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1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 6:33AM #51
BigGuy Posts: 37,980	Apr 25, 2012 -- 6:08AM, Stratocaster wrote: Apr 25, 2012 -- 5:54AM, BigGuy wrote: Radio deal could send Yankees to FM By PHIL MUSHNICK Last Updated: 2:00 AM, April 25, 2012 Time to change the dial. The Yankees appear bound for FM radio. Local sports radio is on the precipice of radical change as ESPN, according to a strong wind blowing from the radio industry, is nearing the completion of a long-sought deal with an FM channel to give it a clear, full and far-reaching nighttime signal — something 1050 ESPN could not provide. The deal, upon completion — and that could be by the end of this week — would give ESPN long-term programming rights on the FM station, allowing the sports network to chase — and hard — Yankees rights. AP John Sterling Status in limbo. The Yankees, heard on WCBS-AM 880 since 2002, are radio free-agents after this season. It’s also fully anticipated that Knicks’ and Rangers’ nighttime radio broadcasts would switch from 1050 to ESPN’s new FM spot. ESPN, reached late yesterday afternoon, declined to comment. It’s highly unlikely that ESPN, if it lands the Yankees — especially attached to a big price tag — would be bound to retain the team’s current longtime broadcast duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. Sterling has been calling Yankees radiocasts since 1989 and been partnered with Waldman since 1999. WCBS currently pays the Yankees about $14 million per season for rights. It is a big money-loser for the station and the CBS Radio Network, which also owns WFAN. WFAN’s deal with the Mets, in the neighborhood of $7 million per year, expires after this season, thus, once ESPN puts the finish to its FM deal, it’s inconceivable that ESPN’s FM side won’t start next year as the radio home of the Yankees, its first preference, or the Mets. No word, yet, on which FM channel ESPN is close to signing on with, but a source claims that one of its options last July, renamed WEMP 101.9 (from WRXP), is no longer in the picture. The Yankees always have been listened to locally on AM radio, beginning in 1939 on WABC. Over the last 73 years they have been heard on seven different AM stations, including WCBS, WABC (770), WOR (710), and WINS (1010). phil.mushnick@nypost.com Read more: www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/radio_de... FM? Hearing Sterling in stereo might just send Loon over the edge! I don't even want to think about surround-sound... no telling where the ball is then!! :-0 LMAO ! "Never seen a payroll on a ring" "Leave the gun, take the cannoli "
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 6:58AM #52
Yankeeloon Posts: 8,126	Lol!!!
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 4:07PM #53
Lola Posts: 12,555	How about Craner... will he get FM?
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 4:15PM #54
bomberhojoe Posts: 7,180	An FM competitor for WFAN in NYC? This is a dream come true. Nightmare for Mikey F. John 3:16 * Ephesians 2:8-9 * Romans 10:9-10 * John 14:3-6 * Romans 5:8
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 4:27PM #55
Stratocaster Posts: 6,405	Apr 25, 2012 -- 4:07PM, Lola wrote: How about Craner... will he get FM? Sadly no. He gets one Yankee game a week, and a shovel. And that is it. It's a cruel world.
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 4:34PM #56
Lola Posts: 12,555	Apr 25, 2012 -- 6:33AM, BigGuy wrote: Apr 25, 2012 -- 6:08AM, Stratocaster wrote: Apr 25, 2012 -- 5:54AM, BigGuy wrote: Radio deal could send Yankees to FM By PHIL MUSHNICK Last Updated: 2:00 AM, April 25, 2012 Time to change the dial. The Yankees appear bound for FM radio. Local sports radio is on the precipice of radical change as ESPN, according to a strong wind blowing from the radio industry, is nearing the completion of a long-sought deal with an FM channel to give it a clear, full and far-reaching nighttime signal — something 1050 ESPN could not provide. The deal, upon completion — and that could be by the end of this week — would give ESPN long-term programming rights on the FM station, allowing the sports network to chase — and hard — Yankees rights. AP John Sterling Status in limbo. The Yankees, heard on WCBS-AM 880 since 2002, are radio free-agents after this season. It’s also fully anticipated that Knicks’ and Rangers’ nighttime radio broadcasts would switch from 1050 to ESPN’s new FM spot. ESPN, reached late yesterday afternoon, declined to comment. It’s highly unlikely that ESPN, if it lands the Yankees — especially attached to a big price tag — would be bound to retain the team’s current longtime broadcast duo of John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman. Sterling has been calling Yankees radiocasts since 1989 and been partnered with Waldman since 1999. WCBS currently pays the Yankees about $14 million per season for rights. It is a big money-loser for the station and the CBS Radio Network, which also owns WFAN. WFAN’s deal with the Mets, in the neighborhood of $7 million per year, expires after this season, thus, once ESPN puts the finish to its FM deal, it’s inconceivable that ESPN’s FM side won’t start next year as the radio home of the Yankees, its first preference, or the Mets. No word, yet, on which FM channel ESPN is close to signing on with, but a source claims that one of its options last July, renamed WEMP 101.9 (from WRXP), is no longer in the picture. The Yankees always have been listened to locally on AM radio, beginning in 1939 on WABC. Over the last 73 years they have been heard on seven different AM stations, including WCBS, WABC (770), WOR (710), and WINS (1010). phil.mushnick@nypost.com Read more: www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/radio_de... FM? Hearing Sterling in stereo might just send Loon over the edge! I don't even want to think about surround-sound... no telling where the ball is then!! :-0 LMAO ! If not Sterling and Waldman who will be doing the broadcast.... be careful what you wish for. God only knows who ESPN would hire to do the games! Bobby Ballentine could be out of a job soon.
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 8:02PM #57
captainclutch2 Posts: 708	Sterling is a caricature of himself. But i have mlb.com and watched the yanks sox game, and the red sox announcer was wearing a full red sox uniform! So i'll take Sterling's eccentricities and probable senility over the homers which call the other teams.
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 8:43PM #58
BillyTheKid Posts: 4,336	Apr 24, 2012 -- 9:30PM, HeatMiser wrote: Who can take a fastball Knock it in the stands Give an interview With elocution and command The Grandy Man The Grandy Man can The Grandy Man can 'cause he's got a golden glove And hits the ball real good. Bern... Heat Miser ... Bern!!!
1 year ago :: Apr 25, 2012 - 10:11PM #59
davis2 Posts: 1,169	Come on Yankees! Not ESPN... The certified Yankee haters? Say it ain't so! Hal? Hank? Do NOT give ESPN the radio rights for any amount... Please?
1 year ago :: Apr 26, 2012 - 10:33AM #60
MADMAX Posts: 5,843	Apr 25, 2012 -- 4:15PM, bomberhojoe wrote: An FM competitor for WFAN in NYC? This is a dream come true. Nightmare for Mikey F. I agree 100%. It would be nice if they show the local shows on TV too.