Bonneville Phoenix announced today that it now has the broadcast rights to Phoenix Coyotes games. Twenty games in the 2013-2014 season will be on Arizona Sports 620. There will be 10 games on KTAR-FM 92.3, and the other 34 will be on KMVP 860 AM.
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Phoenix Coyotes on KTAR
- Thread starter BobinPhoenix
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The count is 24 games on 620, 10 on 92.3 (Suns conflicts?), 43 on a station that can't be heard where the fans are and nobody outside this board knows they're still on the air anyway, and 5 TBD. Hockey is an 82-game season, not 64 (last year notwithstanding).
So TMISU now have a monopoly on Phoenix sports. What are they going to do come April when the D'backs are playing if both the Suns (yeah, right!) and 'Yotes are in the playoffs?
Link: ArizonaSports.com
Wait a minute...the 8~Sixty web-sites says Gospel Music is played 24/7 http://www.gospel860.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=67 Does this mean Yotes listeners will be hearing the game and Gospel Music at the same time?
Only geezers listen to sports simulcasts on the radio. Young people - the desired demo, no? - already watch games real-time on their tablets and iPhones. But radio? Really? My *grandpa* listened to Brooklyn Dodgers games on the radio. I don't know *anyone* under retirement age in 2013 who still listens to sports simulcasts on the radio - except for Sirus/XM subscribers (not terrestrial AM/FM) - profitable for the stations, yes, but not the best way to attract young listeners. "Get Off My Lawn," indeed. Might as well just flip 92.3 to sports already and leave "talk radio" to the AM. That's where it's all headed, anyway.
The Coyotes' TV broadcasts are not available online in Arizona. NHL Center Ice has the same rules as MLB.TV/Extra Innings - local markets are blacked out. The only way to watch the Coyotes is via Fox Sports Arizona since Belo dropped them several years ago. That's part of all teams' deals with Fox and the other RSNs.
That leaves radio. The NHL allows their flagship stations to stream games for free, at least in the US (I don't know if Canada allows it). Whether KTAR does so remains to be seen since no games have been played yet.
BTW, if radio broadcasts of games didn't make money, they wouldn't be on the air. The major sports still have a strong radio presence. The minor sports (Rattlers, Mercury) are the ones that are online-only because their fan-base is too small.
That's exactly the point - they do make money. At the expense (no pun intended) of the designated "format." Does this now mean The Peak, e.g., and other Bonneville stations can now stray away from their brand to the extent that KTAR has? I thought the reason KTAR originally jumped onto Power 92's frequency was because the FM would be the "talk radio" side of KTAR and 620 would be the "sports" side. As 92.3 has made crystal clear they're no longer a "talk radio" station, I just don't see the rationale of keeping up the appearances of this whole "voice of Arizona" silliness when they could pay all their bills through 2014, let alone the rest of 2013, if they would flip both AM & FM to sports.
Morning Drive news is a cash-cow. Sports is a cash-cow on steroids, and it doesn't require big ratings. Don't get too hung up on that "pledge" made back when TMISU moved KT'R to FM, and launched Sports Parkinglot 6~Twenty. It was a foolish thing to say, but aside from about 5 people, who else remembers it? (sfx - crickets chirping)
Wikipedia:
"It is co-owned with KTAR on 620 kHz in the AM band, which split off from KTAR-FM on 1 January 2007 as to provide more news on 92.3 FM and more sports on 620 AM, which absorbed the assets of co-owned KMVP at 860 kHz in Phoenix."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAR-FM
More news? Really?
Wikipedia:
"It is co-owned with KTAR on 620 kHz in the AM band, which split off from KTAR-FM on 1 January 2007 as to provide more news on 92.3 FM and more sports on 620 AM, which absorbed the assets of co-owned KMVP at 860 kHz in Phoenix."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAR-FM
More news? Really?
Wikipedia? Really?
Yup...Sports Parkinglots 6~Twenty, 92~Three and 8~Sixty have 'em all. All the rest (9~Ten, 10~Sixty) are but mere bridesmaids. Whoever said monopolies are bad, never owned one!
Well, it's a good thing 92.3 is still the valley's "breaking news" station because breaking news never breaks anymore during those sports simulcasts.
910 has the Tucson Mildcats and the Dial Glo...er, I mean Westwood One football games, plus NASCAR.
But now that KMVP is going to be carrying more sports (43 Coyotes games, plus ASU basketball if 620 has a Suns or 'Yotes game on at the same time), why don't TMISU just take back the station from the Halleluyah crowd and run ESPN Radio when no games are on?
At least put the ESPN Radio baseball playoff games there. They've run almost none of the games for the last few years, including the World Series, and the ones they do carry are joined in progress after all that done-to-death Cardinals talk. I can understand preempting them for local games, but the babblers are expendable.
Wikipedia:
"It is co-owned with KTAR on 620 kHz in the AM band, which split off from KTAR-FM on 1 January 2007 as to provide more news on 92.3 FM and more sports on 620 AM, which absorbed the assets of co-owned KMVP at 860 kHz in Phoenix."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAR-FM
More news? Really?
Wikipedia? Shirley, you jest. They're about as credible as those two bozos in Buckeye claiming to know something about radio!
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