Butler University Athletics and its multimedia rightsholder, LEARFIELD's Butler Sports Properties, announced today an extension with Cumulus Media Indianapolis as the official Butler Men's Basketball radio station for the 2023-24 season. The PNC Butler Radio Network will bring the game to Bulldog fans around the region with the help of broadcasters Mark Minner and Nick Gardner on WXNT CBS Sports 1430AM, a Cumulus Media Indianapolis station.
 
"Cumulus Media Indianapolis represents an incredible audio portfolio of dynamic media brands and is excited to once again be the radio home of the Butler men's basketball program," said Mike Killabrew, Program Director at 1430 WXNT.
 
WXNT's broadcasts will begin with the first of Butler's two exhibition contests at Hinkle Fieldhouse Saturday, Oct. 28 against Ohio Northern, starting with the pregame show at 7 p.m. ET. Cumulus will also promote Bulldog action on other regionally-owned radio stations. Minner will handle play-by-play duties for the 11^th consecutive season alongside Gardner, who enters his 18^th season as a Bulldogs' analyst.
 
For decades, PNC Bank has supported Butler's educational programming, athletic events and helped support the campaign to renovate the historic Hinkle Fieldhouse. PNC became the official bank of Butler Athletics in 2012, and secured naming rights for the PNC Butler Radio Network in 2016.
 
"PNC is committed to creating positive impact in the communities where we live and work, while using our coast-to-coast resources to help our customers," said Jason Eckerle, PNC regional president for central and southern Indiana. "As a proud Bulldog, our renewed commitment underscores our historic support for Butler Athletics and the high-achieving athletes who bring their best on the court every day!"
 
Butler Sports Properties, the locally-based LEARFIELD team which works alongside Butler Athletics' administration, oversees the PNC relationship, in addition to the PNC branding in the Fieldhouse as well as many broadcast needs as part of the overarching multimedia rights partnership with Butler.
 
"We appreciate PNC's continued support of our university, athletics department and our student-athletes," said Butler Vice President/Director of Athletics Barry Collier. "We are excited to work alongside LEARFIELD's Butler Sports Properties and Cumulus to provide our fans with tremendous coverage of our men's basketball program on WXNT. Mark and Nick are extremely talented at delivering Butler Basketball to our audience, but also continue to be great ambassadors for their alma mater."
 
For regular and postseason games, Bulldog fans can tune into WXNT 1430AM to hear Gardner and Minner in special 30-minute pregame and postgame shows.
 
Fans can also listen to Minner and Gardner through The Varsity Network app, a free user-friendly audio hub which hosts all college sports broadcasts as part of the LEARFIELD properties. Butler basketball fans can use the app to set alerts for live-streamed games to avoid missing Bulldog action.
 
Additional information on Butler Athletics including Bulldog schedules, programs, tickets and more are available at www.butlersports.com.