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NY Jets Have New Radio Home...

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blue feast

...In the NYC metro, they remain on their long-time home at 1050 ESPN. But now, the games will also be heard on Los Angeles sister station 710 ESPN. LA, of course, hasn't had an NFL team to call its own for years. And Jets QB Mark Sanchez went to USC.

I know the NYY have a radio affiliate in Tampa but this is pretty wild for the Jets Radio Network.
 
blue feast said:
...In the NYC metro, they remain on their long-time home at 1050 ESPN. But now, the games will also be heard on Los Angeles sister station 710 ESPN. LA, of course, hasn't had an NFL team to call its own for years. And Jets QB Mark Sanchez went to USC.

I know the NYY have a radio affiliate in Tampa but this is pretty wild for the Jets Radio Network.
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It's not unheard of. The Cowboys have had an affiliate (or more?) in Arizona for years. The Bears had one in Phoenix in the mid '90s, even though it's an NFL city. There's no NFL territorial exclusivity in radio like there is in TV, whether there's a team in the area or not. If the Jets wanted to sign an affiliate in Miami, Phoenix, or even Green Bay, they could if they thought they'd have an audience.
 
Weren't the Miami Dolphins on a California station years ago?

cd
 
KeithE4 said:
There's no NFL territorial exclusivity in radio like there is in TV, whether there's a team in the area or not.
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Unless there's some other "unofficial" deal in place. Here in Texas, Jerry Jones and Bob McNair have a handshake agreement to keep the Cowboys and Texans radio broadcasts out of each other's home markets.
 
For at least a season (1996) WTAM-1100 in Cleveland aired NFL Baltimore Ravens games after the original Browns moved to Baltimore.
 
Tim L said:
For at least a season (1996) WTAM-1100 in Cleveland aired NFL Baltimore Ravens games after the original Browns moved to Baltimore.
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That's a surprise! One would think that the fans woulda been too angry to wanna hear about "that team" or the owner, to bother listening. Meh, I could be wrong.

cd
 
In areas that aren't near NFL cities (example; Iowa, Nebraska, rural areas and cities like Vegas and Orlando), there usually is some NFL team's games who are broadcast on their sports stations. And then, there's cases like the Patriots being aired in Maine, VT, RI and the Seattle Seahawks in Oregon, NY teams in Hudson Valley, Suffolk county, etc.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
Maybe WSB, Atlanta, can be part of the Winnepeg Jets radio network.
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I don't know what the NHL's rules currently are, but IIRC, a Winnipeg station carried Phoenix Coyotes games for several years after the original Jets moved in 1996.

In any case, all NHL teams are available online via their flagships' stations for free. They don't require blacking out the streams like MLB and the NFL do.
 
The closest I can recall for Pittsburgh regarding something like that was years ago when WEDO-810 (I believe) picked up University of Pennsylvania football for a season. I think I heard Navy one season on another station here. I'm waiting to see if anyone picks up Notre Dame now that KQV-1410 has gone Blue-and-White and picked up JoePa's Nittany Lions. Of course, stations can pick up national games via Westwood One (as KDKA-FM can do) and Sports USA (as KQV has done along with W-One games).
 
frozenfiresb said:
In areas that aren't near NFL cities (example; Iowa, Nebraska, rural areas and cities like Vegas and Orlando), there usually is some NFL team's games who are broadcast on their sports stations. And then, there's cases like the Patriots being aired in Maine, VT, RI and the Seattle Seahawks in Oregon, NY teams in Hudson Valley, Suffolk county, etc.
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I became a Seahawks fan when I was stationed near Anchorage AK....their games in 1978 were on FM 102.1 (at that time KJZZ) & the next year on AM 650 (then KYAK).

cd
 
KeithE4 said:
blue feast said:
...In the NYC metro, they remain on their long-time home at 1050 ESPN. But now, the games will also be heard on Los Angeles sister station 710 ESPN. LA, of course, hasn't had an NFL team to call its own for years. And Jets QB Mark Sanchez went to USC.

I know the NYY have a radio affiliate in Tampa but this is pretty wild for the Jets Radio Network.
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It's not unheard of. The Cowboys have had an affiliate (or more?) in Arizona for years. The Bears had one in Phoenix in the mid '90s, even though it's an NFL city. There's no NFL territorial exclusivity in radio like there is in TV, whether there's a team in the area or not. If the Jets wanted to sign an affiliate in Miami, Phoenix, or even Green Bay, they could if they thought they'd have an audience.
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Before Atlanta and Dallas got their NFL teams, the Washington Redskins use to have a bunch of stations in the South. I have heard (in a bar so you be judge) that in the late 1940's and early 1950's there was even a bar or two of Dixie added into the Redskins fight song.
 
Look at the lineups of last nights game... hardly the regular season's starters... no one wanted to risk injury a weekish before the season - the Jets will be fine! J! E! T! S!
 
secondchoice said:
Before Atlanta and Dallas got their NFL teams, the Washington Redskins use to have a bunch of stations in the South. I have heard (in a bar so you be judge) that in the late 1940's and early 1950's there was even a bar or two of Dixie added into the Redskins fight song.
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Add Miami and the Carolinas to that list as well. Redskins games were televised throughout the Southeast, as far south as Miami. They probably had radio affiliates in FL as well. As recently as the early 90s, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham were de facto secondary Redskins' markets. In fact, WBT was a Redskins radio affiliate. That station is now the Carolina Panthers' flagship. :)
 
radioguy39nj said:
secondchoice said:
Before Atlanta and Dallas got their NFL teams, the Washington Redskins use to have a bunch of stations in the South. I have heard (in a bar so you be judge) that in the late 1940's and early 1950's there was even a bar or two of Dixie added into the Redskins fight song.
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Add Miami and the Carolinas to that list as well. Redskins games were televised throughout the Southeast, as far south as Miami. They probably had radio affiliates in FL as well. As recently as the early 90s, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham were de facto secondary Redskins' markets. In fact, WBT was a Redskins radio affiliate. That station is now the Carolina Panthers' flagship. :)
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Who was the Miami affiliate, and what years? I have access to archives of the old Miami News, and would like to see.

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