MLB Media Notes: Dodgers Game To Be Televised In Spanish, English

Sunday's Dodgers Game To Be Televised In Both English And Spanish

In L.A., Diane Pucin reports the Dodgers, FS Prime Ticket and FS West for Sunday's game against the Cubs are "combining to offer English- and Spanish-language broadcasts." FSN will "provide three extra cameramen, all of them bilingual, to illustrate with video any points" that Dodgers Spanish-language broadcasters Jaime Jarrin, Fernando Valenzuela and Pepe Yniguez "might make in Spanish." FS West and Prime Ticket Senior VP & GM Steve Simpson said the net is "trying to showcase Jaime, who is a Hall of Famer, and offer something extra to a big fan base that we have." Pucin writes the move is a "great idea that is overdue," and the telecasts "won't be identical and they shouldn't." Simpson: "This is a bit of an experiment. We aren't sure what all the content will be, how it will all turn out" (L.A. TIMES, 8/21).

SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: In San Diego, Bill Center reports the Padres are "trying to reconnect their television link to Mexico" after Cox Communications Thursday stopped providing Mexican cable network Cablemas "with content, including Channel 4 San Diego." Channel 4 San Diego VP & GM Craig Nichols noted that Cox' contract with Cablemas "expired in June, but Cox continued to provide content, including the Padres games, for the past six weeks while negotiating a new contract." Nichols noted that the net is "working with the Padres, looking for alternate distribution." Padres President & COO Tom Garfinkel said that options "could include a link to an over-the-air station in Mexico" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 8/21).

WANTING A MOVE: In St. Louis, Dan Caesar notes respondents to a report about the MLB Cardinals possibly leaving KTRS-AM "overwhelmingly have voiced one opinion: Move the radio broadcasts back" to KMOX-AM. Of the 4,000 respondents to a poll on stltoday.com, 78% "want the broadcasts back on KMOX, where they were for nearly five decades before the team bought a 50[%] interest in KTRS and moved the radio coverage there" beginning with the '06 MLB season (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 8/21).