bear Radio Network or for more information, contact the Shaw University Sports Information/Marketing office at (919) 546-8279.