Re: WCCM To Air Lowell Spinners Baseball

[Dan Bourret <dbradio@yahoo.com>]

WJUL used to carry U-Mass Lowell Cheifs (when they were the Chiefs)
baseball games.  I did play-by-play for a couple of games in 1993, as I
was also covering the games when I worked at WCAP.  The broadcast was
good but sometimes a bit unclear.  I have no idea how they were
broadcast, but they certainly have the ability to do it.  Should be
interesting.  Dan Bourret

- --- Mark <markwats@netway.com> wrote:
> It was announced today that WCCM in Lawrence will be
> airing Lowell Spinners
> baseball games this year.The Spinners are the New
> York-Penn League
> affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.WLLH had been
> carrying Spinners' games for
> the past 3 seasons(this coming season is the team's
> 4th in Lowell) but with
> the sale to Mega Broadcasting that should be
> finalized sometime in mid to
> late April,the Spinners were left without a radio
> home till today.WCCM is
> planning to air 65 of the team's 80 game
> schedule.WCCM also announced that
> they have hired WLLH's news and sports director Bob
> Ellis,who will work
> full time for WCCM in addition to continuing in his
> play by play role for
> Spinners' games.Lowell Sun sports writer Chaz
> Scoggins will be doing color
> for many of the 65 games WCCM plans to air.Ellis will
> join WCCM sometime in
> April.
> And if that wasn't enough news from Pat Costa,it was
> also announced that
> WCCM will be setting up a studio in Lowell,to be in
> operation sometime in
> the near future.WCCM plans to originate some news
> coverage from this
> facility.Costa said that WCCM will broadcast news and
> events of the
> Lowell,Lawrence and Haverhill areas,and with WLLH
> flipping to Spanish
> shortly,he feels this is a perfect time to establish
> a presence in Greater
> Lowell.
> Oh,(yes,more from Pat Costa) WHAV will be airing some
> Lowell Spinners games
> in Spanish this season,details and exact number of
> games to be aired still
> in the works.
> So what happened to WCAP??? I'm surprised they didn't
> land the Spinners.And
> with Bob Ellis going to WCCM,I wonder if they will
> carry U Mass Lowell
> Hockey,which WLLH had for many years(Ellis called
> those games also).WCCM
> has been carrying Merrimack College
> hockey,basketball,and High School
> basketball in the Winter.Is there room for more??WCAP
> has the Lowell Lock
> Monsters AHL games,so they probably won't have any
> room for U Mass Lowell
> hockey.Maybe some local businesses,(or even a few $$$
> from a local radio
> outlet) can donate some money to enable WJUL,the U
> Mass Lowell station to
> carry some or all of the hockey games next season.I
> don't believe WJUL has
> carried many,if any,games in recent years.I'm sure
> with phone line costs
> for road games,WJUL probably couldn't do too many
> road games,but they do
> have a Marti and the Tsongas Arena is within a short
> walk from their
> studios.Just a thought.
> Mark Watson
> 

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