When MTV launched in the early 1980s, the first song it aired was, “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
Now it appears that streaming technology, if not killing the baseball radio play-by-play announcer, at least is displacing him. The A’s on Tuesday announced they have ditched baseball on the radio. Instead, all games will be broadcast on A’s Cast, streamed via TuneIn.
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If you’re of a certain age, you recall listening to baseball games over the radio. The medium was accessible. The announcers were trusted, unhurried storytellers. There was something about building images in your mind based on the radio by-play-by announcer’s account of the game that made the process almost interactive.