On March 29, 2008, Home Plate was added to XM Radio Online. DirecTV also claims that there is a rights issue brewing over the MLB audio broadcasts, but this has been debated. Talk channel High Voltage was also removed, but put back on the lineup within a week due to fan response. DirecTV wanted to go completely music programming. In late April 2006, DirecTV removed the MLB Home Plate channel from their lineup. XM Canada also produced interviews for play on the other play-by-play channels when no games were being aired. In exchange, they would produce channel 179 with some select exclusive content, and make that channel the home for all the Toronto Blue Jays home games. Canada already carried Home Plate, and now they would carry the complete Major League Baseball package barring XM 174 (Spanish broadcasts).
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The end of the 2005 season was especially active as the satellite company carried both feeds of both teams during the post-season games, and four feeds per world series game (which included a promotion where XM gave out free Roady XTs to all who attended the first World Series 2005 game).Īt the beginning of MLB's second season on XM Radio, XM Radio Canada decided to add all 14 MLB Play-by-Play channels to their platform. The channel was aided throughout the season as XM's subscriber growth prediction exceeded what they expected, with retailers claiming that 15-17% of people who signed up for XM did it for baseball. to do a Saturday mid-morning show on Home Plate. Around launch time, XM announced that they had signed Cal Ripken Jr. XM Satellite Radio even put out a press release about the broadcast. On day one of broadcast, José Canseco made the claim to his former manager turned Home Plate host Kevin Kennedy that Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire took steroids during the 1998 Home Run Chase.
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It launched with a full lineup, and several guests immediately. MLB Home Plate launched at the start of the Major League Baseball season in 2005, ready to entertain the new customers who bought XM to hear their favorite teams. MLB Network Radio is carried on XM channel 89, and was added to the "Best of XM" package on Sirius Satellite Radio on December 10, 2008, airing on channel 209. MLB Home Plate launched in February 2005, as an incentive to entertain the new listeners who signed up for XM's Major League Baseball deal when the games were not on. MLB Network Radio (formerly MLB Home Plate) is an American sports talk radio station on Sirius XM Radio that features Major League Baseball related talk shows, as well as archives and live reports about MLB and such.
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