Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858

["Paul R Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>]

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> From: NORIAC@mln.lib.ma.us
> Until WITS got 50,000 watts night power in late 1981, WMEX/WITS had to
>  simulcast Red Sox night games on one (or more) area FM stations to be
>  able to cover the entire metro-Boston market with a clear signal. For
>  the 1975 playoffs and World Series, night games were simulcast on
WBOS-FM,
>  from 1986 through 1978, night games were also on WBOS-FM, and 1979 until
>  the power increase, on WHAV-FM and WPLM-FM (and maybe also WCAV-FM in
>  Brockton, but I'm not sure on the latter). When WMEX got the Sox, there
was
>  considerable ink in Jack Craig's column about the low nighttime power 
>  and poor directional signal. 
> 
> Joseph Gallant
> 
> 

I distinctly remeber the 1978 season was on WWEL-FM (107.9, now of course,
WXKS-FM)
I'll beg off pre-1978 FM signals for the Sox
(Now, the Patriots were on WBOS in 85 or 86 when Sconnix owned WHDH and
WBOS together)

Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH


Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH

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