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How to listen to Mike Keith's first broadcast as Tennessee Football's new play-by-play voice

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Mike Keith
Mike Keith

Tennessee Football opens the new season against Syracuse Saturday afternoon in the Aflac Kickoff Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. And The Vol Network starts a new era with Mike Keith calling his first game as the new “Voice of the Vols.”

Kickoff between the Vols and the Orange is scheduled for Noon Eastern Time on ABC. Pregame coverage on The Vol Network begins at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

The Vol Network broadcast can be heard on WNML-FM 99.1 and WIVK-FM 107.7 in Knoxville, on 90.5 FM inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium and on Vol Network affiliates across the state of Tennessee, as well as select affiliates in North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia.

Streaming options for The Vol Network include the Tennessee Athletics app, iHeart Radio, 99.1TheSportsAnimal.com or SiriusXM Channel 81.

Keith will be joined in The Vol Network booth by former Tennessee offensive lineman Ramon Foster as his analyst. Former Tennessee receiver Jayson Swain will provide pregame, halftime and postgame analysis and Volquest’s Brent Hubbs will be the sideline reporter.

How to Listen: Tennessee vs. Syracuse

Start Time: Saturday, Noon Eastern Time

TV: ABC (Bob Wischusen, Louis Riddick and Kris Budden)

Streaming: ESPN App

Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 and WIVK-FM 107.7 in Knoxville | 90.5 FM inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium | The Vol Network local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.

Satelite Radio: SiriusXM Channel 81

Streaming Radio: Tennessee Athletics App, iHeart Radio, 99.1TheSportsAnimal.com

Mike Keith named new ‘Voice of the Vols’ in January

Keith was named the new “Voice of the Vols” in January, replacing Bob Kesling who retired last March after 25 years on the job. Keith is just the fourth radio voice of Tennessee Football, following Lindsey Nelson, George Mooney, John Ward and Kesling. 

Keith, who will also be the lead broadcaster for Tennessee men’s basketball, spent the last 27 seasons as the radio voice of the Tennessee Titans. 

He worked in various roles with The Vol Network from 1987-98 after being hired by Ward. He was also WUTK’s sports director during his time as a student at Tennessee and later hosted one of Tennessee’s first daily sports talk radio shows from 1989-98 on WIVK and WNOX in Knoxville.

Keith was born in Knoxville and raised in Franklin. His grandfather, C.L. McPherson, was a Tennessee Football letterman, playing for General Neyland in 1932.

Mike Keith introduces new line of Vol Network weekly programming

Along with the “Voice of the Vols” title, Keith is also Tennessee’s assistant athletics director of broadcasting. 

He hosts The Mike Keith Show on Thursdays, streaming on Tennessee’s YouTube channel, as well as the Volunteer Gameday pregame show on Saturdays, the Big Orange Rewind on Sunday and the Vol Network Monday Meeting on Mondays. 

Keith, in an interview with Volquest in January, described coming home to Tennessee as “almost other worldly.” 

“To think that only four other people have had the job,” Keith said at the time, “and I respect the four of them so much. To be in that classification now is almost other worldly.”

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