Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode 18

“How radio listeners need their own baseball play-by-play”.  From March 18, 2021.  Listeners have been tuning in on radio to live play-by-play of baseball games for nearly a century.  In Toronto, Blue Jays baseball on the radio became the soundtrack of the city in the glory years of the early 1990s, when the Jays won the World Series two years in a row.  But now, the corporation that owns both the Jays and the broadcast says it's dropping its specialized radio broadcast, and putting sound from tv on the radio instead.  No other team in Major League Baseball goes without a home radio crew.  TV audio is a poor substitute on radio. And it goes against the idea of accessible media.  Commentary.  For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of audio of Tom Cheek's famous call of the 1993 championship game on radio, posted to YouTube by MLB and tv audio posted by MLB; and from Sportsnet The Fan 590.  For more on hearing sports play-by-play on High Definition Radio -- HD-- please check Season Two, Episode 12. (Photo: me with the World Series trophies at a time when 1050CHUM was home to the Jays Radio play-by-play.)