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NY Yankees radio broadcast not on WWBA radio recently
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Why were they on local radio in the first place? Not America's team 🙄
Ummmm…northern transplants…
(And based off of financial evaluations, marketing and reach, the Yanks kinda are America’s baseball team, next to the Dodgers. The Rays sure as heck aren’t.)
Interesting. I wonder if baseball/media contracts are like football/media contracts where, if a separate station has a deal to broadcast say, the New York Yankees, in Tampa Bay, that cannot include any time the Yankees play the Tampa Bay Rays, regardless of whether the games are home or away.
If I remember correctly. back in the 60s Al Lang field was spring training base [or they at least played spring training games there] for the Yankees. I do remember my step-dad taking me to a game but I was more impressed with the fireworks.
The Boston Red Sox are broadcast over a local Greenwich, CT. station in the area of New York Yankee radio broadcast in New York City it's been like that for years no problem they get the advertisers in Greenwich. A New England area which of course anybody knows loves the Boston Red Sox so they have to have it wherever they are. I'm sure there might be other examples around the country with similar situations.
I think George The Boss lived in the Tampa area and wanted to hear his team.
Al Lang Field was shared by the Cardinals and Yankees through 1961. The Cards and Mets shared it for the rest of the '60s through 1987.
Must have been a spring game. I do remember the Yankees were playing. I wasn't much into sports yet, that's why I was more impressed with the fireworks.