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Subject: Re: Simulcasts.

Some more TV/radio simulcasts:

For a time, Chuck Adler did a nightly three-hour talk show on WRKO radio
 from 7 to 10 P.M., an hour of which (the 8 to 9 P.M. hour) was also
 simulcast on channel 68. Adler did his shows from channel 68's studios,
 with a phone line (probably a pretty decent one, sound-quality-wise)
 conmecting it to WRKO.

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, Providence College men's basketball
 games on WJAR-TV (channel 10) were simulcasts. On those games on TV,
 the radio (over the old WJAR) coverage was the soundtrack of the 
 TV broadcast with Chris Clark on play-by-play (on radio-only games,
 Mr. Clark did a radio-only play-by-play call).

During the same time, the games of the Philadelphia Flyers (hockey) were
 simulcasts. By the mid-1970's, every Flyer game was on TV in the City Of
 Brotherly Love (either on WTAF-TV--mostly away games, or Prism--mostly
 home games). Gene Hart and the late Don Earle (who previously did Bruins'
 games for channel 38) split the play-by-play duties, and the old WCAU
 radio (1210) in Philly (why were those call letters ever allowed to
 disappear??) carried the sound portion of the TV broadcast.

And I think there was a brief time in the early-to-mid 1970's when Johnny
 Most and Satch Sanders were doing the Celtics' games on WBZ radio that
 for the then-infrequent (only 12 regular-season games a year!) televised
 games, Most and Sanders would do the game for channel 4 and 'BZ radio
 would pick-up the sound for their radio broadcast. I think Len Berman
 was also involved (sidelines? third man in the booth?) for only those
 games on TV.

Going further back, several programs in the late 1940's and early 1950's
 were simulcast on both network TV and network radio. Among them were
 Arthur Godfrey's various shows (both daytime and nighttime), "The Voice
 Of Firestone" (the pioneering showcase of classical music and opera),
 "Ozzie and Harriet" (after 1952, when the TV version started), and even
 Groucho Marx's classic game show "You Bet Your Life".

But in the case of Groucho, the show was filmed (later taped) in advance,
 and edited down to a half-hour. Not only that, but the two versions were
 edited separately. The idea was that any interesting visual stuff would
 be only in the TV version, and for the radio side, something else that
 didn't need to be seen to be appreciated was inserted instead.

There may have been several other radio and TV shows from the early years
 simulcast in both media.

Joseph Gallant

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