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ESPN WRUF

CORE AUDIENCE
Gator Fans & Sports Fans
EVERY
Gator Game
14
Counties Reached
6
Hours of Daily Sports Talk
Jags+Rays
Live Play-By-Play

More than music

On the air in this market since 1928.

All Things Gators
Football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, soccer and more. If the Gators are playing, WRUF is there.
Local Sports Talk
Gator Nation has opinions. Sportscene, Sports Lab and The Tailgate give them somewhere to go, with local voices talking about the games and stories fans are already debating.
Jaguars & Rays
North Central Florida gets live Jacksonville Jaguars football and Tampa Bay Rays baseball right here on WRUF.
ESPN Radio
National voices, breaking sports news and the biggest stories beyond Gainesville, from ESPN Radio and names like Dan Patrick.
Game Day
Football Saturdays are their own thing around here. Pregame, the game, postgame and plenty of local perspective surrounding all of it.
Beyond the Broadcast
Show replays, podcasts and WRUF.com coverage keep the conversation going when the live show or final whistle is over.

Why people keep it on

The music, the personalities, and the local moments are what build the habit — and that habit is what an advertiser is really buying. So we protect the programming first: the stronger the reason to listen, the more every message on this station is worth.

WHAT PROGRAMMING DECIDES
  • What gets played, and how often
  • Who is on the air, and when
  • What the station shows up to in this town
  • How much of the hour is commercials
WHAT AN ADVERTISER BUYS
  • The dayparts your buyer is listening in
  • Frequency: how often they hear you
  • The message, in their own words
  • A host reading it, when the fit is right

Ways to advertise here

Get in the Game

Put your business in front of sports fans throughout the day with commercials across WRUF’s local shows, ESPN programming and live sports schedule.

Own Part of the Action

Pregame, postgame and live play-by-play create sponsorship opportunities around the moments fans are actively showing up to hear.

Team Up with a Trusted Voice

Connect your business with the local personalities Gator fans already listen to, argue with and call into every weekday.

These are the three we get asked for most — not the whole menu. Tell us what you are trying to move, and we will shape the rest around it.

How a campaign on this station comes together

01

We pick the hours

Research tells us when your buyer is actually listening to this station. That is what we buy, not whatever inventory is cheapest that month.

02

We write and produce it

One idea, one voice, recorded here. You approve it before a single spot airs.

03

It runs long enough to work

Frequency is the whole game. We would rather run you twelve steady months than six loud weeks.

04

We report every month

Affidavits, call volume, and what we are changing next month, in plain English.

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