Don't worry! We still cover sports...

Most of you are aware of our programming changes that went into effect Monday, February 25. WKCT has added the Sean Hannity Show, which airs live from 2 to 5 p.m., and pushed Drive Time back to 5 p.m. One of the unfortunate fallouts is that we had to do with our sports programs at 5 p.m.

Drive Time, along with Mornings with Darrell and Al, is a flagship local program for our station. It actually began as a two-hour version in 2000. In 2001, we were able to acquire Sportsline with Wes Strader that ran Tuesdays at 5 p.m. Later that year, Steve and I began The Right Call that aired on Mondays and Thursdays. Slowly but surely the sports programs started taking over that second hour of Drive Time, first with The Horsepower Racing Hour and then The Friday Night Sports Page.

Personally, hosting those two programs was a lot of fun. Steve and I developed a pretty good on-air chemistry and we had a number of "lively" discussions. The listener interaction was outstanding on those programs as well as on Sportsline and Horsepower. Dumping our sports programs was tough, but we felt like adding Sean Hannity to our powerful weekday lineup, along with D&A, Laura Ingraham and Rush, made too much sense. Moving Drive Time to 5:00, when most people are actually "driving home" made sense too. We appreciate the loyal listeners to these programs and hope you'll stick with us on your drive home. Drive Time has the flexibility to cover a number of topics, and sports will certainly be among them.

Nonetheless, the reason for this blog is to remind you that just because we've removed those programs doesn't mean we're not covering sports anymore. I think we'd all go through withdrawal. We'll still talk about WKU, minor league baseball in BG, and high school sports.

In fact, this is one of the craziest times of the year for the latter as the postseason starts this week. The boys' 14th District is as wide open as it has ever been. Six-time defending champ Warren Central looks vulnerable but will be tough to beat on their home court. Greenwood is the hottest team in the 4th Region. Bowling Green won the regular season by going 4-2 and Warren East should be the hungriest. It should be fun to say the least. We'll be carrying all of the tournament games, boys and girls. Here's the schedule:

Tuesday
Bowling Green vs Warren Central (Girls) - 6 p.m.
Bowling Green vs Warren Central (Boys) to follow

Wednesday
Warren East vs Greenwood (Girls) - 6 p.m.
Warren East vs Greenwood (Boys) - to follow

Friday
Girls Championship 7 p.m.

Saturday
Boys Championship 7 p.m.

It should also make for great turnouts with the boys and girls playing on the same days.

Hope you all enjoy the tournaments and the new weekday lineup. If you have any questions or comments, send them to chad@93wkct.com.

Chad Young
Program Director, WKCT-AM