MLB Over The Air Affiliates

[radiorob2.0]

The Cincinnati Reds were on WLW-T for many years. What year did they migrate to cable?

 

[ShawnHill1]

The Cincinnati Reds were on WLW-T for many years. What year did they migrate to cable?

1991 was the first year the Reds were on cable (then-SportsChannel Ohio, now FSN Ohio). Games were carried concurrently on over-the-air (WLWT, and later WSTR & WKRC) and cable between '91 and '98. 1999 was the first year the Reds became cable-exclusive, although some years either WLWT or WKRC would televise the Opening Day game only.

 

[chris12]

I believe The Brewers were on WVTV channel 18 pretty much their whole history other than a few years on WCGV 24 in the early 90s until the last few year when they went to Channel 41.

 

[ShawnHill1]

A slight correction on my eariler post about the Reds...they, the Cardinals, and the Royals were part of a regional network called Sports Time, between 1984 and 1985. The channel was owned by Anheuser-Busch (then the owners of the baseball Cardinals), and because of the lack of cable penetration in some areas, it was unsuccessful. Again, the Reds were back on regional cable by 1991 on SportsChannel.

 

[Ultimajock]

I believe The Brewers were on WVTV channel 18 pretty much their whole history other than a few years on WCGV 24 in the early 90s until the last few year when they went to Channel 41.

...The Brewers began on WTMJ-TV/4 and didn't move to WVTV until around '78 or so. In fact, since over half of the signal of KFIZ-TV/34 Fond du Lac overlapped into the Milwaukee market, and KFIZ-TV rebroadcast some of the WTMJ-TV coverage, KFIZ-TV should be considered a local OTA affiliate of the Brewers before that station folded in November 1972...

 

[chris12]

A funny story regarding a team station, in 1976 Ted Turner who had just purchased the Braves had some of his players wear nicknames on their jerseys rather than their last names and his idea was to have Andy Messersmith who wore number 17 to wear Channel on the back of his uniform to promote the team and Turner's channel 17 though baseball honchos unamused put an end to the stunt.

 

[Newname]

Since one of my local teams, the Giants, have been mentioned(and their TV history was so quick to sum up...though they also had a handful of games on KICU, ch. 36 in San Jose, in 1993), I'll post the A's(Oakland years only):

1968-72 and 82-84 KBHK 44
1973-74 KTVU 2
1975-81 and '85-92 KPIX 5
1988-92 KICU 36(shared rights with KPIX; each station did roughly 20-30 games a year).

1993-98 KRON 4
1999-KICU 36
Monte Moore (1968-80 and 88-92) and Bill King (1981-87) are the two announcers most associated with A's telecasts. Dick Stockton(formerly of CBS Sports) had an unpopular stint when KRON took over, and a number of others have held the position since then.

 

[EnbyCee]

I believe The Brewers were on WVTV channel 18 pretty much their whole history other than a few years on WCGV 24 in the early 90s until the last few year when they went to Channel 41.

Not quite.......I think WISN aired Sunday games early in the 00's, and for a couple of years the Brewers were exclusive to FSN North.

 

[Gregg]

I know that for at least one year after the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to LA, WOR-TV 9 in NYC continued to carry day games from the West Coast. Eventually NYC got the Mets as a National League team and WOR became the Mets flagship station.

Gregg
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[NeilRattigan]

jerseyfla has this chronology of the Phillies stations

Philadelphia Phillies
WPHL 1971-1981
WTXF 1982-1992
WPHL 1993-1998
WPSG 1999-Present

baseballchronolgy.com says WPTZ started carrying the Phillies in 1947. In 1948, WPTZ and WCAU shared rights. In 1949, WFIL joined the rotation.
In 1951, all 3 also rotated the A's until 1954[The A's moved to Kansas City in 1955] WCAU dropped out of the Phillies rotation after 1954. In 1956, NBC bought WPTZ and changed the call letters to WRCV. In 1958, WRCV and WVUE Wilmington shared the rights. That same year, WVUE went off the air and WRCV decided not to renew, presumably because NBC didn't want all those network pre-emptions on an O&O. Then WFIL was the long flagship station from 1959 through 1970.

 

[NeilRattigan]

My apologies make that

baseballchronology.com

 

[JeeperOne]

Hi everyone:

This website is loaded with OUTDATED information. It's so far out-of-date, it looks like someone's home page on Geocities back before the days of text-based blogging. Basically, it looks like an old web pages I would throw together using Netscape Composer.

EXAMPLE - It lists Colorado's playoff ONLY playoff appearance as being IN 1995. Any self-respecting baseball fan with ANY amount of knowledge of the sport knows this is no longer true.

Cheers

 

[Charles1]

This website is loaded with OUTDATED information. It's so far out-of-date, it looks like someone's home page on Geocities back before the days of text-based blogging. Basically, it looks like an old web pages I would throw together using Netscape Composer.

I noticed some of the outdated info as well; still, a lot of the old-time info, especially about old ball parks and broadcast history, was fairly interesting.

 

[ixnay]

Hi everyone:

This website is loaded with OUTDATED information. It's so far out-of-date, it looks like someone's home page on Geocities back before the days of text-based blogging. Basically, it looks like an old web pages I would throw together using Netscape Composer.

EXAMPLE - It lists Colorado's playoff ONLY playoff appearance as being IN 1995. Any self-respecting baseball fan with ANY amount of knowledge of the sport knows this is no longer true.

Cheers

Especially Philadelphia Phillies phans. I was vacationing in the Carolinas when the Rockies put the broom to the Phightins last fall. :'( Didn't watch a pitch because (to save money) I shared a room with a couple of other folks who are not baseball fans. :-[

ixnay

 

[mjlarochelle]

As far as I know, the Toronto Blue Jays were split between CBLT/5 and CFTO/9 in Toronto in the early days, with TSN picking up some games when it came on in 1984. I believe CFTO held onto some games until 1996, also airing them on other CTV and Baton stations, and CBLT along with the CBC has had them on and off during various years up to the present. CITY/57 aired some pre-season Jays this year as well.

The now-defunct Montreal Expos for a number of years were on CBMT/6 and the CBC network, although I'm not sure if CFCF/12 or any of the French stations carried them. Eventually I believe the televised games all ended up on RDS.