Mets on the Air in 2015

[Edgy MD]

Sports Bidness Daily just announced that the Yankees have struck a deal with WPIX to broadcast 21 home games a year for the next four years.

WPIX, of course, apart from dishing out a generous diet of Two and Half Men reruns, also broadcasts 25 Mets games a year. Not sure if this means the Mets getting dumped for the Yankees again, or if the two will be sharing a broadcast partner.

Have the teams ever shared a broadcast partner? Have the Mets erred in failing to insist on an exclusivity clause in their contract?

Does a return to WWOR beckon, if not now then later?

[Frayed Knot]

Those MFY games shown on 'Free' TV tended to fall mostly on weekdays (Tuesdays in particular it seemed to me) in recent years while NYM PIX games tended towards weekends .
Now maybe that was dictated by the times that the station had open rather than from club preferences, but the free games are rare enough in either case to where it's certainly possible that the two teams could co-exist on one channel in the same season.


And I sure hope that the Yanx didn't issue a press release to announce this, coming as it did on the day after they failed to even try for Max Scherzer!!

[Ceetar]

I'd be all set to go all-SNY. I bet Fman would be too.

Of course, my dream is that they open up MLB.TV for locals and I cut out cable all together.

But yeah, coexisting for now seems like what's gonna happen.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: And I sure hope that the Yanx didn't issue a press release to announce this, coming as it did on the day after they failed to even try for Max Scherzer!!

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[G-Fafif]

Giants and MFYs shared Channel 11 in the 1950s. I mention that to show it can be done, but it occurs to me that one of them left town eventually.

Goodbye MFYs. Good luck wherever.

[ashie62]

I believe WWOR changed ownership and is billed as "My 9" Georgia Peach Communications out of Atlanta GA.

[Fman99]

Man I would love love LOVE for the Mets to dump WPIX and put all their games on SNY, MSG, Fox Sports, HGTV, or any of the other 1900 channels that I DO receive up here in the 'Cuse.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ashie62 wrote: I believe WWOR changed ownership and is billed as "My 9" Georgia Peach Communications out of Atlanta GA.

Nah, it's a NY/NJ station. I'll leave the devil of the
details to you if you disagree.

[Theoldmole]

We didn't have TV back then, but I remember it as Yankees on Channel 11 (Ballantine and White Owl), Dodgers on Channel 9 (our had has never lost its skill), Giants on Channel 5 (Piels and Chesterfield). Dodgers on radio on WMGM, along with Warmup Time, Sports Extra, and Today's Baseball.

[G-Fafif]

Per WPIX-TV's history of itself.

The station's association with Major League Baseball started only 21 days after the station first went on the air. On July 6, 1948 WPIX aired a game between rivals the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers. And WPIX camera crews began their dominate telecasts of top Madison Square Garden events. By the end of the stations second year, WPIX led all stations with remote telecast of baseball, Rangers� hockey, football, Knicks basketball, boxing, wrestling, and stock car races. The New York Giants started in 1949 and the Yankees in 1951 on WPIX. The station teamed with the Yankees from 1951 through 1998. And when, after nine seasons on WPIX, the NY Giants went to the West Coast in 1957, the station quickly signed a record-breaking contract with the Yankees to televise over 140 ball games at home and on the road. The contract for over 400 programming hours was at the time the largest single time sale in the history of the medium. For 47 years, the station was the broadcast home of the New York Yankees. And since 1999, it has been the Mets that have made WPIX a baseball destination.

[Fman99]

Having given this more thought, a MFY move to WPIX may be the impetus to get all of their games, both MFY and Met, on to the local airwaves. The majority of baseball fans in this town are YLDBs and I think they'd end up piping in that channel for all the games. The WWOR MFY games have always been carried on local channels here in the past.

[Guest cooby]

No way either team would make it better for the fans to watch

[G-Fafif]

Jackie Robinson knew where to tune in once he was no longer playing...for a year, anyway.

[Benjamin Grimm]

One The Wiggles are in your head, they tend to stay there. (Both of my kids outgrew The Wiggles years ago.) But I see this thread title and I think, "Mets on the Air, Rock-a-bye Your Bear."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm sorry to hear John Sterling apparently lost everything in that high-rise fire in Edgewater yesterday.

It was "Burn Baby Burn!"

[Edgy MD]

Bobby Ojeda, out as Mets in-studio analyst.

Front of the line to replace him is... Nelson Figueroa?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

NellyFigs!

I'm shocked that Bobby O overestimates the worth of his opinion.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Pretty sad they can't afford him ... when's Darling's term
up? With him on MLB and TBS already he'll probably be the
next to jump ship.

[ashie62]

Ojeda was very critical of the Mets?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ashie62 wrote: Ojeda was very critical of the Mets?

He was. But I really don't think this was the case.

[Guest d'Kong76]

He was refreshingly critical?
Will Nelson's first year be as a free intern?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wasn't a real big Bobby O fan and felt like the broadcast had too much 86 Met flavor as it is.

Was hoping Nelson Figeroa's Wife would take the job though. That bish tells it like it is.

[G-Fafif]

Figueroa will be on track to get the job, then be cut just before Opening Day.

Loved Bobby O in that role. Sorry to lose him. Then again, seeing as how he came on board in 2009, perhaps he's been the problem these last six years.

[Guest themetfairy]

Bobby was a good guy and a good sport - I'll miss him.

[Ceetar]

I voraciously turned off SNY after games, win or lose, to avoid hearing Ojeda, so can't say I'm disappointed to see him gone. Figgy would be interesting.

[Guest d'Kong76]

The fan split over like/dislike of Bobby O is certainly not
anything new, but I can't imagine what would make you say
Figgy would bring something to the table.

Based on what?

[Edgy MD]

Nelson would bring back the eyebrow factor that's been missing since Josh Satin played his way off the team.

Alisa, on the other hand, is nobody's fool. She knows exactly which thread to look for herself in.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess I don't follow or something...

[Edgy MD]

We have a "Wifey Watch" thread. And there's Alisa actually wearing a jersey that says "WIFEY." That's funny!

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: The fan split over like/dislike of Bobby O is certainly not anything new, but I can't imagine what would make you say Figgy would bring something to the table. Based on what?

well based on him being not Bobby O at this point is good enough for me.

I can't say I've heard him do any serious analysis, but the interviews he gave while he was here seemed like he'd be at least decent.

At any rate, I don't see him followed Ojeda's talk radio philosophy of "pick a topic and yell about it for the entire show' angle.