Editing Baltimore Orioles (section)

==Radio and television coverage==
{{further|List of Baltimore Orioles broadcasters}}

===Radio===
In Baltimore, Orioles radio broadcasts can be heard on [[WBAL (AM)|WBAL-AM]] and [[WIYY]], both owned by [[Hearst Television]]. [[Geoff Arnold (sportscaster)|Geoff Arnold]], [[Melanie Newman]], Brett Hollander, Scott Garceau and [[Kevin Brown (sportscaster)|Kevin Brown]] alternate as [[play-by-play]] announcers. WBAL feeds the games to a [[Baltimore Orioles Radio Network|network]] of 36 stations, covering Washington, D.C., and all or portions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

This is WBAL's fourth stint as the Orioles flagship. WBAL has carried Orioles games for most of the team's time in Baltimore. Prior to WBAL and WIYY, Orioles games were broadcast locally on [[WJZ-FM]] from 2015 to 2021. WJZ had earlier carried broadcasts from 2007 to 2010.

Six former Orioles franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's [[Ford C. Frick Award]] for excellence in broadcasting: [[Chuck Thompson]] (who was also the voice of the old NFL [[History of the Baltimore Colts|Baltimore Colts]]); [[Jon Miller]] (now with the [[San Francisco Giants]]); [[Ernie Harwell]], [[Herb Carneal]]; [[Bob Murphy (announcer)|Bob Murphy]] and [[Harry Caray]] (as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s<ref>''The Sporting News'', March 22, 1945, p. 16.</ref>).

Other former Baltimore announcers include [[Josh Lewin]] (currently with [[New York Mets]]), [[Bill O'Donnell (sportscaster)|Bill O'Donnell]], [[Tom Marr]], Scott Garceau (returned in 2020 season), [[Mel Proctor]], [[Michael Reghi]], former major league catcher [[Buck Martinez]] (now [[Toronto Blue Jays]] play-by-play), Joe Angel and former Oriole players including Brooks Robinson, pitcher [[Mike Flanagan (baseball)|Mike Flanagan]] and outfielder [[John Lowenstein]]. In 1991, the Orioles experimented with longtime TV writer/producer [[Ken Levine (TV personality)|Ken Levine]] as a play-by-play broadcaster. Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as ''[[Cheers]]'' and ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'', but lasted only one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

===Television===
[[MASN]], co-owned by the Orioles and the Washington Nationals, is the team's exclusive television broadcaster. MASN airs almost the entire slate of regular season games. Some exceptions include [[Major League Baseball on Fox|Saturday games]] on either [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] (via its Baltimore affiliate, [[WBFF]]) or [[Fox Sports 1]], or ''[[ESPN Major League Baseball|Sunday Night Baseball]]'' on [[ESPN]]. Many MASN telecasts in conflict with Nationals' game telecasts air on an alternate MASN2 feed.

Veteran sportscaster [[Gary Thorne]] served as lead television announcer from 2007 to 2019, with [[Jim Hunter (sportscaster)|Jim Hunter]] as his backup along with Hall of Fame member and former Orioles pitcher [[Jim Palmer]] and former Oriole infielder [[Mike Bordick]] as color analysts, who almost always work separately. In 2020, Thorne and Palmer were removed from the television booth due to [[COVID-19]] concerns and replaced with Scott Garceau. In 2021, MASN let go Thorne, Hunter, analysts Mike Bordick and [[Rick Dempsey]], and studio host Tom Davis, and added [[Ben McDonald]] as a secondary analyst.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Trezza|first=Joe|title=O's, MASN announce '21 broadcast team|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/masn-makes-changes-to-orioles-broadcast-team|access-date=January 26, 2021|work=Major League Baseball}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ruiz|first=Nathan|date=January 23, 2021|title='I'll treasure that forever': Gary Thorne not returning to Orioles broadcasts in 2021|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-gary-thorne-masn-20210123-meeybwnl65h7rmymffpj37qmyy-story.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124020031/https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-gary-thorne-masn-20210123-meeybwnl65h7rmymffpj37qmyy-story.html |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |access-date=February 14, 2021|website=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Meoli|first=Jon|title=Gary Thorne, Jim Palmer, others won't be at Camden Yards for broadcasts as Orioles limit in-person announce teams|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-thorne-palmer-masn-broadcasts-20200718-u2qg7jpgafhrhkexp2w3njmqbm-story.html|access-date=April 25, 2021|website=baltimoresun.com|date=July 18, 2020 }}</ref> Starting in 2022, Kevin Brown became the primary TV play-by-play announcer, with Garceau, Arnold or Newman the backups.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lucia|first=Joe|title=Kevin Brown will be Orioles full-time TV broadcaster in 2022|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/kevin-brown-will-be-orioles-full-time-tv-broadcaster-in-2022.html|access-date=March 14, 2022|work=Awful Announcing|date=February 28, 2022}}</ref>

The Orioles severed their ties with Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (now [[NBC Sports Washington]]) at the end of the 2006 season in favor of MASN, a joint venture with the [[Washington Nationals]]. It had been the Orioles' cable partner since 1984, when it was known as Home Team Sports. The Orioles and the Washington Nationals have been in a dispute since the early 2010s, MASN is owned by both teams with the Orioles holding an 80% stake. The dispute which is ongoing as of October 2020 contends that the Nationals deserves a greater fee from MASN due to the team's recent success and market growth. When fees paid to each team were first negotiated, both teams were paid the same fees.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bs-sp-orioles-masn-appeal-20201022-jolni75h7fcijcayja6jgdykdy-story.html|work=The Baltimore Sun|title=Orioles lose appeal in $100 million MASN dispute with Nationals, will challenge in New York's highest court|date=October 22, 2020 }}</ref>

WJZ-TV was the Orioles' broadcast TV home, completing its latest stint from 1994 through 2017. Since MASN acquired rights in 2007, its coverage was [[simulcast]] on WJZ-TV under the branding "MASN on WJZ 13". MASN elected not to syndicate any Orioles or Washington Nationals games to broadcast television for the 2018 season, marking the first time since the Orioles' arrival that their games are not on local broadcast television.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Zurawik|first1=David|title=After 64 years, no lineup of Orioles games will be on Baltimore broadcast TV in 2018|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bs-fe-zontv-orioles-masn-wjz-20180327-story.html|work=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=March 27, 2018|archive-date=March 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327230346/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/z-on-tv-blog/bs-fe-zontv-orioles-masn-wjz-20180327-story.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Previously, WJZ-TV carried the team from their arrival in Baltimore in 1954 through 1978. In the first four seasons, WJZ-TV shared coverage with Baltimore's other two stations, [[WMAR-TV]] and [[WBAL-TV]]. The games moved to WMAR from 1979 through 1993 before returning to WJZ-TV. From 1994 to 2009, some Orioles games aired on [[WNUV]].