All Baltimore Media Heads to Cooperstown Starting Today!

This is a good news bad news kind of story.

 The bad news is if you want see
Cal
’s enshrinement into the Hall of Fame with Tony Gwynn on Sunday at 1:30pm you will have to be a subscriber to digital cable because ESPN Classic is airing the live broadcast throughout the region. There will no local live TV coverage of the event due to the ESPN exclusivity. However the good news is that you will be able to hear the entire ceremony on ESPN 1300am along with their extensive all day coverage.

Now let’s look at the coverage highlights as the
Baltimore
media corps heads to up state
New York
to cover Cal ’s big day.

 TV news will be out in force with WMAR TV 2, WBAL TV 11, WJZ TV 13 and FOX 45 all sending not only their sports directors but reporters and anchors as well. All four stations will start coverage Thursday.

WBAL’s Gerry Sandusky will host a special on Thursday at 8:30pm called “The Iron Immortal” and that same evening at 10pm WMAR sports director Scott Garceau will host an hour long tribute to Ripken.

WJZ sports director Mark Viviano will do a show Sunday that will immediately following the Yankees-Orioles telecast around 4pm. FOX 45’s Bruce Cunningham also plans a special show on Sunday from Cooperstown after the 10pm news.

WBAL radio is already in Cooperstown and they will be there through Monday morning with reporters Keith Mills, Scott Wykoff, John Patti and sports director Steve Davis doing shows throughout the week. Friday night 8pm-9pm, WBAL will present a one-hour documentary, “The Immortal Ironman,” produced by Keith Mills, Scott Wykoff and John Patti.

Saturday and Sunday WBAL will have live programming starting at 10am till 7pm. 

Friday ESPN 1300am will be live from Cooperstown with Mark Viviano10am-1pm then the Anita Marks Show from 4pm to 7pm will feature live guests and reports from Steve Melewski in Cooperstown . Saturday from 11am to 5pm.it will be Melewski, Damon Yoffe and Ryan Hedrick live from Cooperstown .

WNST 1560am will also have plenty of live reports from Cooperstown on their shows starting on Thursday morning and going throughout the weekend.

Both MASN and Comcast SportsNet will have extensive coverage as well. CSN already has the “8 days of
Cal
,” coverage on SportsNite along with “SportsNite: Hall of Fame Edition” will be on location in Cooperstown from Wednesday, July 25, through Sunday, July 29. Chick Hernandez and Brent Harris will go in-depth with Orioles beat reporters and national baseball analysts looking at
Cal
’s legacy, the business of Cal Ripken, Jr., memorabilia and what comes next in the Hall of Famer’s career. Comcast SportsNet will also speak to the people behind-the-scenes in Cooperstown , going inside the city’s economy and what this weekend means to the community.

MASN will have Jim Hunter in Cooperstown and he will report live during each edition of O’s Xtra starting Thursday and he will also have live reports during the Yankees-Orioles games all weekend. Sunday night the 29^th MASN will present the
Cal
’s 2,131st ballgame as a primetime special.