Re: Red Sox on WHCT

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 10:26 PM 3/19/98 -0500, Mark wrote:
>
>When I was working at WHAV Haverhill from 1984-87,the station did not want
>to spring the bucks for a 15 K line or a satellite dish(if Campbell Sports
>Network was feeding to the bird then)so we received Sox and Bruins games
>from a boombox tuned to 99.1 that was placed on top of the equipment rack
>just outside the air studio.At times it made for some interesting
>happenings,like the night that WPLR New Haven was overpowering and /or
>dogfighting WPLM in mid game,had to go to plan B:feed over the phone from
>WPLM!!

Believe me, the satellite feed wasn't much better. We carried the Bruins
when I worked at WKBR in '88/'89, and I was almost ashamed to air the
games...there was so much static and noise as to make the feeds almost
unlistenable.  I usually ended up using Plan B too.

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