The St. Louis Cardinals and Withers Broadcasting Companies have signed a five-year agreement bringing team coverage to WHET-FM, US 97.7 for the Marion, Carbondale, and Herrin areas of Southern Illinois.
“We always monitor all of our markets to see how we can provide better service to our communities,” said Christopher Hugo, GM of Withers Broadcasting’s Illinois Properties. “We saw an opportunity in Southern Illinois to offer simultaneous city-grade FM coverage over the Marion, Herrin, Carbondale, and Lake of Egypt areas. We knew this was important to the Cardinals and so we proposed moving the Cardinals to 97.7 FM.”
The new agreement with Withers will mean WHET will broadcast all Cardinals spring training, regular season, and postseason games offered by the Cardinals Radio Network, as well as the Cardinals Countdown to Opening Day Show.
