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The Orange County Register has concluded that the Dodgers will bring their English-language radio broadcasts back to KABC 790 AM after an 11-year absence.
The announcement is to be made during KABC's Doug McIntyre program. Dodgers owner Frank McCourt is scheduled to talk on air about the deal at 11 a.m. Monday. ...
KABC subscribers to a listeners club got the news first. Although not named, sources said it does refer to the Dodgers. Negotiations had been ongoing for several months.
The e-mail said: "On Monday, October 15, turn your radios on by 8:30 A.M. during McIntyre in the Morning as TalkRadio 790 KABC makes a major programming announcement. Then stay tuned for Al Rantel's 11 A.M. program as the news (and excitement) continues!"
The move would end the Dodgers' uncomfortable fit with otherwise all-news KFWB 980 AM. KABC is not a sportstalk station either, however. I'm not a listener, but a quick look at the current schedule indicates that most affected by the Dodgers would be Al Rantel (6 p.m. - 9 p.m.) and Mark Levin (9 p.m. - 11 p.m.).
Meanwhile, I know a number of oldtime fans will grow nostalgic at the idea of the Dodgers and Paul Harvey (11:45 a.m. - 12 noon) being reunited again. (Man, Harvey is almost 90.) And now you know some of the rest of the story ...
Not to sound naive, but what makes you think Bostonians are mindlessly reactive to media stimuli, "hype", and not just naturally excited about their team?
(This unsolicited comment brought to you by, oh, I dunno, 20-mule team Borax. After all, Harvey and Reagan were contemporaries.)
I almost missed the beginning of the game celebrating the Patriots spinning away from the remnants of Dallas.
Levin is syndicated, so I'm sure he won't mind. Rantel is on the air something like fifteen hours a day, so he could use the break. He might come up with something interesting to say. Some day.
Did you see my pun in the Fan Fiction thread? That was for you.
I wasn't talking about hype, though. People do get excited about the team. Hype is almost unnecessary around here. I was talking about hysteria, both positive and negative, and which does seem to be driven by the media. One example was when they got Paul Mirabelli back from San Diego, some local stations sent helicopters to follow the state police car that was bringing him from the airport to Fenway, where he was scheduled to catch Wakefield. That seemed just a wee bit over the top to me.
& spring training games will be heard in real time, that's the biggest thing for me.
just a little bit.
'Shooter' Beck lived as hard as he played
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3060456
I remember the old KABC coverage as being pretty good (Al Downing tearing into the callers was always good for a laugh), but who knows what we'll be getting now.
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