Highlanders open Aug. 30 at Hurricane

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Kindred Communications announced today that Huntington High School football games – home and road -- will be broadcast live during the 2013 season on Super Talk 94.1 FM and AM 930.

The Highlanders’ 10-game regular-season schedule opens Aug. 30 at Hurricane High. Huntington, coming off a 9-3 season and quarterfinal appearance in the 2012 SSAC Class AAA playoffs, returns eight starters on defense and six on offense.

The super talk schedule for Coach Billy Seals’ team includes any playoff games for the Highlanders. Veteran HHS voice Chris Tatum will call the play-by-play and Super Talk’s Woody Woodrum will handle the analysis/color on the broadcasts.

All games kick off at 7:30 p.m., with the pregame show airing at 7:05.

"Last season, the HHS broadcast had been dropped with short notice and we were unable to respond,” said Mike Kirtner, president and general manager of Kindred Communications. “We saw an opportunity this season to serve the community as a locally owned company.”

Seals was enthused about the broadcast schedule for the upcoming season.

“Huntington High Football and HHS are very excited about being back on the radio to bring our community a great brand of football,” the Highlanders’ coach said. “Our football players as well as myself are looking forward to bringing exciting football back to the airwaves. After a 9-3 season, we are looking forward to making that next step as a program. We want to thank Kindred Communications for allowing our fans to enjoy Highlander Football each and every Friday night"

Huntington returns good experience on a defense that yielded only 12.7 points per game in 2012, when the Highlanders tied the HHS record for victories and set a school record in points scored. Seals’ team tied a playoff record with 69 points in its first-round win over Elkins.

The Highlanders’ 9-3 record last season followed an 8-4 mark and second-round playoff appearance in 2011.

Huntington’s 2013 broadcast schedule includes home dates with area rivals Spring Valley (Sept. 6) and Cabell Midland (Sept. 20). The HHS regular-season schedule:

Date           Opponent

Aug. 30      at Hurricane

Sept. 6       Spring Valley

Sept. 13     at Woodrow Wilson

Sept. 20    Cabell Midland

Sept. 27    at Ripley

Oct. 4        Capital

Oct. 18      at Parkersburg

Oct. 25     St. Albans

Nov. 1      South Charleston

Nov. 8      at Winfield

(All games at 7:30 p.m.; Super Talk pregame show at 7:05)

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Veterans Swann, Woodrum host award-winning drive-time radio

HUNTINGTON – The “Insider Sportsline,” a weekday, drive-time show on “SuperTalk 94.1 FM and AM 930 of Kindred Communications, has won the “Best Talk Show” award for 2012 from the West Virginia Broadcasters Association.

The state award was for all radio talk shows, news or sports, in the Large Market category (Huntington, Charleston, Morgantown-Fairmont-Clarksburg). The 2012 awards were announced Saturday, Feb. 23 at the 10th annual WVBA Awards Dinner in Charleston.

“Insider Sportsline,” hosted by longtime Huntington radio broadcasters Paul Swann and Woody Woodrum, airs Monday-Friday from 4-6 p.m. The duo also hosts pregame and postgame shows on “Supertalk” for Marshall football and men’s basketball games.

“This award was long overdue,” said Mike Kirtner, president of Kindred Communications. “Paul and Woody are the perfect team. Paul can be pretty blunt and Woody is the perfect fan.”

“I’m glad they work for Kindred…but, I’d listen to them even if they didn’t.”

“Insider Sportsline” is the broadcast outlet for the Herd Insider magazine, which Kindred Communications publishes 29 times annually. The Herd Insider website is at GoHerd.com.

The WVBA honor adds to Herd Insider honors for 2012.

First-year Herd Insider Editor Jack Bogaczyk was voted the West Virginia Sportswriter of the Year for 2012 by state members of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association in Salisbury, N.C. It is Bogaczyk’s third state sportswriter honor

Keith Morehouse, a Herd Insider columnist and the WSAZ Television sports director, was named the West Virginia Sportscaster of the Year for 2012 by the NSSA.

Kindred Communications is celebrating 20 years of local broadcasting in the Huntington/Ashland radio market. Kindred Communication is the parent company for SuperTalk 94.1 FM and AM 930, The Dawg, 93.7 FM; The Planet, 92.7FM/98.5 FM; Hits 97.9 FM; Big Buck Country 101.5 FM; ESPN 1340 AM; Herd Insider magazine; and Kindred Konnect.