Friday, September 13, 2013

NYC Radio: Whole New Ballgame For WCBS-AM

Tim Scheld
Tim Scheld, director of news and programming at WCBS-880 AM, would love for the Yankees to go all the way to another World Series, according to David Hinckley at NYDaily News.

“We hope we have another storybook ending to deliver this season,” says Scheld, whose station has broadcast Yankees play-by-play since 2002. “We have nothing but great memories of our time carrying the team. They are a class operation.”

Come next season, however, it’s a new ballgame for WCBS-AM, because the Yankees are moving to sister station WFAN 660 AM / 101.9 FM.

Scheld looks forward to it.

“Baseball is our pastime but news is our passion,” he says — and the way it’s been for the last dozen years, news goes off when the Yankees take the field, which is 190-200 times a year.

This becomes more noticeable on a night like this past Tuesday, when the Yankees were playing the Orioles while the city was counting mayoral primary ballots.

Those kinds of conflicts, says Scheld, are one reason WCBS-AM became a pioneer in online news streaming, so people who aren’t baseball fans could keep getting WCBS-AM news during games.

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