Editing Pittsburgh Pirates (section)

===Radio and TV===
[[File:Pittsburgh Pirates radio affiliates.png|thumb|right|Map of Pirate radio affiliates|300px]]
The Pirates broadcast the first ever baseball game over the radio on August 5, 1921. [[Harold Arlin]], a foreman at [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation|Westinghouse]], announced the game over [[KDKA (AM)|KDKA]] from a box seat next to the first base [[Dugout (baseball)|dugout]] at [[Forbes Field]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Take Me Out to the Ballpark|last= Leventhal|first= Josh|author2=Jessica MacMurray |year= 2000|publisher= [[Workman Publishing Company]]|location= [[New York, New York]]|page= 53|isbn= 1-57912-112-8}}</ref><ref name="Voices">{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Curt |author-link=Curt Smith (author) |title=Voices of Summer |year=2005 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |location=New York City |isbn=0-7867-1446-8}}</ref> KDKA had received its broadcasting license only nine months before, becoming the first commercially licensed radio station in the world. Pirate games would be sporadically broadcast over the radio for the next decade; regular broadcasts began in the mid-1930s, with [[Rosey Rowswell]] becoming the voice of the Pirates in 1936.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9JFWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hEENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5316,4083212&dq=rosey+rowswell&hl=en |title= Greensburg Daily Tribune. February 7, 1955, pp. 1}}</ref> Except for a few years on [[WBGG (AM)|WWSW]] in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Pirates were on KDKA for 61 years. KDKA's 50,000-watt [[clear-channel station|clear channel]] enabled Pirates fans across the eastern half of North America at night to hear the games.

In 2007, the Pirates chose to end the longest relationship between a team and a radio station in American professional sports and moved to FM [[talk radio]] station [[WPGB]]. The Pirates cited the desire to reach more people in the 25–54 age bracket coveted by advertisers. The acquisition of the rights means that [[Clear Channel Communications]] holds the rights to every major sports team in Pittsburgh. The Pirates have long had a radio network that has extended across four states. Stations for the 2007 season included Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland radio broadcasters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/pit/schedule/radio_network.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810230624/http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/pit/schedule/radio_network.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 10, 2007 |title=Pirates Radio Network |publisher=Pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com |date=January 2, 2010 |access-date=December 5, 2010}}</ref>

On October 1, 2011, Clear Channel announced that they would not renew their deal with the Pirates, and the team shortly thereafter announced a deal to transfer back to [[CBS Radio]] via FM [[sports radio]] station [[KDKA-FM]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/sports/bob-smiziks-blog/30280-pirates-moving-to-the-fan |title=Smizik on Sports – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |publisher=Communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com |access-date=October 2, 2013}}</ref> which became official on October 12.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111012&content_id=25619018&vkey=news_pit&c_id=pit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015035615/http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111012&content_id=25619018&vkey=news_pit&c_id=pit |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 15, 2011 |title=Pirates, KDKA-FM agree to broadcasting deal |publisher=Pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com |date=October 12, 2011 |access-date=October 12, 2011}}</ref>
On March 2, 2016, it was announced a new deal was reached for the Pirates to remain on KDKA-FM.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirates/2016/03/02/Pirates-KDKA-FM-agree-to-new-contract-pittsburgh/stories/201603020162 |title=Pirates, KDKA-FM agree to new contract |publisher=Post-Gazette.com |date=March 2, 2016 |access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> As part of the deal, KDKA-AM has returned as essentially the AM flagship of the team, simulcasting all weekday afternoon games, select other broadcasts, and serving as the backup station for any games that KDKA-FM can not air due to conflicts with [[Pittsburgh Panthers]] football and men's basketball.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.radioinsight.com/headlines/205559/pittsburgh-pirates-extend-with-kdka-fm-return-to-kdka| title = Pittsburgh Pirates extend with KDKA-FM, return to KDKA - Radio Insight.com| date = February 26, 2021}}</ref>

Games are televised on [[SportsNet Pittsburgh]], the Pirates' cable television outlet since 1986, when it was known as KBL. The network is majority owned by [[Fenway Sports Group]], owners of the [[Boston Red Sox]] and [[Pittsburgh Penguins]]. The Pirates became joint owners of the channel on December 16, 2023, with operations to be produced by the Red Sox's home network [[NESN]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SportsNet Pittsburgh to remain television home of the Pirates |url=https://www.mlb.com/pirates/news/sportsnet-pittsburgh-to-continue-to-broadcast-pirates-games?affiliateId=pit-sportsnet-panel-12132023 |website=mlb.com |access-date=December 13, 2023}}</ref> During the 2016 season, the Pirates averaged a 7.22 rating and 83,000 viewers on primetime TV broadcasts.<ref>[https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2016/09/28/here-are-the-2016-mlb-prime-time-television-ratings-for-each-team/2/ Here Are The 2016 MLB Prime Time Television Ratings For Each Team] - Maury Brown, Forbes SportsMoney, September 28, 2016</ref> Apart from any Pirates games aired nationally on Fox, there has been no over-the-air coverage of the Pirates since 2002. Previously, [[KDKA-TV]] aired Pirates games for 38 years (1957–1994). Games also aired on [[WPXI]] (1995–1996) and on [[WPGH-TV]] and WCWB (1997–2002).