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Along with sister stations WWJ 950 AM and WXYT 1270 AM, 97.1 The Ticket is the flagship station of all four of Detroit's professional sports teams and two college teams: the Detroit Tigers baseball team, [4] the Detroit Pistons basketball team, [5] the Detroit Red Wings hockey team, [6] the Detroit Lions football team, [7] and the Michigan Wolverines football and men's basketball (NCAA) teams.
On November 6, the simulcast was renamed "97.1 The Ticket". WKRK took the call letters WXYT-FM in the process. The only mention of the 1270 facility came during the top of the hour legal station identification. Another change was the names of the midday show to "The Big Show" and the afternoon show switched from "The Sports Inferno" to the last ...
Before merging with WXYT-FM, WXYT/1270 was the sole flagship station from 2001–2007. From 1964–2000, Detroit's WJR was the Tigers' exclusive radio flagship. As a maximum-power clear-channel station, Tigers games on WJR could be received from hundreds of miles away on warm, clear nights.
July 18, 2018, Valenti welcomed other 97.1 The Ticket radio personalities Mike "Stoney" Stone and Bob "Wojo" Wojnowski to do a 64-team bracket style tournament for Valenti Show radio bits and songs. The tournament was held again in 2019, but canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to most of the station’s hosts working from home because of COVID-19.
Michigan radio sideline reporter Doug Karsch will handle the play-by-play. Former U-M offensive lineman Jon Jansen will handle the analysis.
The current flagship radio station for the Tigers is WXYT-FM, at 97.1 FM. [1] Dan Dickerson calls play-by-play. [2]Bobby Scales and Andy Dirks rotate as the primary color analysts as of the 2024 season. [3]
He is the co-host of Karsch & Anderson (formerly the Big Show), a radio talk show heard weekdays on WXYT-FM "97.1 The Ticket" in Detroit, Michigan.Doug also hosted The Brady Hoke Radio Show, a weekly syndicated Michigan Wolverines football discussion program, along with Jim Brandstatter, and varying assistant coaches and players which airs live on Thursdays during the college football season.
Michael "Stoney" Stone (born December 29, 1958) [1] is a long-time American radio host that helped pioneer the sports radio format in Detroit, Michigan.He is best known as the former host for Stoney and Wojo at WDFN from 1994 to 2009, then became the morning show host at WXYT-FM from 2009 until 2024 where he stepped down from full-time host to fill-in host.