WXYT-FM

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WXYT-FM is 97.1 The Ticket, a Detroit-area sports radio station at 97.1 MHz. Based in Southfield, Michigan, it serves Metro Detroit and much of Southeast Michigan and is owned by Audacy, Inc. The station broadcasts in HD Radio, with HD2 carrying WWJ (CBS News) and HD3 carrying WXYT (The Bet). It also streams online via Audacy and iHeartRadio, and weekday shows are available as live video on Twitch from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., though the feed switches to public-domain music during commercial breaks.

WXYT-FM is the flagship station for Detroit’s four professional teams and two college teams: the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Lions, and the Michigan Wolverines football and men’s basketball teams. Overnight and on weekends, it airs programming from Westwood One Sports.

The station’s history is long and evolving. It began as W45D on May 13, 1941, the first FM station in Michigan, and went through several call signs (WENA, WWJ-FM, WJOI, WYST, WKRK-FM) before becoming WXYT-FM in 2007 with an all-sports format as “97-1 The Ticket,” paired with its longtime AM counterpart. In 2009, it became the Pistons’ flagship station, a role it briefly retook in 2017 after changes in the market. CBS Radio merged with Entercom in 2017, and in 2020, longtime host Jamie Samuelsen passed away; the station later renamed its studio in his honor. Detroit Lions broadcasts returned to WXYT in 2021. In 2025, WXYT-FM became the flagship for the Detroit Sports Network, expanding The Ticket’s reach to other Michigan stations through a Audacy–Townsquare Media partnership.