Fewer Cardinals Spring Training games to be televised this year

Fans of the St. Louis Cardinals will apparently have fewer opportunities to watch the World Series champions' spring training games on TV this season.

The Cardinals Nation Blog reports today that only the games between the Cards and the New York Mets (a total of three games) and just one game with the Houston Astros will be carried on TV; and two of those games coincide with the five Cardinal telecasts already scheduled by Fox Sports Midwest.

Fox Sports Midwest is actually carrying more spring training games this year - raising the total from three last year to five in 2012.

Radio coverage on KMOX and the Cardinals Radio Network (which boasts 16 stations serving the Tri-State area) hasn't been announced yet, but in years past, games on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays have been broadcast.

Visit The Cardinals Nation Blog for the whole story.

KMOX's overnight show going national: Overnight America to be syndicated by Dial Global

A St. Louis-based overnight radio show is going into national syndication.

Radio syndicator Dial Global and CBS Radio's KMOX-1120 announced yesterday that KMOX's Overnight America with Jon Grayson will be available nationally starting next Monday, Jan. 30.

The show, which debuted about three years ago, according to Radio Ink, is already carried by CBS stations KDKA in Pittsburgh and WCCO-AM in Minneapolis, and can also be heard on the Radio.com mobile app. No word yet on whether it will come to the Tri-State directly, but since KMOX's signal reaches much of the area already during the nighttime hours, it's not hard to find.

I happen to be a fan of the program, which airs from midnight to 5 a.m. Central time. Grayson covers a variety of topics on each show and always makes it interesting. Last night, for example, Grayson talked about the death of former LAPD detective Philip Vannatter, who was one of the lead investigators on the O.J. Simpson murder case. The wealth of anecdotes Grayson shared captured my interest, and I ended up listening for quite a while, as I often do.

If you're having trouble sleeping some night, give the show a try. I think you might just like it ... and maybe, just maybe, if one of our local talk stations is looking for something different for the overnight hours, it'll come here.