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Allison Morris

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I am relocating from Pittsburgh and moving to Central PA (Lancaster). Allison Morris from KDKA was doing the local traffic reports on 105.7 The X (WQXA) this morning. I just checked the KDKA website and she is still listed as working for KDKA. Is she leaving to pursue a radio career in York/Harrisburg/Lancaster area? She sounded very aware of the Central PA area, and even correctly pronounced Lancaster. ;D

Also, on the way back to Pittsburgh tonight I decided to listen to iheartradio on my Blackberry and put on FM Newstalk 104.7 and Sean Hannity was on. Just after the 5:30 PM break, a segment of Quinn and Rose came on. After that segment went to commercial, Hannity was back on. I also noticed one day earlier this week I put on 104.7 to catch a little bit of the Pirates game, which I'm sure was on that night, but they had on the Savage Nation. Are they not going to broadcast the Pirates on iheartradio? Its been great listening to the Penguins games in Central PA the past couple of weeks and listening to Mike Lange and Phil Bourque on 105.9 The X, but sort of curious why the Pirates aren't on the other CC station.
 
Metro is out of Philly now.. so she's probably doing quite a few stations... the Blair girl that does BZW, ZPT & DSY in the AM is out of Philly..
 
Are you sure it was the SAME Allison Morris? She was born and raised in Long Island, NY and worked there and also in Paris, always in TV, but never knew of her ever being in the Lancaster area at anytime.

P.S. Good luck in your heading back to my old stomping grounds Steel! I still love that area!
 
clangham said:
Are you sure it was the SAME Allison Morris? She was born and raised in Long Island, NY and worked there and also in Paris, always in TV, but never knew of her ever being in the Lancaster area at anytime.

P.S. Good luck in your heading back to my old stomping grounds Steel! I still love that area!
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It sure sounded like her voice. She filled in a few weeks ago on Jim and Randy's DVE morning show a couple of weeks ago when Val Porter was on vacation and sounded the same to me. I've been fooled before though. clangham, I lived out there most of my life so grew up with Central PA, Philly and Baltimore radio. After 14 years away from home and family it was time to move back.

I'm still curious why CC has the Penguins games on iheartradio on The X but not Pirates baseball on 104.7?
 
Parttimer said:
MLB owns all the streaming rights.
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Correct. You can either get games on XM or buy the MLB online audio package -- $15 for the whole season, and you get the home and visiting team radio broadcast of every game.
 
Boss Radio said:
Parttimer said:
MLB owns all the streaming rights.
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Correct. You can either get games on XM or buy the MLB online audio package -- $15 for the whole season, and you get the home and visiting team radio broadcast of every game.
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Apparently the NHL doesn't have the streaming rights. Although in Lancaster my daughter has XM and when the Pens were in Philly, I had to put up with listening to the Philly announcers, then when they played in Pittsburgh, we got to hear Lange and Borque.

Once the Steelers are back on in pre-season and the 2009 season starts, I hope I can catch all the pre-game and game audio on my Blackberry too. Unless the Steelers are a national game, I'll have to watch the local AFC games and the home market team will be the coughRavenscough.
 
NHL holds no regular season rights other than the XM deal in the US. They leave that to the individual teams.

The Allison Morris you heard is not the same one that works for KDKA. She is the Director of Operations for Metro in Harrisburg and spent a couple of years at Metro in Pittsburgh before the TV Allison Morris arrived. Metro closed down the Pittsburgh office first and will close Harrisburg in the not too distant future. They have attempted to consolidate all operations from the region into Philly but the move has been chaotic at best and remains incomplete.
 
the NHL probably benefits more from the additional exposure gained from streaming than by the amount of revenue they could realize from subscriptions. (baseball, on the other hand, is grubbing for every available penny that can be snatched from a fan's pocket)
 
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