The Zone

[Thorp]

Why can't the Zone last on the radio past 8PM??????? We're right in the middle of the game and the radio goes out. Anyone else have this issue? Fix the damn tower, please!!

 

[BevoBeef]

I am not sure what is happening now, but previous information was given in the forums that channel 1300
has to cut back their broadcast power when the sun goes down. So it is not equipment but regulations that
is the problem. I blame the radio's scheduling people because they choose to save the FM channel 98.1
for something else. To them baseball is not as important as football for their revenue.

 

[Texanne]

Radio treaty with Mexico.

 

[BertHorn]

At least y'all can listen to it. I'm in Longview and have to try to listen on iheartradio. It seems at game time they switch to the national fox sports broadcast. Yay me

 

[Son of a Son]

Not directed at Texanne, but the Athletic Dept. This treaty stuff is ********. I can hear 590 at my house after dusk with no problems. Is 1300 the only station with this restriction? If so, why, on God's green earth, did we ever contract with 1300?

 

[Thorp]

We get every other channel except 1300 after 8PM. What is this Mexico Treaty?

 

[Texanne]

The Link

The link doesn't mention Mexico, but the treaty (signed, I believe, in 1939) cedes frequencies to Mexico and Canada.

 

[wherzwaldo]

Both 590 and 1300 are licensed for 5kW daytime, 1kW nighttime. If 590 is listenable at night while 1300 is not, that tells me that there are other stations on the 1300kHz frequency that are causing interference, while 590kHz is relatively clear.

 

[cnstoll58]

When I used to live in Dallas, (before gussball brought me home to Austin), I could listen to all the games on 590 - from 200 miles away.

Now I live in Dripping Springs and I can only get the night games on one radio and only just barely. 1300 either doesn't have the power, or their antenna is in a ditch somewhere.

Luckily tho somebody invented the internet, and somebody else was nice enought to put most of the games on it.

 

[4th]

The suns radiation interferes with radio signals and reduces their range in the daytime, so the same power will broadcast much further at night. The problem with this is that at night many stations' ranges would overlap severely, so stations can buy and sell their right to broadcast at a certain power after 8 pm. 1300 has always turned their power way down at 8, simply because whatever agreement they have states what maximum power they can broadcast at night. I'm not sure what other 1300 am would be close enough that their full-power night time range would be interfered with by the zone's, but that's generally why it's done the way it is. Or so I have been told.

 

[okiehorn]

It does not help that the only way to get the games on the internet for audio only is through a cbs pay site. I do not understand why the video feed is free with the radio call, and the radio call only you have to pay for.

Anyway that is why you can't get the game through radio apps or the regular 1300 website. I am hoping that the ESPN deal will include an app we can get the radio calls with. Other schools have these.

 

[BertHorn]

I tried something different with my radio app tuesday night. It looks like if i tune in before the game starts, it doesn't switch over to the national feed. I was able to hear the game up until my TBall game started at 7:30, then i had to turn it off. I'm going to test that out again tonight.

If that doesn't work i can always watch/listen on texassports.com on my phone if it's not a "premium" game

 

[billygoat hill]

If you have an iPhone, download the Skyfire browser app for free. It converts most Flash content to play on your phone. Link thru the UT web site and you can watch the games that way. On 3G the video sometimes freezes up but you still have audio.

 

[BertHorn]

Billygoat- that's what I use. Might be the best $2.99 I've spent

 

[seb44]

Down loaded skyfire. Thanks for the info.

Was able to stream the baseball game tonight from Texas Sports on my i-phone.

 

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[Thorp]

Believe it or not...at 8pm we could still hear the UT baseball game...it wasn't as clear as it had been, but you could hear the game and the comments....is someone paying attention?