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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.
In February 2009, the station announced it would broadcast games for the Detroit Pistons, beginning with the 2009-2010 NBA season. All of these play-by-play rights remain with WXYT-FM to this day. When 1270 was not simulcasting 97.1 FM (mostly during live sporting events with restricted contracts), 1270 used a different set of station IDs.
Detroit Tigers center fielder Riley Greene (31) celebrates a double against L. A. Dodgers during the ninth inning at Comerica Park in Detroit on Saturday, July 13, 2024.
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.
There’s a new sports talk radio station in town. iHeartMedia Dallas on Monday announced the official changeover of 97.1-FM to a re-branded “hot talk” radio format called “The Freak ...
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.
CHICAGO – For anyone under 30, the hottest ticket to snag after Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention was for the “Hotties for Harris” afterparty, where drag queens danced in front of ...
Former names of the network include "The WXYT 1270 Detroit Lions Radio Network", "The WKRK Detroit Lions Radio Network", and "The Live 97.1 Detroit Lions Radio Network" (WKRK-FM is WXYT-FM's former callsign, and Live 97.1 is one of its former brandings). WXYT-FM was the Lions' flagship from 2004–2015.