9-1-1 Professionals to Be Saluted During College Bowl Games

For the first time ever, America’s 9-1-1 professionals will be honored as part of America’s college football bowl-game season.

The broadcasts of 11 bowl games will feature special #ThankYou911 messages of support for the first first responders in the emergency-response chain: the men and women of 9-1-1 who answer more than 240 million calls for help each year. The salute to 9-1-1 professionals – sponsored by NENA: The 9-1-1 Association in collaboration with Comtech Safety & Security Technologies, RapidDeploy, and First Team Radio – will air multiple times per game as part of the play-by-play broadcasts of the following games (all times Eastern and subject to change):

• Myrtle Beach Bowl, Dec. 21 at 2:30PM, Appalachian St. vs. North Texas
• Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Dec. 22 at 3:30PM, Tulane vs. Nevada
• Montgomery Bowl, Dec. 23 at 7PM, Memphis vs. Florida Atlantic
• Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, Dec. 26 at 12PM, South Carolina vs. UAB
• SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Dec. 26 at 3:30PM, Louisiana vs. UTSA
• LendingTree Bowl, Dec. 26 at 3:30PM, West. Kentucky vs. Georgia State
• FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl, Dec. 26 at 7:30PM, Liberty vs. Coastal Carolina
• Duke’s Mayo Bowl, Dec. 30 at 12PM, Wake Forest vs. Wisconsin
• Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, Dec. 31 at 12PM, Tulsa vs. Mississippi State
• Vrbo Citrus Bowl, Jan. 1 at 1PM, Auburn vs. Northwestern
• Outback Bowl, Jan. 2 at 12:30PM, Ole Miss vs. Indiana

The games will air on more than 100 affiliated radio stations across the United States, as well as on SiriusXM, TuneIn.com, and Radio.com, reaching millions of fans with the #ThankYou911 message.

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