Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, KEVIN VAHEY wrote:

>   Ok lets try to clean up the Red Sox timeline here......
> 
>   From 1958-1971 The Red Sox and WHDH AM-TV operated on what was in effect
> a handshake deal and was renewed each year without question. First hint of
> trouble came when there was a nasty tech strike around 1969 in which AFTRA
> honored the picket line and leaving Sox listeners and viewers with Leo
> Egan and Spike Jones.

...
 
>   Now for the first time radio and tv would have seperate announcing
> teams....WHDH kept Ned Martin and hired someone who didn't even make it to
> the  all star break (he seemed to enjoy cold ones during the game)....and
> then WHDH gave the role to Dave Martin, who would be replaced by Jim
> Woods in 1974.

But WAS it for the first time?  Prior to 1958, when there was no Channel
5, the Red Sox were on WHDH radio and WBZ-TV.  Their move back to Channel
4 upon the demise of the old WHDH-TV seemed natural.

I assume the Red Sox were on WBZ-TV since its inception.  I seem to
remember that the Boston Braves were on WNAC and WNAC-TV.

What I don't know is when the Red Sox first started on WHDH radio and
whether they were on any other station before that.  Donna?

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