Will Paul Loeffler, Pat Hill return to Fresno State radio broadcasts? Bulldogs have answer
Fresno State doesn’t kick off its football season until Aug. 28, an 11 a.m. brunch against the UConn Huskies.
But it picked up an early win with the return of play-by-play announcer Paul Loeffler plus Pat Hill and Cameron Worrell to Bulldogs football broadcasts with Fresno State and Bulldog Sports Properties, its multimedia rights holder, moving to the iHeartMedia network after eight years with the 50,000-watt ESPN/AM940.
Fresno State and BSP announced their return on Thursday, along with the duo of Loeffler and Marc Q. Jones on men’s basketball, Loeffler on baseball and Matt Norville on women’s basketball and softball broadcasts.
That means Hill, the former Bulldogs coach, also will continue to call the zany Hot Dog races on the Bulldog Stadium video board, a popular second-half diversion that was started during the championship 2018 season when Fresno State was 6-0 at home and winning those games by an average of more than 28 points.
Fresno State made the switch to iHeartMedia effective July 1. Its games will be on a number of smaller terrestrial radio stations throughout the San Joaquin Valley including FOX Sports AM1340 in Fresno, AM970 in Bakersfield and AM1280 in Stockton, as well as the iHeartRadio and Fresno State apps.
Here is the lineup …
Football
- Fresno – KCBL/Fox Sports 1340 AM
- Fresno, Visalia, Tulare – KRDU/1130 AM
- Stockton area – KWSW/Fox Sports 1280 AM
- Modesto – KOSO/92.9 FM
- Bakersfield – KHTY/Fox Sports 970 AM
Men’s basketball
- Fresno – KCBL/Fox Sports 1340 AM
- Bakersfield – KHTY/Fox Sports 970 AM
Women’s basketball
- Fresno, Visalia, Tulare/KRDU – 1130 AM
Baseball & Softball
- Fresno – KCBL/Fox Sports 1340 AM
Football Coaches Show
- Fresno – KCBL/Fox Sports 1340 AM
- Stockton area – KWSW/Fox Sports 1280 AM
- Bakersfield – KHTY/Fox Sports 970 AM
Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coaches Show
- Fresno – KCBL/Fox Sports 1340 AM
- Bakersfield – KHTY/Fox Sports 970 AM
All Bulldogs games and coaches shows also are available in California on the iHeartRadio app and anywhere in the world on the Fresno State Bulldogs app.