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October 05, 2005

This should have been easy

I must be doing something wrong but am stumped.  On the way home from my sister's house in Port St. Lucie last night I was really wanting to listen in on the Yankees playoff game against the Angels (which they won by the way).  I did a scan of the AM radio dial and heard no baseball games at all.  I was actually amazed at how little I heard clearly, period.  When I arrived home I watched the rest of the game and then set out to figure out what local radio affiliate would be carrying the national feed of the major league baseball playoffs in case I found myself in the same position again.  It was being broadcast by Fox, so I went to their web site.  This led me to Fox Sports where they did have a section for Fox Sports Radio.  They give the entire schedule in eastern time zone and claim over 180 affiliates.  Do you think they would have a search feature either by zip or map to find the local affiliate in your area, of course not.  After getting pretty frustrated looking for this, I turned to Google and searched Fox sports affiliates, South Florida.  I was amazed at how many pages were scams that had nothing to do with Fox, radio or sports.  Anyway, nothing came up, other than an old press release saying that a station that used to be a local Fox Sports station had switched to being an Air America affiliate (I will write about Air America another day).  I kept searching and after about 45 minutes with no success threw in the towel.  It is enough to make you go out and buy one of the satellite radio services.  Anyway, what should have been an easy thing for me to find on the web has now turned me off to Fox Sports Radio.  I did find out though that I could get updates and streaming info on the playoffs to my cell phone.  Also, you can watch just about any game on your computer streamed live now as well (they use Quova technology, another company that Rajat Bhargava started and Brad Feld funded, for IP geolocation for blackout purposes).  Lesson of the story, don't get caught driving in the car during the baseball playoffs.

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