WHDH sports

[John Polcari <john@bitmedia.com>]

>It should be noted that a large chunk of Channel 5's history sits
>over at the Sports Museum of New England in Allston, as they >have custody 
of newsfilm and 2 inch tape from the old WHDH. >WSBK I believe "owns" the 
rights to it now as the Herald-Traveler >refused to sell the footage to 
WCVB.

I know from personal experience, that the WHDH sports archives physically 
sat around for years at WSBK, and I can't remember them once, actually 
using any of it.  And it wasn't that large a "chunk" either. Mostly 2 inch, 
the rest 16mm it only took up about half of a small room.

It never occurred to me to wonder why we (WSBK) wound up with the stuff 
instead of WCVB, I always assumed it was because we did the Sox Broadcasts, 
and most of the archives that I saw was Sox stuff.

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In a similar vein...

Although I was probably way too young to appreciate it,  I understand that 
Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding did fill-in during Red Sox long rain delays and 
rainouts on WHDH radio.  Can anybody confirm this? And do any tapes exist?

Hi

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