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General Category => Echo Technical Support => Topic started by: curetzky on April 10, 2018, 01:47:26 pm

Title: Why can I listen to some radio stations and not other
Post by: curetzky on April 10, 2018, 01:47:26 pm

I live in Central NJ and a big Mets fan. I can get WFAN which is the Yankees station but when I ask her to play WOR or WOR 710 I get talk radio and not the Mets. Can anyone give some insight on why this might be? I was able to hear them when they were on ESPN radio for the game of the week.

Title: Re: Why can I listen to some radio stations and not other
Post by: renegade600 on April 10, 2018, 03:26:53 pm

you need to ask wor.  do they even stream baseball?   

Title: Re: Why can I listen to some radio stations and not other
Post by: jeffwi on April 10, 2018, 09:01:23 pm

Local radio stations are not allowed to stream games. MLB owns the streaming rights to all MLB games. You have to subscribe to a service such as TuneIn Live at www.tunein.com/alexa.

Title: Re: Why can I listen to some radio stations and not other
Post by: jeffwi on April 10, 2018, 09:09:00 pm

Here's an article giving the options for listening to MLB games on an echo (none free):

https://www.techhive.com/article/3267509/consumer-electronics/how-to-listen-to-live-baseball-games-on-an-amazon-echo.html