List of Los Angeles Dodgers Broadcasters - Broadcast Outlets

Broadcast Outlets

Since 2006, the over-the-air games have aired on KCAL-TV (Channel 9) after the two parties signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal in 2005, and will air 50 games per season. Since 1997, The cable television home of the Dodgers has been Fox Sports Net Prime Ticket (previously known as Fox Sports Net West 2). The previous over-the-air television homes for the Dodgers were KCOP-TV (Channel 13) from 2002-2005, KTLA-TV (Channel 5) from 1993-2001, and KTTV (Channel 11) from 1958-1992. In their New York days, WOR (Channel 9, now WWOR-TV) carried Dodgers games from 1951 until their move following the season of 1957.

Starting in the late 1970s through the early 1990s, the Dodgers put a small number of their home games on a subscription/pay-per-view service appropriately carried Dodgervision. During that timeframe, in addition to the road telecasts from KTTV, selected home games were also televised on the ONTV subscription service, the now-defunct Z Channel/SportsChannel Los Angeles network, and then again, on a pay-per-view basis until a majority of Dodgers games debuted on the then-new Fox Sports Net West 2 in 1997, just around the same time FSN West 2's parent company, News Corporation (also owner of KTTV) bought the team from the O'Malley family. In relation to News Corp's purchase of the Dodgers, there was speculation that the Dodgers over-the-air telecasts would return to KTTV, but they were still under contract to KTLA. KTLA's contract with the Dodgers ended in 2001, and the over-the-air telecasts then moved to KTTV's now-sister station, KCOP, with the production handled by FSN West 2.

On radio, the Dodgers will be broadcast in 2012 on KLAC (570 AM). In October 2011 the team signed a three-year deal with KLAC parent company Clear Channel Communications. KABC (790 AM) was the Dodgers' flagship station from 1973 through 1997 and from 2008 through 2011. The games had aired on KFWB (980 AM) from 2002 through 2007. Other station to carry the Dodgers included KXTA (1150 AM; now KTLK), which was a sports-talk station, from 1998 through 2001. KFI (640 AM) was the radio flagship from 1961 to 1972. And previous to that, KMPC (710 AM, now KSPN) was the original flagship radio station in Los Angeles of the vast Dodgers Radio Network, which is carried on 16 stations in five states (California, Nevada, New Mexico, Hawaii, Florida, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands). Their Spanish radio network was led by KHJ which took over in 2008 from longtime home KWKW (1330 AM), with Jarrin, Pepe YƱiguez, and former Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela on the call, and was carried on six stations in California, Nevada, and Arizona. In 2011 Spanish-language Dodger broadcasts returned to KTNQ, the station that carried the games from 1979 to 1989.

Scully normally does all nine innings (plus extra innings if necessary) on locally televised games (KCAL and FSN Prime Ticket), with the first three innings being simulcast on radio, while Steiner and Monday take over in the final innings on radio. However, Scully's current schedule calls for him to work only the home and road games within the National League Western division and any West Coast interleague contests within the American League West, as he decided in recent years to cut back on his schedule. In Scully's absence, play-by-play newcomer Eric Collins and Steve Lyons (a former analyst for Fox Sports' national baseball coverage) work the games together on television only, while Steiner and Monday continue to call the game on the radio network.

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