The University of Florida has found a new radio home on the First Coast, joining the Jacksonville Jaguars on the city’s top sports station.
1010XL/92.5 FM, the flagship station of the Jaguars, is now home for Gators athletics as well. The partnership goes into effective this week, starting with the airing of Gator baseball games and the two-hour Florida football spring special. The partnership was announced jointly this week by the University Athletic Association, Florida Gators Sports Properties and 1010XL. The Jacksonville sports radio station made it official on the air with Dan Hicken and Jeff Prosser sharing the news at 9am this morning, and following up the announcement with a special radio appearance by legendary Gators football coach Steve Spurrier.
The four-year deal makes 1010XL/92.5 FM the home for all Gators football and men’s basketball games, as well as conference and other selected baseball games, plus all Gators talk shows.
“We are excited to partner with 1010XL to bring Gator athletics to the First Coast airwaves,” said Florida Athletics Director Scott Stricklin. “We have a large passionate fan base in the listening area who can now follow all of our football, basketball and conference baseball games on the premier sports talk radio station in Jacksonville.”
1010XL/92.5 FM has been the flagship station of the Jaguars since 2014. Launched in 2007, the station has committed to live and local programming, featuring some of the most popular and longest running sports talk shows in Jacksonville. In addition to adding the Gators and remaining the home of the Jaguars, the radio station will continue to be the radio home for Jacksonville University athletics, and other professional, college and high school sporting events.
“We are thrilled to add University of Florida athletics to our all-star play-by-play lineup,” 1010XL/92.5 FM President and General Manager Steven Griffin said. “As the proud flagship station of the Jaguars, it only made sense to add the Gators, whose heritage and incredible following in our area and statewide is second to none among college programs.”
