Re: MESSAGE ID: 1EC610858

[KEVIN VAHEY <kvahey@dnsmain.vw.org>]

> >   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.

  The Red Sox simply shuttled the announcers between booths, if the game
was on TV, Curt Gowdy would do the first and last 3, and the other
announcer would be doing radio.

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