Sports
WBAL is the co-flagship station (with WIYY) of Baltimore Ravens football and the flagship station for Baltimore Orioles baseball and Navy football.
WBAL is also an affiliate of Sporting News Radio which it broadcasts late nights and weekends.
Since the Orioles began their inaugural season in 1954, WBAL has been their flagship station for most of their existence, though not continuously; for example, it carried Orioles games every season from 1987 to 2006 (after which the team's games were broadcast on crosstown rival WJZ-FM "105.7 The Fan"), and resumed that status in 2011. Ravens games have been broadcast on WBAL and WIYY since the 2006 season. In the event that the Orioles and Ravens are playing on the same day, WBAL will broadcast the Orioles game, while WIYY gets the Ravens game.
Other teams whose games have been broadcast on WBAL include the Baltimore Colts, the University of Maryland Terrapins and the Towson Tigers.
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