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ST. LOUIS (AP) _ The St. Louis Cardinals plan to reunite next
year with their longtime radio partner, the powerful AM station
KMOX, after five years on KTRS.
Officials of the Cardinals and the 50,000-watt station announced
Wednesday a multiyear agreement in principle for KMOX to resume its
role as the team‘s flagship station beginning in 2011.
KMOX carried Cardinals games for 51 years, starting in 1954. The
station‘s signal can be heard at night in more than 40 states,
helping make fans in distant places.
But since 2006 the Cardinals‘ flagship station has been the
smaller KTRS-AM, a move many fans saw as a break with history.
Terms of the return to KMOX weren‘t disclosed. Cardinals
president Bill DeWitt III says KTRS has been ``a great partner‘‘
but the case for going back to KMOX was ``very compelling.‘‘
Announcers Mike Shannon and John Rooney will continue to handle
the play-by-play coverage.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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