ESPN Mariners??

[The Street]

We had to leave the baseball game a little early Saturday night. As we walked out of Safeco, a sign overhead suggested we listen to the game on 710 ESPN on our way home. Sounded reasonable and smart on their part. In the car however, 710 had the Seahawks. WOW. So we tried KIRO FM, but again football. We eventually found the game bumped to 770. Unbelievable to see marketing go so awry. Being treated as a second class act, I wonder how the M's feel about the decision to move back to KIRO?

 

[equalinercard]

Really? Mariners not on KIRO AM or FM?

If true, that is remarkably inept. A meaningless preseason football game vs. a Mariner/Yankee matchup, while the M's, technically, are still in at least a wild-card chase for playoffs.

Wonder how the M's feel about being banished to the Rush/Glen Beck/Savage station?

Bonneville is starting to make the Entercom reign of KIRO look not so bad.

 

[IndigoCoyote]

It is true. The Ms got bumped to 770 last night. Happened lots of times back in the 90s when KIRO had both as well, something to do with contracts- if I remember correctly those Ms broadcasts went to KVI. And I remember back in the 80s our station was an affiliate of both and seeing a letter from the Marinersasking us where we would like to try to clear the M's during Seahawks broadcasts. It seemed even then the baseball folks knew where they stood, but I don't know why. National contracts, I guess? I am not sure Bonneville has a lot of say in this decision.

BTW, we aired the Ms on our sister AM, 6.7 watts nighttime power at the ghetto end of the dial. Yikes.

 

[corporat]

I was doing a scan-through looking for the Sounders radio broadcast on the FM band and I swear I heard the Mariners on The Wolf. No Sounders except on TV, though.

 

[SeattleObserver]

I was doing a scan-through looking for the Sounders radio broadcast on the FM band and I swear I heard the Mariners on The Wolf. No Sounders except on TV, though.

I heard the Mariners on 100.7 too. It was kind of interesting to flip from 770 to 100.7 and hear the HD delay.

Sounders were on MyNorthwest.com - This was certainly a unique situation!

KOMO-TV even had the Sounders Spanish-language broadcast on KOMO-2 ("This" TV) instead of KUNS 51.

 

[milton77]

Looks like a few more games will be on 770 & The Wolf this season..

I saw this on the mariner's website:

Games carried by 770 AM and 100.7 (FM) The Wolf (night games)
Sat., Aug. 15 Yankees
Sat., Aug. 29 Royals
Thu., Sept. 3 @ A's
Games carried by 770 AM (day games)
Sat., Aug. 22 @ Indians
Sun., Sept. 13 @ Rangers
Sun., Sept. 20 Yankees
Sun., Sept. 27 @ Blue Jays
Sun., Oct. 4 Rangers

 

[The Street]

WOW!! Again... the Mariners must be so excited to be shuffled off to a frequency that half the audience can hear. You get what you pay for.
The marketing aspect of this is unbelievable. If the M's knew this going in, shame on them. If Bonneville changed the deal after the fact, shame on them.
From a listener' standpoint.... don't put up a sign telling me to listen to a station that doesn't deliver. I have better things to do than to search.

 

[searadiofreak]

Sounds like mass-confusion, and only Bonneville is to blame.

However, keep in mind, what with contracts and such, ANY Seahawks game (pre-season, or regular-season), is more important to Bonneville than any single M's game, despite who they are playing. It's the contract. Pure and simple.

 

[AQH]

"Mass confusion?" Are you kidding me?

Of all the things to talk about in radio today, THIS is it?! Guess what, this travesty of justice, this most inhumane act of anything than could be done happens in more places than just Seattle.

So, sticking to the logic of this thread here, should FedEx remove "The World On Time" from its boxes worldwide when one package is delayed? Should Wheaties remove "The Breakfast of Champions" when one moron who can't throw a ball decides to eat the cereal? When the Energizer battery decides that it won't "Keep going, going and going...", should they pull all marketing saying that?

What's even more ridiculous is that the original poster found the station with the play-by-play, yet this is the biggest marketing disaster in Seattle radio history.

Get a grip, folks.

 

[HowardMBurgers]

And what's even more amusing is that these folks seem to actually believe that KIRO is just moving the games around to other stations on the fly. Before KIRO did a deal with the Mariner's, I'm sure that the schedules were developed to include the Seahawks game conflicts.

What these people don't realize too, is that since KOMO pulled out of the running, there were no other interested parties in Seattle that could adequately become the flagship station for the Mariners other than KIRO. The Mariners had no choice but to accept the compromise Bonneville was offering, to move the games to another station in the event a Seahawks game conflicted. But no, in this forum it's a vast conspiracy or everyone at these stations are just plain incompetent. Please..

 

[searadiofreak]

"mass confusion"...

Poor choice of words on my part...I misinterpreted the OP, I thought he meant a scoreboard message, which can easily be changed. Not sure what the OP meant by "sign".

Obviously, these games are mapped out well before the season begins.