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The St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network is a United States radio network that broadcasts St. Louis Cardinals baseball games. The network consists of 146 stations 1 (including the flagship station) (52 AM, 58 FM) and six FM translators in nine states (four in the Midwest and five in the South). Its flagship station is KMOX in St. Louis.
Radio: KMOX AM 1120 (2011–present) Cable TV: ... www.stlradio.com - The Cardinals have a large embedded midwestern following due to radio broadcasting of games ...
KMOX (1120 AM) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri.Owned by Audacy, Inc., it is a 50,000 watt Class A clear-channel station with a non-directional signal.The KMOX studios and offices are on Olive Street at Tucker Boulevard in the Park Pacific Building in St. Louis. [2]
The Cardinals moved back to KMOX in the 2011 season, with conflicting games moved to KYKY, an FM station owned by the same group as KMOX. Since the 2019-20 preseason, WXOS (101 ESPN) has been the flagship radio station for the Blues. Chris Kerber and Joe Vitale are the current radio broadcast team.
Hyland emphasized and leveraged KMOX's relationship with the St. Louis Cardinals; he also made the decision in 1960 to eliminate the station's afternoon music programming in favor of talk radio, a critical change which led to the station's subsequent dominance of the St. Louis radio market. He also introduced the first listener call-in programs ...
On July 30, 2015, Fox Sports Midwest and the St. Louis Cardinals agreed to a long-term television rights agreement. The new agreement began in 2018 and will run 15 seasons through the 2032 season. [7] The deal will guarantee the St. Louis Cardinals more than $1 billion, including a 30% equity stake in the network. [8]
In 1969, Wilkerson got his first job on KMOX in St. Louis.He partnered with Bob Costas for the first year of St. Louis Spirits (), 1975–76.He served as a radio play-by-play announcer for St. Louis Cardinals ("Big Red") football from 1973 until the team left for Phoenix following the 1987 season, and returned for one season in 1994, the franchise's first as the Arizona Cardinals.
As such, their radio network blanketed large chunks of the Midwest and Southwest. Also, KMOX was a 50,000-watt clear channel powerhouse, with virtual coast-to-coast coverage at night. A 1936 newspaper article about Laux noted that his work at KMOX included "broadcasting all baseball, football, hockey, boxing, wrestling, basketball and horse ...