As the 1965 baseball season began, it was known that the Milwaukee Braves would be moving to Atlanta for the next season. In an attempt to introduce the team to its new city, Atlanta TV Station WSB, Channel 2, carried some of their games with Mel Allen, Ernie Johnson and Hank Morgan doing the announcing. Atlanta radio station WSB - 750-AM - also did the games with the same announcers.
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Regionally syndicated sports in teamless markets?
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Here, we got a lot of syndication. WCSC aired Jaguars preseason games in 2000, weirdly just for that year and that year only. Only Panthers games (the local team) have aired since. The Falcons have aired on radio here for the past several years (910 AM), partly due to Roddy White being from our area along with Ovie Mughelli, and because the PD of the station that carries them is from GA.
The Falcons also aired for several years on WCSC 1390 and other stations.
The Redskins carried their games as recently as '94 on WXTC 1390, and they even aired for a couple years on WXTC FM, a 100,000 watt station.
The Falcons also aired for several years on WCSC 1390 and other stations.
The Redskins carried their games as recently as '94 on WXTC 1390, and they even aired for a couple years on WXTC FM, a 100,000 watt station.
...uh, what major league sports team has ever been located in Charleston (per the question of my original post)?...charlestondxman said:
...I didn't ask about markets where major league franchises have never been based...Iowan said:
...as per my original post, I'd hardly consider the Americans/Vulcans (WFL) or Stallions (USFL) to be major league franchises, and they weren't even baseball...Charles1 said:
I've mentioned many times over time that the Rockford stations carried regionally-syndicated sports packages through the years. WTVO had the Cubs until the end of the 1987 season (they moved to WIFR the next season), while WQRF carried broadcasts of the other Chicago and Milwaukee teams throughout the 80s, as scheduling warranted. WQRF also carried St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers games, starting around the 1988 season (I never understood the Rangers broadcast, other than maybe time filler). Before my time, WREX carried Chicago White Sox games in the '70s, and looking at YouTube videos that a former employee posted, I believe WIFR also carried Brewers games until the early 80s before WQRF got a hold of them. IIRC, WIFR and WQRF split the Big Ten regional broadcasts; one of them carried University of Illinois football/basketball exclusively, while the other had the package of Big Ten games of the week.
My family left for Los Angeles by the summer of 1988, so I don't know how long each of these stations' coverage for the aforementioned team lasted. I do know that the local cable systems added then-SportsChannel Chicago by '87 and WGN had been on cable locally forever, so it made up for the loss for the local channels.
My family left for Los Angeles by the summer of 1988, so I don't know how long each of these stations' coverage for the aforementioned team lasted. I do know that the local cable systems added then-SportsChannel Chicago by '87 and WGN had been on cable locally forever, so it made up for the loss for the local channels.
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