Re:UMass Sports Networks (WMUA)

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

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 SonnyDaye1@aol.com wrote:

> In the Fall of 65, the next WMUA Voice of The Redmen was my roommate Jeff
> Baker (anyone know whatever became of him? 

I remember Jeff.  I think I knew him in the dorm before he got involved in
the station.  I've just looked in the 1998 Alumni Directory, but there
doesn't seem to be any Jeff Baker listed who graduated in the late 60s.
The earliest is one who graduated in 73.  There are a few more who
graduated in the 80s and 90s.  

> Jeff put together a Redman Sports Network. I remember driving around with Jeff
> and signing up stations for the network. WHAI, Greenfield - WBRK, Pittsfield -
> and I think 2 others (maybe one in Spgfld). After the basketball season was
> over, I remember Jeff selling our Redman Sports Network Banner to Bill
> Rasmussen (then a Spgfld TV Sports Announcer) who would need it for a network
> he was putting together to carry UMass games in the future. I think a coupla
> years after that I heard Bill had started ESPN down in Connecticut.
> -Sonny Daye, WMUA, 1962-1966
 
I didn't know that WMUA was originating the games to commercial stations.
That surprises me.  I do know that WTTT was doing it, though.  BTW, we
might point out that sometime in the early 70s, the team's name was
changed to Minutemen.  They said it was racist to call the team "Redmen." 

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