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Yankees on the radio?

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bbb

I read last week, that GR is dropping the Yanks this year. For years, I really didn't like having them on, and would rather listen to sports talk. But, the last two years, I fell in love with the day to day drama of listening to the whole season. Of course, that is when they decide to drop it - after having it on for a good number of years.

Anyway, can the Yanks be picked up at all around the Buffalo area?
 
bbb said:
Anyway, can the Yanks be picked up at all around the Buffalo area?
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IIRC WCBS / 880 New York comes in reasonably well upstate at night.

The WCBS website shows WHAM / Rochester 1180 and WHTK / 1280 Rochester as affiliates. I believe WHAM has the Yankees primarily on the weekend -- today, for example, they have the Yankees / A's at 3:30 according to the WHAM website.

Since I am such a fan of baseball on radio, I sprung for the MLB.com Gameday Audio package -- $15 for the season, not too pricey. Gets me all MLB game audio -- I can enjoy Vin Scully calling Dodgers games and Jon Miller calling Giants games.

Richard in Allentown, PA (ex-East Aurora)
 
bbb said:
I read last week, that GR is dropping the Yanks this year.
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I can kind of see why. The Sabres have risen to challenge even the Bills popularity in the area and with a lot of overlap between NHL, MLB, and NFL it has to be hard to please the Buffalo sports fans, let alone be a program director and try to cram all of that into a broadcast schedule. However, I do think the Yanks and MLB are a blessing from May until September when all we have to talk about is off-season signings and who looks good in shorts at Bills training camp.

I know a lot of people that work in Buffalo radio disagree with my assertion that a second, albeit lower-budget sports station might be able to make a go of it. But, I think it could be done using more of a national perspective toward sports. Maybe it would be done by an independent station or maybe WECK is the answer.

My flame-retardant Asbestos suit is on. :-*
 
I know I'd be listening, Pickle.

RD - Thanks for the info. I had actually googled that, too, but they showed GR still on the roster, so I didn't trust it too much, and I didn't know if I could pick up WHAM very good in S. Buffalo.

I have the mlb audio package for my computer, which I love, but I'd like something that I can listen to when I'm away from my computer. You're talking about the online thing, right? Also, does satellite have the mlb package? (I actually have mlb.tv for my computer, too, but they block out the Yanks - it's so stupid!)
 
bbb said:
I have the mlb audio package for my computer, which I love, but I'd like something that I can listen to when I'm away from my computer. You're talking about the online thing, right? Also, does satellite have the mlb package? (I actually have mlb.tv for my computer, too, but they block out the Yanks - it's so stupid!)
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XM offers the MLB audio package.

I believe the MLB.tv Internet package has to obey broadcast blackout rules to some extent -- e.g. Fox and ESPN exclusivity -- don't know about YES - based telecasts.

MLB's video partners are DirecTV -- which just signed a big new contract with MLB -- and a cable consortium which offers the "Extra Innings" TV package.

Allentown, PA -- a smaller market than Buffalo -- just got its second all-sports station, basically 100% FOX Sports Radio plus the Phillies, with local origination between 5 and 7 PM.

IMO two sports-focused stations are overkill, but that's my own tastes, with no accounting for the economics of sports radio programming.

Richard in Allentown, PA
 
The Yankees have a big upstate NY fan base, one that's been building since 1903, and it's a lot bigger than the fan base of any other single MLB team around here (the Red Sox seem to come closest, then the Mets, then everyone else). So it is a surprise that some Buffalo area station hasn't picked them up.

WHTK in Rochester will only run them on some weeknights when the Red Wings aren't playing (and those will be few and far between until well into September when the playoffs end), and WHAM on some weekend afternoons UNTIL September when their commitments to Syracuse University sports kick in again. I think the closest station to western NY that's running a fairly full Yankee schedule is WHEN/620 in Syracuse, which has a decent signal into Rochester until sunset pattern change time. Then they have to pull in their wattage to the west to protect a co-channel 50 kW blowtorch in Milwaukee.

Fortunately for Yankee fans, WCBS/880 comes in well after dark...
 
1420 WACK out of Newark, NY plays just about the entire Yankees schedule as well, (only are pre-empted for NASCAR races). The signal is very weak at night however, XM plays all the games (using home teams feeds).
 
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