Podcasts about West Virginia, United States

Mountaineers recruiting and transfer-portal business gets argued over in more than one register here. On Country Roads Confidential: A WVU Mountaineers podcast it is two voices that sound like beat writers comparing notes, with Chris Anderson explaining how agents pre-negotiate NIL deals for transfers before a player sets foot on campus. On 3 Guys Before The Game it is Tony Caridi, Brad Howe and Hoppy Kercheval as a panel, under "3 Guys Before The Game - Portal Open For BIZ (Episode 710)". On Country Roads Webcast it is one fan-analyst talking through a screen-share about a quarterback whose tape had him salivating. West Virginia University football and basketball is the largest single subject among the state's podcasts. Most of the rest is talk radio, from the MetroNews shows down to a Jackson County station, plus a Marshall show in Huntington and interview programs about business, classrooms, the outdoors and Wheeling's past.

What West Virginia is

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian region of the eastern United States, separated from Virginia during the Civil War and long associated with coal and mountain terrain. Charleston is the capital; Morgantown is home to West Virginia University, Huntington to Marshall University, and Wheeling sits in the Northern Panhandle on the Ohio River.

Mountaineers: the portal, the Crown and the snub

Country Roads Confidential and 3 Guys are the reporting end. Mike Casazza calls the NCAA tournament snub a 'huge red flag' that led to declining the NIT and fed speculation about coach Darian DeVries leaving. 3 Guys is where losses get absorbed: its UCF recap walks through a 45-13 defeat, 14-7 at halftime and 31-6 after it, and calls it a massive gut punch for players, coaches and fans.

Unreasonable Doubt - A WVU Basketball Podcast is built on immediate reaction and season-long memory; Josh Witt's clip from "WVU - 2026 College Basketball Crown Champions!" credits Honor Huff with 38 points, eight threes and the single-season three-point record. Locked On West Virginia goes player by player, Walter Youngbear's first step and second-level angles as the case for a starting job, and John Fanta calling Miles Sadler "an electric factory" after the Nike Hoops Summit. Country Roads Webcast has the spring-game detail, Jyron Hughley's 60-yard touchdown run on his first snap, and the prospect of another five-star basketball recruit. The West Virginia University Mountaineers feed is interview-led and its clips are all Olympic Sports Coaches Show, including Jon Hammond on Braden Pizer's 599 out of 600 in small bore. Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast takes the conference-wide view, its clips on Houston and Texas Tech rather than Morgantown.

In Huntington, The Drive with Paul Swann on WRVC 930 AM covers Marshall, and its clips are basketball at tournament time: a senior class with 83 wins in four years, the winningest run in program history, and the WNIT letting teams bid to host later rounds, which put a possible championship game at home in play.

The Greenbrier, the Strait of Hormuz and Jerry West

MetroNews supplies the statewide talk. On MetroNews Talkline, with Dave Wilson and TJ Meadows, the fight over the Greenbrier plays out: one clip reports that Robert Rowling wants the entire Greenbrier because controlling the hotel is his route to recovering the debt, and in another Wilson argues the loan documents may let Omni demand $300 million immediately. Later that week on MetroNews Hotline, Dave Weekley notes that the Greenbrier has asked for a stay in the federal case and that Omni wants the keys. Talkline does not stay in-state: Jonathan Savage warns that a Chinese naval escort through the Strait of Hormuz could escalate a blockade. Hotline's clips are otherwise Jerry West, his final on-camera interview with a return to West Virginia and his brother's gravesite, and a personal call to a West Virginia teenager declining a speaking invitation for the 1991 Burger King Classic. MetroNews Midday, live from the state's capital city, is lighter, with TJ comparing political mailers to a stranger who raids your refrigerator, takes your chair and commandeers the remote.

Ladder trucks, transmission lines and a Ripley election

The Talk of the Town, with Mike Nolting, sounds like local morning radio built for civic usefulness, where county names, bill numbers and public meetings are ordinary conversation. Its clips are exactly that: Tony Campbell, president of West Virginians Against Transmission Line Injustice, on how interveners get the evidence, legal standing and the right to appeal, and a guest explaining that a new fire-department ladder truck costs over $2 million with a four- or five-year wait. The Valley Today on WMOV AM comes from a Jackson County station that covers Jackson and Mason Counties and Meigs County, Ohio, and its clips are Ripley candidates speaking for themselves, Danny Martin calling the planned Westside Freedom Park a potential game changer for the city.

Mountain State Libertycast and The Tom Roten Show argue from a declared position. Libertycast, from the Libertarian Party of West Virginia with host Tye Ward, spends its clips on the Hope Scholarship: a House proposal to cap it at $5,000 and restrict tutoring and extracurricular coverage, and Katie Switzer on funding specialized apraxia therapy with it. The Tom Roten Show is plainspoken conservative talk that moves from national politics into county-level roads, taxes, farms and data centers: Michael Bowman arguing data centers bring real jobs but Appalachia needs slow growth, transparency and environmental limits, and Thomas Massie on national constitutional carry and on FISA 702 sweeping up millions of Americans.

Rivers, business filings, a classroom and a Wheeling ballroom

Away from the newsroom the subjects are river access, business formation, kindergarten and Wheeling memory. West Virginia Outdoors Audio Playlist, with Chris Lawrence, has the relaxed, practical sound of regional outdoor radio, and its clips are about access and governance more than trophies: sportsmen deciding to give the governor's five new at-will commission appointees a chance at a rescheduled first meeting, and Pete Runyon saying 34.5 miles of the Tug Fork still have no river access. On The Positively West Virginia Podcast, a friendly local interview program that lets answers run long, Kris Warner, the Secretary of State, says business formation can take "less than two hours" and that one DJ registered in "29 minutes". Leaders of Literacy is about early literacy in West Virginia classrooms, with episodes dated 2022 and 2023, among them Amber Nichols on a first kindergarten day that fell on September 11, 2001, and Claire calling the environment 'the third teacher'. From Camp Lee to the Great War: The Letters of Lester Scott & Charles Riggle is a Wheeling project built on the letters of two soldiers drafted in 1917, but its clips come from "Wheeling Memory Project: The Pythian Building": Ron Johnson recalling Wheeling's Chitlin Circuit, James Brown performances and midnight-to-dawn events at Wheeling Park, and Betty Gordon sneaking into the Pythian ballroom to find her grandmother Christine Clark working inside.

Where to start

• WVU football and basketball: 3 Guys Before The Game for the panel, Country Roads Confidential: A WVU Mountaineers podcast for the reporting, Unreasonable Doubt - A WVU Basketball Podcast to relive the Crown run.
• State news and the Greenbrier: MetroNews Talkline, then MetroNews Hotline for the follow-up and the Jerry West clips.
• The state beyond Morgantown: The Talk of the Town and The Valley Today on WMOV AM for county and city business, West Virginia Outdoors Audio Playlist for the rivers, The Drive with Paul Swann for Marshall.
• History and voices: From Camp Lee to the Great War for the Pythian Building conversation.

The West Virginia feed on this page plays clips from these shows.