What are your local stations airing besides baseball/basketball/hockey/etc. now that virtually every sport is on hiatus? What would you like them to air? KIRO Seattle, usually the home of the Seattle Mariners, is airing vintage Mariner games. This week they have aired the 2001/2003/2012 season openers. It's been surprisingly enjoyable, especially since we get to hear the late and much beloved Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus--great comfort food.
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Fox 17 here in Nashville carried game 7 of the 2016 World Series, in which the Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians. Not only had the Cubs (and their fans) waited 108 years for another championship, game 7 ran into extra innings, and even had a rain delay! The Cubs' fans had more than earned that win!
When I turned on the TV yesterday I saw golf. Was that live or classic?
What channel? The PGA and LPGA tours have been suspended, so what you saw was most likely a rerun, wherever it aired. I think the only live sporting event aired over the weekend was Saturday's Florida Derby telecast on NBCSN (with additional coverage of preliminary races on FS2). Horse racing is continuing behind closed doors at several venues during this crisis, although it seems unlikely it will continue much longer. But you never know. The big problem, of course, is the fate of thousands of horses, which do not contract the virus and would be too expensive to maintain for all but the wealthiest of owners should racing go dark.
I don't know. My TiVo records four channels at once and whatever channel is on when I turn the TV on doesn't change until four shows are being recorded at once and one of those four channels is not the one that was on.
Usually, when I turn on the TiVo in the morning for America's Best Music, someone is yelling about their baby daddy.
I wonder how far back these recorded games go. The oldest game the Mariners Network has aired is 2001. Is it little interest in the games, rights reasons, inadequate sound on earlier stuff, or they didn't record older games?
Maybe as the MLB hiatus continues, they'll go deeper into the library. I can't imagine audio quality being an issue, at least for games from the '90s, when the team became competitive.
MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM aired the deciding game of the 1945 Tigers-Cubs World Series the other night. It didn't sound too bad, actually. There's a guy on YouTube who runs a channel called Classic Baseball on the Radio that airs play-by-play from the '30s through the '70s -- not just memorable games but ordinary weekday/weeknight regular season stuff. Want to hear a May 1963 game between the Cubs and Mets or Red Sox and Senators? No problem. You won't recognize most of the players but it's a great way to get a feel for what baseball was like back then.
Well today they actually aired a game from the 90s, Randy Johnson's no hitter from 1990. It had a weird "boxy" sound, like they taped it off a transistor radio (and who knows if they did?). It still was a very entertaining game.
Virtual Golf?? I know the NBA has been having virtual games as a way to compensate with the season shutdown though. Indycar and Nascar has been doing virtual races too.
Looked and sounded real enough to me.
My listings showed "March of the Penguins" yesterday at 2. I was looking forward to that. I always liked Morgan Freeman.
All I saw was a NASCAR race. As I fast-forwarded through it, I did see one reference to the virus, so it wasn't that old.
Well a month in and KIRO Seattle is still airing old Mariner games. The bulk of the games are 1995 or later (then again there wasn't much worth noting for the Mariners before then). The oldest game they played was the 1979 All Star game, which featured national broadcasters and not the Mariners team. The sound quality on that was awful, but everything else sounds fine.
At least that's better than stations that are replacing Fox's "optional" sports programming with infomercials like WHBQ in Memphis and WJKT in Jackson, TN.
Did you mean to post this in the Connecticut Radio forum? WATR has no sports programming, AFAIK, so the all-Elvis format isn't replacing sports. I hope you're not an employee of WATR shilling for the station here; that is not condoned.
I’m a listener not an employee!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...sitive-covid-tests-among-athletes/3231509001/
How will Sports/talk radio going to remain viable as a format given the current situation with the pandemic. There are now reports that College Football players in various parts of the country that have been tested positive for COVID-19 and there are rumors that the second wave for COVID-19 will be sooner in some states and reports of COVID-19 positive tests at the NFL.
The problem here with sports talk is that they are dependent on pundits talking about active games from various leagues and active sports coverage.
How will Sports/talk radio going to remain viable as a format given the current situation with the pandemic. There are now reports that College Football players in various parts of the country that have been tested positive for COVID-19 and there are rumors that the second wave for COVID-19 will be sooner in some states and reports of COVID-19 positive tests at the NFL.
The problem here with sports talk is that they are dependent on pundits talking about active games from various leagues and active sports coverage.
What I'm hearing more of now is interviews with actual players. They're less available during the season because they're training. Now they have some free time.
As long as there's an NFL season they'll do OK. After all considering how much of the offseason is taken over by the NFL draft/free agency/training camps in normal years anyway some stations wouldn't even notice if there is no baseball or hockey. If there is no NFL season, then who knows?
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