Operation "End The Radio Delay" - PLEASE PARTICIPATE!

I've heard fans using profanity coming over the radio broadcaster's mic many times despite the delay. Is this delay only intended to cover sounds in the broadcast booth?

I usually like to listen to the radio feed while watching the game on TV and was highly annoyed with the delay.  My only consolation is that this is not happening to Bill King...then I'd really be pissed, ooops, angry.

screw that crap. Here in Fresno I can barely pick up the radio feed AND my cable is all jacked up (probably because I don't have cable and somehow the channels are coming through my antenna.. no joke).

I will send this email though. I always loved having the radio sync up with cable.

This is ridiculous.

Good job Nico! Keep up the good work!

snail-mailing to those two addresses, CBS Radio and KIFR ..

"I also find Tom Leykis to be extremely offensive.  I’m sure he is generating plenty of revenue for your radio station but I truly don’t understand where he gets his bizarre views of women.  I find it ironic that you feel the need to delay baseball games but are perfectly happy to allow Tom to offend at least 50% of the population."  

(my opinion of course but I do think its ironic that they delay baseball but are willing to have a guy who openly calls females B**ch*s)

I tend to be lazy and often leave my radio on the A's station even when the A's are not playing.  So I was thrilled that we got an FM station, not so happy about Tom though.  He just seems so sophomoric.

I really hope we get some action out of this before the first home game. Is this a new policy, because I don't remember the 1550 broadcasts being subject to delay last year.

In the meantime, if you're watching at home and you have Tivo or some kind of DVR, you can probably synch up the TV broadcast with the radio delay.

If you're at the game, um, I don't know...Ritilin?

have you actually called those people?

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We've had it in Texas since last season.  The only time it affects me is when I listen in stadium.  When I listen to radio, I do just radio, I don't do the "Radio with TV" thing, so that's not an issue.

Zito up to bat for the first time against Peavy. and.... he strikes out swinging.

This is one of the worst threads/posts in the history of AN.  Period - end of Story.

Most people on this website are totally dedicated to a baseball franchise that has a limited fan base, a limited market, a sub par stadium, and up until recently horrifically pathetic ownership.  But what trumps all of this - the fact that the A's gets no media love in the Bay Area.  Worse still, the inferior high end "private school" franchise across the Bay gets all the media love, including a 5 billion watt radio station which touts itself as the Sports Leader yet almost completely denies the existence of our professional sports franchise.

Much of the inferior media coverage is related the lack of a home base on radio.  Our flagship station during the past few years is seemingly different each year - going from country to oldies, to poorly signaled Christian radio, to poorly signaled gen X station in Concord which can't be heard in parts of downtown Oakland and downtown San Francisco.  

Seriously, it's been comedic and rather reminiscent of something from the movie Major League - you couldn't make this stuff up.  

So finally, we get ownership that wants to so something about the poor radio coverage - they go and bang out a contract with a major media outlet, that not only provides a powerful, clear signal - they do it on FM RADIO!!  And guess what?  Suddenly, the poor "inner city school" franchise has a nicer sounding signal for baseball games than the private school franchise across the Bay.  Ken Korach's pipes crackle and glisten across the FM radio and it's a beautiful thing.  A's fans should finally rejoice - we will never go without again while driving in our cars or in our backyards!

But no.  Too good to be true.  I open up AN today and see some severely misguided activism that so squarely punches our newly found radio gift horse right in the mouth, I practically wretch.  Organizing a letter campaign - with threats?  We will not to listen?  Boycotting advertisers?  What kind of nonsense is this?  

I implore anyone reading this to not send this POS form letter.  If you feel strong enough about the delays on radio broadcasts:  use the addresses, send the letters and suggest that they change their policy.  But unless you hate the A's, Lew Wolff, John Fisher and/or Billy Beane, I urge you not to threaten this radio station with non-listenership and advertising boycotts - this is offensive and is no way to treat the flagship station that our ownership group worked so hard to secure.  If you do write, feel free to compliment them and give thanks for finally giving us a big league station that allows to enjoy our team wherever we are.

Stations do stuff like this because they fear fines from the FCC for letting bad language on the air. There are armies of "save the children" interest groups out there with nothing better to do than write the FCC to complain about boobies on TV and fart jokes on the radio.

So the best way to approach this problem is to ask the FCC to issue a statement to the effect that they won't fine radio stations for broadcasting stray profanity from the stands during Angels games.

I don't have their address handy due to technical difficulties, but I'll post it shortly if nobody else does.

And on that note, a paper letter counts for more than an e-mail when you're pressuring public servants. I used to do that stuff for a living, and that's one of the lessons I learned the hard way.

Done.

At least you can listen and/or watch the games for free. I follow the A's from Japan and 1) you can't get MLB TV at all in Japan because of rights agreements, even though broadcasters here show only a tiny number of MLB games all year (Seattle, Yankees, Red Sox; you can guess why) and 2)Even though I am paying for MLB Gameday radio I still get to listen to the ads, which I think really stinks.

Good luck with your campaign.

After this campaign, if we can just get everyone to write in asking for that uber-annoying radio ad that talks about, "HOT under the collar, BURNing the candle at both ends...." yada yada off the air, my listening experience will be complete!