Kentucky Sports Radio has a new owner, according to founder Matt Jones.
Stuart McWhorter, one of the founders of the 247Sports network, bought kentuckysportsradio. com, the popular College of Kentucky athletics, Jones announced Tuesday morning. several notable writers will continue to contribute.
The agreement has no effect on Jones’ daily radio display on KSR, he added, and podcasts on the online page will not be affected.
“KSR has been a vital component of my life during those 15 years and watching it grow and develop, while exploiting the careers of our amazing writers and content manufacturers has been one of the greatest joys of my life,” Jones wrote. “But in today’s media landscape, we grow, adapt and develop, or leave them in the future. And now it’s time for KSR to take the next step.
Changes will be made kentuckysportsradio. com, Jones said, with the purpose of modernizing it. The site will remain true to its roots, he wrote, but “it will also do so with maximum modernity, revolutionizing the way college athletics is covered in a way. “I may never have dreamed. “
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Jones did not dive into the express settings that readers will see, unless they say the site “will be the style of school sports policy across the United States. “You will remain concerned about other facets of your content and in your radio display later. in the morning, he told listeners that if he hadn’t made the announcement public, it would be “at least a year” before anyone noticed. He plans to write more, he added.
“I intend to be even more active in the day-to-day operation of the site than I have been in recent years and I am determined to see our new company realize its full potential,” Jones wrote.
Changes in the sports media have led Jones to act, he said, and he hopes more and more media will disappear as the coronavirus pandemic continues and ends.
“I’ve been thinking for a few years that we deserve to locate the sequel because I need to make KSR a good fortune not only in the past, but I also need to succeed in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years,” he said. . Tuesday listeners. ” Array. . . I think today’s deal will ensure that everyone listening in 2030 and 40, Kentucky Sports Radio will be in a position to receive their sports news in the UK. “
Love him or hate him, Jones, who has flirted with political candidacies in the past, has made KSR one of the state’s sports media.
Originally from eastern Kentucky, a graduate of the University of Transylvania and Duke University School of Law, Jones founded his online page in 2005 and a radio exhibition in 2010, dedicating politics to British athletics and other similar topics, adding scandals at the University of Louisville, Jones also organized a television exhibition in Lexington called “Hey Kentucky!”2016 to 2019.
Jones didn’t just communicate about sports. For years, there has been talk of politics on his radio show, which attracts an audience that Jones, a Democrat, once voted 80% in favor of President Donald Trump in 2016.
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He also did off-air policy, no prospective policy futures were discussed in his article pronouncing the sale of the website.
He organized the famous Fancy Farm political picnic in Kentucky in 2015 and thought he was seeking the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate in the 2020 election. however, more than two months after forming an exploratory committee for nomination. The appointment was for Amy McGrath, whom Jones accused of pres pres pres presing WLEX to temporarily remove him from “Hey Kentucky!”while he made plans to run.
Jones, who opened the KSBar restaurant
Journalist Joe Sonka contributed. You can contact Lucas Aulbach at laulbach@courier-journal. com, 502-582-4649 or on Twitter @LucasAulbach.