Here's a sign of the times and of the assorted demographics therein: The Dynamo is dropping its English-language radio game broadcasts this season in favor of a series of weekly podcasts via the team's website.

David Brady, the team's executive vice president, said the Dynamo will continue with game broadcasts on Spanish radio but has elected not to renew its English language distribution agreement with Entercom, which owns KILT (610 AM) and KIKK (650 AM) as well as several FM signals.

In lieu of English language radio, Brady said the team will stream the audio of games televised on KUBE (Channel 57) at houstondynamo.com. Glenn Davis and Eddie Robinson will return as play by play announcer and analyst, respectively.

"We had a good relationship with Entercom, but we bounced around on their stations, and fans had trouble keeping up with which station we would be on," Brady said. "We've decided to provide content about the team in a different way."

Brady said MLS teams increasingly are turning to alternate game broadcast formats. Los Angeles FC streams its games on YouTube, he said, and DC United just signed a multi-year deal to stream its games on FloSports.

"The soccer fan is younger and enjoys having the games available through their phones and mobile devices," Brady said. "We looked at how our content was most consumed by fans, and we are adjusting to provide it. It's almost purely an adjustment for content. It wasn't about cost."

Other than four games on national outlets, all Dynamo regular-season games will be on Channel 57. The team produces its local telecasts in conjunction with Game Creek Video, which also provides production trucks for Astros and Rockets games on AT&T SportsNet Southwest.

Starting with the MLS regular season in March, Brady said the Dynamo will produce weekly podcasts with coach Wilmer Cabrera and general manager Matt Jordan and also will have a weekly player podcast.

"The coach's show will be looking at the previous game and the game coming up, and we hope the general manager's show will dive into player moves and about the minor league clubs and the developmental academy players," Brady said.

"The players' show will be about getting to know the players. We want to tell their stories and felt that podcasting was a great opportunity to service fans who are thirsty for more content from us."

Davis, who will host the podcasts in addition to his TV work on Channel 57, said he will try to strike a balance between the detail required on a radio broadcast and the restraint that is more suited to a TV call.

"I don't think that a little dead air can be a bad thing, but I probably will try to give a little more detail (for fans listening on the website)," Davis said.

As for the podcasts, he said, "Sports is as much about entertainment as it is about the games. The players have tremendous stories and backgrounds, and we'll have a chance to talk to them about that."

Audience drops for NBA, Daytona

Sunday was a relatively glum day for sports viewership. The NBA All-Star game had a 3.8 Nielsen rating with 6.8 million viewers on TNT and TBS, down from 4.3 and 7.65 million last year, when the game aired opposite the Winter Olympics from South Korea.

This year's competition, as noted by Sports Business Daily, came from UFC Fight Night, which drew 1.5 million viewers on ESPN. The NBA Saturday night skills events averaged five million viewers, up from 4.66 million last year, and the Rising Star game Friday averaged 1.46 million, up from 1.39 million.

The Daytona 500, meanwhile, slipped to a 5.3 rating with 9.17 million viewers on Fox. That matches last year's rating but is down a smidgen in average viewers.

Baseball gears up

Fox Sports has picked up six Astros games for its Saturday MLB schedule: Indians-Astros on April 27 on FS1, Astros-Red Sox on May 18, Red Sox-Astros on May 25, Astros-Yankees on June 22, Mariners-Astros on June 29, Angels-Astros on July 6 and Astros-A's on Aug. 17.

The Indians, Mariners and A's games will be on FS1; the remaining games will be on Fox Broadcasting stations, including KRIV (Channel 26). ...

Sunday begins year three for Todd Kalas and Geoff Blum on Astros telecasts with the first of 10 spring training games on AT&T SportsNet Southwest.

In addition to Sunday's game against the Braves, other upcoming games are next Wednesday against the Nationals and next Thursday against the Marlins. ...

Angels owner Arte Moreno confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that he is interested in buying Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket from Disney. There's no indication yet, however, that Disney is inclined to break up the Fox Sports Net group for separate buyers. ...

Red Sox flagship WEEI will pair veteran Joe Castiglione with Sean McDonough, Josh Lewin and Mario Impemba on a rotating basis. Chris Berman, NESN announcers Dave O'Brien and Tom Caron and WEEI announcers Lou Merloni and Dale Arnold also will call some games.

NESN, meanwhile, said it plans to pair O'Brien with analysts Jerry Remy and Dennis Eckersley for at least 30 games.

And to think we were stunned a few years ago when the Astros decided to pair Milo Hamilton with Dave Raymond or Brett Dolan on home games while using Dolan and Raymond on road games. ...

Meanwhile, longtime Orioles announcer Joe Angel said he will not return to the team's broadcast this season, retiring after 42 years on the air. No word yet on his replacement.

Four DVRs, no waiting

ESPN on Saturday will launch an NBA pregame show on Twitter called "Hoop Streams." Cassidy Hubbarth will host from Oracle Arena, where the Rockets play the Warriors at 7:30 p.m.

Mike Breen and Mark Jackson will call the Rockets-Warriors game on ABC, preceded by "NBA Countdown." Jeff Van Gundy is engaged with USA Basketball national team coaching duties and will miss the telecast. ...

Ryan Howard has signed on with ESPN as a baseball analyst. ... NBC Sports has shifted its Olympics, production and operations portfolios to group president Pete Bevacqua. NBC Sports chairman Mark Lazarus now oversees the NBC News group, CNBC and the company's cable entertainment divisions. ...

NBC celebrates ... actually, commemorates probably is a better word — the 25th anniversary of the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding shenanigans Monday with three showings of its 2014 documentary "Nancy & Tonya) at 11:30 a.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. on Olympic Channel.

Former Cy-Fair basketball star Nneka Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks, two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Simone Manuel of Sugar Land and Olympic shot put gold medalist Michelle Carter of Red Oak and the University of Texas are among the athletes interviewed for "Unapologetic: The Black Female Athlete," which airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2 as part of the network's observance of Black History Month.