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Title: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: Ct Yankee on February 26, 2017, 1455 UTC

Season's Greetings :)!
To my knowledge, these are the 2017 50,000 watt clear channel stations carrying major league baseball in English this year.  There are other 50,000 watt stations but they are class B stations.  Please free feel to add and/or correct.  All are flagships unless noted.  Affiliates may carry alternative programming at times (Montreal Hockey/Soccer, UConn Football/Basketball)

 660am WFAN  New York Yankees
 670am WSCR  Chicago Cubs
 680am KNBR  San Francisco Giants
 690am CKGM  Toronto Blue Jays   Affiliate in Montreal, Quebec in English
 700am WLW    Cincinnati Reds
 710am KIRO    Seattle Mariners
 710am WOR    New York Mets
 850am KOA     Colorado Rockies
 890am WLS     Chicago White Sox
1080am WTIC   Boston Red Sox   Affiliate in Hartford, CT
1100am WTAM  Cleveland Indians
1120am KMOX  Saint Louis Cardinals
1500am WFED  Washington Nationals

Title: Re: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: Bill F on March 27, 2017, 0334 UTC

Looks like Philly gave up on baseball.  1210 WPHT used to carry it but no more.
So, if you are a Phillies fan you'll need to visit here to find a local station to listen on...
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/schedule/radio_network.jsp

Don't even think about it being on local over the air tv, comcast took care of that.

I guess I will be listening to them on 1440 am or 94.1 fm. 

Title: Re: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: pinto vortando on March 27, 2017, 0850 UTC

Quote from: Bill F on March 27, 2017, 0334 UTC

Don't even think about it being on local over the air tv

The days of walking into a barber shop mid-afternoon on a weekday and watching the ball game on over the air TV are a thing of the past.  Baseball games in the afternoon and on OTA TV are, as Ernie Harwell would say, "looong gone".

Title: Re: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: pinto vortando on March 27, 2017, 1122 UTC

1270 AM WXYT Detroit Tigers

50000 watts day and night but directional patterns (favoring NE). 

Title: Re: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: MDK2 on March 27, 2017, 1431 UTC

After checking out the nighttime broadcast patterns for each of those and testing the ones that maybe, possibly I can copy (no chance with WFAN in NYC, for example), it looks like 1120 in Saint Louis is the only one I can reliably copy. Those are the radio listening perils of living in a densely populated region that's isolated from other urban areas.

Title: Re: Baseball 50,000 watt clear channel stations
Post by: R4002 on April 09, 2017, 1525 UTC

Thanks for this list, Ct Yankee :D

I usually use XM Satellite Radio to listen to MLB games while in the car, and most of their audio seems to be relays of local AM stations that are carrying the game in question (for example, last night's game was a relay of WTMJ 620 kHz, a class B station doing 10,000 watts nighttime power) but its nice to have a "real" radio station to listen to in addition to the line of sight satellite signals.

Tried listening to the Cubs/Brewers game late last night [2200-0300 local time, east coast USA] on WSCR 670 kHz AM...this is on a Chevrolet car radio.  Unfortunately I heard nothing but a heterodyne. WFAN on 660 kHz was, of course, coming in loud and clear.  I generally don't have trouble receiving NYC clear channel AM stations (660, 770, 880, etc) but for whatever reason Chicago wasn't coming in.

WLW was basically nil as well, and its usually similar signal strength to WFAN, WCBS, etc.