MSU Football With Matt Griffin TV Show On The Air

Since 1979, Racer fans have been able to keep up with the Racers by tuning into the weekly coaches television show. The 2007 season for the MSU football and basketball television shows mark a change in the host of the show and where the program can be seen.

Josh Perigo, MSU's director of sales and broadcasting is the new host of the Racer television programs, taking over for Dave Winder, assistant athletics director for media relations who had hosted the shows since 1993.

Murray State Broadcast Media Services produces television shows for Racer football and basketball that are released to various outlets in the region. For the first time since 2000 the Racer shows return to WPSD channel 6 in Paducah. The shows will air on WPSD each Sunday night at 11:30 p.m. As the flagship station, WPSD is seen throughout western Kentucky, southeast Missouri, southern Illinois and western Tennessee.

The MSU television programs are also seen on New Wave Cable (Channel 19) in Calloway County, Graves County, Marshall County, Madisonville and Fulton. Mediacomm cable also airs the MSU shows in Calloway and Marshall Counties. Again MSU TV-11 will air the shows as well as Charter Cable in Christian County.

Archived episodes of the coaches programs will also be available on www.GoRacers.com and www.ovcsports.tv.

The Murray State coaches' television shows have a 28-year history dating back to 1979, when WPSD's Frank Murock launched the programs when Mike Gottfried coached MSU football and Ron Greene coached MSU basketball. Joe Amato hosted the shows for two seasons, then longtime WPSD sports director Larry McIntosh hosted the shows for more than 10 seasons (1983-93) through the Frank Beamer and Mike Mahoney years in football and during the years that Steve Newton and Scott Edgar coached MSU basketball. Dave Winder hosted the show from 1993 through the Houston Nutt, Denver Johnson and Joe Pannunzio years in MSU football and the beginning of the Matt Griffin era. He also hosted the program with MSU Basketball during the Tevester Anderson and Mick Cronin years and the beginning of the Billy Kennedy era. Mark Miller hosted the MSU basketball show during the Mark Gottfried era.

In all, the MSU coaches television shows will be seen weekly in more than 400,000 homes in the region and thousands will see the programs on www.GoRacers.com and www.ovcsports.tv.

Here are the air times for the MSU football
and basketball programs (Check local listings
channel may change according to where you live)

Sunday             11:30 p.m.        WPSD              Channel 6
Tuesday            6:30 p.m.         New Wave         Channel 19
Tuesday            6:30 p.m.         MSU TV-11       Channel 11
Wednesday       10:30 p.m.       New Wave         Channel 19
Wednesday       4:30 p.m.         Charter             Channel 10 Christian County
Thursday           6:30 p.m.         New Wave         Channel 19
Thursday           6:30 p.m.         Mediacomm      Channel 8
Thursday           6:30 p.m.         New Wave         Channel 3 Madisonville
Thursday           10:30 p.m.       Charter              Channel 10 Christian County
Friday               6:30 p.m.         MSU TV-11        Channel 11
Friday               10:30 p.m.       New Wave          Channel 19
Friday               10:30 p.m.       New Wave          Channel 3 Madisonville

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