Well, this doesn’t make any sense. Alpha Broadcasting’s KXTG (that’s 95.5″The Game” to us Portlanders)—the radio home of the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Ducks, Portland Timbers, and the John Canzano “Talk Loudly and Say Outlandish Things” radio hour—will be now broadcasting Dodgers games throughout the 2011 MLB season.
Take it away publicist with who is not afraid to use that ALL CAPS key:
“The great thing about this new relationship with the LOS ANGELES DODGERS is to not only bring the listener great baseball with legendary announcers, but we can wrap the schedule on 95-5 around our primary sports partners – The BLAZERS, DUCKS, SEAHAWKS and TIMBERS,” said ALPHA Dir./Talk Programming BRIAN JENNINGS. “We’ll be able to carry select games in APRIL, then a much heavier DODGERS schedule through the summer and back to select games in SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER.
Sports broadcasts are mainly a regional affair, and to randomly pipe in games from a baseball team in Los Angeles—rather than say the Seattle Mariners, or even the geographically more relevant, San Francisco Giants—seems very odd. The good news is that Vin Scully’s soothing voice will be on our FM dial, even if it means we’ll have to hear the broadcasting legend wax poetically about portly relief pitcher Jonathan Broxton blowing yet another save.
Happiest day of the year. No more draining my iPhone battery listening to Vin through the MLB.com app.
I just wish they would play Vancouver Canucks games, or even Winter Hawks.
When did Graham become the PR man over at Alpha?
Git? Because Graham use to write in ALL-CAPS and now he doesn’t
Also, I thought Mariners games were exclusively broadcast on 1080 The Fan
You know, the non-John Canzano sports talk station in town
It really would be nice if they would broadcast Hawks games.
For that reason, I CONDEMN THEE!
They should broadcast Team Mercury softball games.
GO METS!
@Nick Christensen: Absolutely agree. Listening to Vin Scully call a game is like listening to a really great storyteller.
Why is SF more geographically more relevant again?
you only get 3 innings of Vin on radio, but it’s 3 great innings of history/Americana. Charley Steiner does the rest of the game, and he’s damn good, too. the Dodgers are one of those teams that are far larger than the region, and there are a ton of ex-pat Californicators up here. there is a big market for this here.
Agree about the Winterhawks. The reason we get the Mariners (now Dodgers etc) broadcasts is BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE AN MB TEAM AND NEVER WILL. Or an NHL or NFL franchise, because this is NOT a sports town in fact it SUCKS for sports. A bunch of bandwagon nerds that are in to the Blazers does’nt count either most of them are into it because its trendy( I don’t mean the real fans). I went to playoff games in the “90’s, you? Where were these fans when the Blazers were floundering a few years ago? Don’t lie to me and tell me they were around…..they probably had’nt moved here yet,lol
I thought only old people had radios and they would like Vin Scully. He is always selling them stuff.
@The Showstopper –but at least we have a footbol team. Those NFL franchises have labor problems and are “loosing money”. And no one under 40 watches the baseball.
The Winter Hawks are on the radio: mostly 970 AM, sometimes 750 AM, rarely on 95.5 FM. They won last night in Spokane: 10 to 5. The Hawks scored 5 goals in under 2 minutes during the 1st period.
Glad we now have a National League team on the radio. That whole “designated hitter” bullshit? It’s bullshit.
@ KrazyKlown…thanks! Did not know that
This is great news-hey, 95.5, put together a “95.5 Dodgers” sticker and I’ll plaster my car with them.