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vjm

It's that time of year again, so here's a refresher on where to find, and who will call Indi...err...Guardians games this season.

WHERE:
The Guards will be on their longtime Cleveland radio flagships of WTAM 1100/106.9 and WMMS 100.7, as well as erstwhile affiliates WAKR 1590/93.5 Akron, WHBC 1480 Canton, WEOL 930/100.3 Elyria/Lorain, WLEC 1450/93.5 Sandusky/Vacationland, WKBN 570 Youngstown, and WSPD 1370/92.9 Toledo

On TV, they'll be on longtime home Bally Sports Great Lakes, with a handful of games simulcast on WKYC NBC 3.

WHO:
For the 11th straight year it'll be the "Hammy and Rosey Show" on the radio, with lead play-by-play voice Tom Hamilton (33rd year overall) and Jim Rosenhaus (13th overall season)

On TV, pregame/postgame will be handled by host Al Pawlowski (13th season), and analyst/former Tribe pitcher Jensen Lewis (8th year). In the booth will for the 16th straight year will be play-by-play man Matt Underwood (23rd year overall as a Tribe/Guards broadcaster between radio and TV) and former Gold Glove center fielder Rick Manning (33rd season overall), and Andre Knott will be in his 8th year as field reporter.

For what it's worth, Herb Score is the all-time leader as an Indians/Guardians broadcaster with 34 seasons between TV and radio (1964-1997), so Hamilton and Manning will tie him next season, and beat him in 2024
 
All those years of saying "Indians" for those broadcasters! The "I-word jar" in the booth will be full of fine money by the end of the first week.
 
skiwest said:
A station in Lorain has the Cavs games in Spanish. Do they do the same for the Indians Guardians?
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You're referring to WNZN 89.1, which is licensed to Lorain, but really is part of the Sandusky/Vacationland market. They are a gospel station by trade, and inherited the Cavs' Spanish broadcasts from the "Franken-FM" that was WLFM analog channel 6/FM 87.7 (now WTCL "Telemundo Cleveland").

There are no Spanish broadcasts for the Guardians.
 
vjm said:
You're referring to WNZN 89.1, which is licensed to Lorain, but really is part of the Sandusky/Vacationland market. They are a gospel station by trade, and inherited the Cavs' Spanish broadcasts from the "Franken-FM" that was WLFM analog channel 6/FM 87.7 (now WTCL "Telemundo Cleveland").

There are no Spanish broadcasts for the Guardians.
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How do they run pro sports on a non commercial gospel signal?

You cant run commercials!
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
How do they run pro sports on a non commercial gospel signal?

You cant run commercials!
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The New York Islanders had their games on Hofstra University's noncommercial FM station for at least one season. Not sure what loophole they used -- maybe phrasing the ads to sound like "underwriting announcements," pulling a fast one on the FCC.
 
CTListener said:
The New York Islanders had their games on Hofstra University's noncommercial FM station for at least one season. Not sure what loophole they used -- maybe phrasing the ads to sound like "underwriting announcements," pulling a fast one on the FCC.
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With Hofstra wasnt the station itself doing its own play by play? I thought i recall that.. becaise in every major league sports game ive heard.. baseball, football, hockey.. theres always ingame commercials by the live annoucners, you cant escape that or block that out on a live play by play feed.
 
skiwest said:
I know. But it seems that Hispanics would relate more to baseball than basketball since baseball has more Hispanic players than basketball. That was the point I was trying to make.
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But, at least among Puerto Ricans, basketball is vastly more popular than baseball.
 
DavidEduardo said:
But, at least among Puerto Ricans, basketball is vastly more popular than baseball.
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And that's reflected in the breakdown of MLB's Hispanic players by country/territory of origin.The Dominican Republic dominates, followed by Venezuela. Puerto Rico was third for Hispanic players, fourth overall, with only 2 percent of active players last year. That's likely why Spanish-language broadcasts of MLB games are more common among East Coast franchises, in cities with large Dominican populations.
 
MediaLover said:
There used to be Indians games in Spanish on WDLW 1380 back in the 1990's.
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That arrangement lasted only two seasons IIRC, in 1998 and 1999. The team produced the play-by-play for 20 games a season, mostly on Sundays, and fed it to WDLW, which then fed it to a four-station network.

The team hasn’t done anything since, of course, the Cleveland radio market is almost entirely English-speaking save for a non-comm in Painesville.
 
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