Re: Expos radio-TV

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@WORLD.STD.COM>]

On 6 Oct 99,  Bob Nelson wrote:

> I'm not sure what sort of say the Red Sox have in
> markets that far away from Boston. The Yankees have
> appeared on radio stations in Worcester, Cape Cod,
> Providence, and Burlington, VT. The Mets are in
> Western Mass. and the Burlington, VT market. I think
> the Yanks were also carried on WZON in Bangor (when
> they were owned by-- horrors!--die-hard Sox fan
> Stephen King)... Anyway,
> I think once you get 40 or 50 miles away from a team's
> home, you probably don't need permission to carry a 
> rival team's games (at least on RADIO...not sure about
> TV...)

I'm not sure you need permission to carry another team's games anywhere.  
But it may be that the station in Vermont had a contract with the Red Sox 
and, because of that contract, needed permission to carry another team's 
games.


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