KMOX & Rolle! (Originally Posted in the Cardinals Forum)

[Indiana Hoosier]

I know this is not about football but to all you old time Baseball Cardinal fans, KMOX has lost the broadcast rights after 52 years to Cardinal games. KMOX has a very strong signal, and while I was in the Army in Texas and New Jersey, I spent many evenings listing to Harry Carey talk about Musial, Boyer, Gibson, and the other Cardinal greats. What is going on with Rolle? Has anybody heard anything!

 

[Duckjake]

I know this is not about football but to all you old time Baseball Cardinal fans, KMOX has lost the broadcast rights after 52 years to Cardinal games. KMOX has a very strong signal, and while I was in the Army in Texas and New Jersey, I spent many evenings listing to Harry Carey talk about Musial, Boyer, Gibson, and the other Cardinal greats. What is going on with Rolle? Has anybody heard anything!

That's hard to believe. KMOX signal is one of the main reasons I am a Cardinal fan. I have 1120 set on my car radio and can pick up a ragged signal most nights here in Austin TX. Summer nights won't be the same.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

I know this is not about football but to all you old time Baseball Cardinal fans, KMOX has lost the broadcast rights after 52 years to Cardinal games. KMOX has a very strong signal, and while I was in the Army in Texas and New Jersey, I spent many evenings listing to Harry Carey talk about Musial, Boyer, Gibson, and the other Cardinal greats. What is going on with Rolle? Has anybody heard anything!

That is bogus, I cannot believe they would not keep the rights...

 

[JeffGollin]

That's hard to believe. KMOX signal is one of the main reasons I am a Cardinal fan.
You can still pick up roughly half the Cardinal home game broadcasts (with Mike Shannon doing the on-air) - in your car or at home - with XM satellite radio.

Or - you can sign up at MLB.com and stream the Cardinal radio feed of the game on your computer.

Note - XM gives you about 90 - 95% of all games, but they split the announcing coverage between the Cardinals and their opponents (usually the announcers represent whichever team is playing at home during that series - but not always)

Still, it is kind of depressing to see KMOX go off into the sunset. (Oh for those frustrating days of its signal fading in and out of my radio in NJ - "Here comes the pitch! And...And! (sound of static) And, what happened?")

 

[Pariah]

You can still pick up roughly half the Cardinal home game broadcasts (with Mike Shannon doing the on-air) - in your car or at home - with XM satellite radio.

Or you could get them all with Sirius...and listen to either the home or visitor broadcast.

 

[MemphisRam]

One can simply find one of their sister stations and listen online.

There's a station in Memphis that plays the games and broadcasts over the internet, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[stewdog1]

One can simply find one of their sister stations and listen online.

There's a station in Memphis that plays the games and broadcasts over the internet, if I'm not mistaken.

They can't do that anymore. MLB forces them to black out the internet feed. They changed this about 2 years ago.

KMOX losing the rights to the Cardinals is terrible. I get the MLB Extra Innings package, but I still listen in the car when I'm out.

Here's what Bernie Miklasz had to say about it:

It has nothing to do with me. But I just cherished the special and unique tradition that station had with the team and its fans. Anytime that's lost, it's a sad day. And I would say that if I didn't work for KMOX.

I must also say I'm disappointed by the way some of my colleagues are acting at KTRS. Gentlemen: try to have some class in your moment of triumph. It will make you look better. Don't be petty.

Both sides are to blame for this. Infinity for lowballing the Cardinals at the outset of the negotiations and taking a hard-line approach in a mutuallt beneficial relationship -- and for negotiating in the newspapers when discretion would have been a smarter tactic.

And the Cardinals for being greedy hypocrites who ask their ballplayers to take less money to play in STL and keep the team together -- but have an entirely different philosophy when it's their turn to try and squeeze every last nickel out of a radio deal.

I hope it works out for KTRS, the Cardinals and their fans. Most of all, the fans who can't afford satellite radio or who lack Internet capability. There's a lot of them out there, and they matter. I don't sneer at them as some do. I am fortunate enough to afford XM radio, and I love to work the Internet. But I don't view the world so narrowly as to limit the vision to my own eyes; I know many folks out there who have come to rely on the KMOX signal to keep them connected with the team they love. I feel bad for those people.

I wish KTRS the very best and hope they uphold the classy tradition established and maintained for so long in the Cardinals-KMOX relationship.

--B

 

[HeavyB3]

That's hard to believe. KMOX signal is one of the main reasons I am a Cardinal fan.
You can still pick up roughly half the Cardinal home game broadcasts (with Mike Shannon doing the on-air) - in your car or at home - with XM satellite radio.

What channel do you get these Cardinal games on with XM. If they are broadcasting NFL games, i believe they are in violation of broadcast rules. XM does not have the rights to broadcast any nfl games.

 

[Azlen]

XM has MLB and Sirius has the NFL.

 

[thirty-two]

What channel do you get these Cardinal games on with XM. If they are broadcasting NFL games, i believe they are in violation of broadcast rules. XM does not have the rights to broadcast any nfl games.

he's talking about the baseball Cardinals

 

[AZZenny]

This being a baseball forum.