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Monday Mar 31, 2003 gazette Expos land English radio deal
The Montreal Expos reached agreement with radio station The Team 990 to broadcast their games in English this season, the club announced as its season opened Monday.
The Expos were already on local radio in French in a 148-game package split between stations CKAC and CJMS.
As yet, the club has no local television broadcaster.
The English radio broadcast deal came through when a local Mercedes dealer and Goldenpalace.com signed on as top sponsors, Expos vice-president Claude Delorme said.
Broadcasts are to begin April 7 when the Expos begin a three-game stand in Chicago. Elliot Price returns as play-by play announcer and will work with a variety of analysts.

Tuesday, November 20, 2001 FORMER EXPOS OWNERS SAY THEY WERE VICTIMS OF FRAUD Former shareholders of the Montreal Expos are suing major league baseball and the club's former majority owner Jeffrey Loria.
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 Despite uncertainty, Expos negotiating stadium lease for next season cp According to reports, the Montreal Expos are negotiating a new lease on Olympic Stadium despite uncertainty about the team's future.
Wednesday, November 12, 2001 BROCHU PINNED HOPES ON NEW STADIUM cp
The former president of the Montreal Expos, Claude Brochu, says if the city loses the Expos, it will be because the team failed to clinch a deal to build a downtown stadium.
Wednesday, November 07, 2001 Expos await burial cp
They didn't bury the Montreal Expos yesterday. They just dug the grave and ordered the hearse. After a four-hour meeting at a depressing concrete hotel, a Texas League pop-up from a freeway off-ramp, the owners of Major League Baseball did agree to contract two franchises.
Monday, November 05, 2001 Expos facing their final out cp Two days after the upstart 4-year-old Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series, the 33-year-old Expos await a dramatically different fate today when baseball's owners meet in a hotel here.
25/Nov/2000 CITY PREPARED TO SELL ITS EXPOS SHARES
The City of Montreal says it will sell its shares in the Montreal Expos, if the other Canadian shareholders decide to sell.
Saturday 26 August 2000 Bernard Landry balks at more public cash for Expos Club continues to send out confusing signals
Thursday 24 August 2000 Expos drop ball-park land Downtown property earmarked for stadium set to go back on the market
Thursday 24 August 2000 End of the Expos in Montreal Giving up option on the only suitable piece of land in downtown area is death knell JACK TODD
February 2000 Playing ball downtown The gleaming new design for a downtown baseball stadium, unveiled this week by the Expos' principal shareholder, Jeffrey Loria, has much to recommend it.
First, there's the cost of the stadium, to be built in the block bounded by Peel, Mountain, St. Jacques and Notre Dame Sts. Mr. Loria's $200-million plan shaves $50 million off the initial design proposed by former managing partner Claude Brochu. At a time when sports stadiums across North America are getting more expensive, the Montreal ball park promises to be a model of simplicity and economy, without sacrificing much in the way of comfort or efficiency.
Another issue is one of taxation, and fairness. Once it is completed in 2002, the ball park will be transferred to the Olympic Installations Board, allowing the Expos to escape millions in annual property taxes. But the fact remains that almost across the street from the stadium, in the Molson Centre, the Canadiens continue to pay $11 million a year in property taxes to the city (the highest, by far, in the NHL).
The city, as a shareholder in the Expos, is in a conflict of interest here. In one case, it is happy to forgo property taxes; in another, it won't budge by a penny on what it is owed and is even fighting the Canadiens in court.
The Canadiens' owner, Molson Cos., has a right to be upset. The company built the Molson Centre without a nickel of public money, and faces a huge tax bill. On the other hand, the Expos are getting a 20-year subsidy from the Quebec government, worth about $160 million, to pay interest on their stadium loans, and yet will pay no property tax at all.
Brochu methodically outlines case.

Thursday 4 March 1999 Expos fans aren't singing in the rain It looks like the storm clouds that seem to follow Brochu will wash team out of Montreal STEPHANIE MYLES

Thursday 4 March 1999 Brochu blames premier Says Bouchard shot down stadium plans DAVID JOHNSTON
Tuesday 2 March 1999 Expos might see a new pitch Texas software firm is likely candidate to go to bat for baseball in Montreal, sources say The Texas investor said to be pondering an investment in the Expos is involved with a "very well-known" company currently talking to different levels of government about conditions for opening a plant in the Montreal area, a local investment consultant says.
The consultant, Luc Berlinguette, took Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque to Houston last weekend to meet with some of the company's senior representatives.
Tuesday 2 March 1999 Horse trading Mayor tries to corral ballpark investors PEGGY CURRAN As a boy, Pierre Bourque dreamed of being a cowboy. On Saturday he rode off into the sunset to rescue the Expos. Yet skeptical Montrealers may doubt the mayor's ability to pull a John Wayne. Somehow it's hard to picture Bourque commandeering a stage coach full of cash or swaggering into a saloon saying "howdy, partner."
Tuesday 2 March 1999 Brochu, Menard play cat and mouse STEPHANIE MYLES It became painfully clear yesterday that even when the two sides of the Expos' ownership occupy the same territory, they operate like two ships passing on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Last week, president and general partner Claude Brochu took a daily walkabout around the practice diamonds of Roger Dean Stadium, sort of an "all is well, situation normal" tour of his fiefdom. .. Mark Routtenberg and chairman of the board Jacques Menard ??
Tuesday, December 15, 1998 ..."mid-January the drop-dead date," Everything on track for new stadium
Monday 7 December 1998 Montreal doesn't want baseball: George Steinbrenner thinks it might be time for the Montreal Expos to move. "Why don't people support their team?" the New York Yankees owner asked. "Maybe they just care about hockey."
October 03, 1998 MSO, Expos should team upby JOSH FREED
Sunday, October 04, 1998 They're all just idle threats by TOMMY SCHNURMACHER The Expos want a new stadium and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra wants a new concert hall.
- The mystery investor will almost certainly be Serge Savard, Hall of Fame defenceman, former Canadiens GM and businessman extraordinaire. Savard, according to a Le Devoir report, is buying into the team in partnership with Phil O'Brien and will replace Brochu as the club's president and managing partner.
- Bronfman not interested in Expos
- Expos must bounce Brochu Jacques Menard has strong credentials to lead majority ownership
Wednesday 30 September 1998 Expos get local 'buy-in' offers City businesspeople have offered to buy a slice of the Expos to help the team "relaunch" its proposed downtown stadium. Wider ownership fits in with the Quebec government's views.
Wednesday 30 September 1998 Losing Expos won't hurt, Cliche says But accountant firm's study shows significant economic contribution from baseball tourists
Saturday 5 September 1998 Brochu calls for stadium unity No room for nay-saying in wake of Bouchard's rejection
Sunday 5 July 1998 Does Montreal want Expos? (saved)
Thursday, June 25, 1998 If Montrealers don't care about the Expos, why should the government? By Jeffrey Simpson OTTAWA -- A FEW weeks ago in Montreal, I decided for the first time in two years to take in a ballgame. And why not, with the New York Yankees in town? The Yankees pack 'em in everywhere because, well, they're the Yankees, baseball's equivalent to hockey's Montreal Canadiens or basketball's Chicago Bulls. Love or hate 'em -- and I hated 'em throughout my career as baseball fan -- the Yankees had drawing power
Saturday 13 June 1998 Expos need new ball-park idea This week's announcement by Expos chairman Jacques Menard that investment house Nesbitt Burns is designing a new financing proposal for the club's proposed $250-million downtown ball park has highlighted the failure of the existing plan, and put pressure on the club to come up with more creative ideas.
Experts in stadium-funding methods are predicting that Nesbitt Burns will propose new "tourist taxes" to pay for the ball park.
Friday 26 June 1998 Savard still wants a winner L. IAN MACDONALD (saved)
Saturday 13 June 1998 Business slow to support new ball park DON MACDONALD The Expos are making this promise to the business community: If you build it, the fans will come. But this pitch has pulled in less than $40 million in business contributions toward a downtown baseball park, far short of the $100 million for which the team was hoping.
Friday 8 May 1998 Two strikes on ball park In era of cutbacks, Brochu should forget squeeze play on governments by L. IAN MACDONALD ...But he isn't going to get his field of dreams built by threatening to leave town if governments don't come up with tax breaks and creative funding to round out private financing for his $250-million project. Neither, as time runs out on his self-imposed deadline of June 30, should he count on a crisis of self-esteem of Montreal as a major-league city.

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June 21 Expos unveil plans for new park by Jack Todd
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