Re: Bruins/Montreal 1969 (Was: Re: Heidi answers)

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@mediaone.net>]

By 1968 all Pats road games were televised by NBC but home games never were
( they were still at Fenway Park) and in 68 they were an awful team. Home
games were seen on Channel 6 in Maine and 22 in Springfield, while 30 in
Hartford went with the Jets.

I can not remember if the AFL allowed home games to be televisied if they
were sold out..... that was never a problem here as the Pats only sold out
Fenway Park twice in those days.....

Nope......The Masters was sacred turf at CBS then, as it is now..... again
ATT longlines did not allow that kind of flexability that quickly........

I can remember the hassles I used to have with ATT whenever WMUR would pick
up a TVS college basketball game on a Saturday and then try to get the ABC
service restored for Wide World of Sports. Many a time I needed to pick ABC
off air from Boston or Poland Springs until someone finally threw a patch.

I remember the moon launch scrubbing the B's game....and a befuddled Walter
Cronkite giving the score....I gathered he was not a big hockey fan.




But wasn't the old Channel 5 in Boston (and maybe two or three other CBS
> stations in New England?) going to get the rest of the Bruins/Montreal
> overtime even if most of the country was going to get golf?
>






----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Gallant" <notquite@hotmail.com>
To: <kvahey@mediaone.net>; <notquite@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: Bruins/Montreal 1969 (Was: Re: Heidi answers)


> Thanks on "Heidi". Now I know why I can't remember the game.
>
> It was probably a rare thing when the Pats were on local TV back in the
late
> 1960's, as I seem to recall that not every AFL game was televised, so when
> one was covered by NBC, I think it went into both cities. I can't recall
> more than four or five Pats' games a year on TV in the late 1960's; a
friend
> from New York seems to recall that 13 of the 14 Jets' games were on WNBC
in
> 1968 and 1969 (because they were a much better team).
>
> But wasn't the old Channel 5 in Boston (and maybe two or three other CBS
> stations in New England?) going to get the rest of the Bruins/Montreal
> overtime even if most of the country was going to get golf?
>
> I also remember an incident a few years later concerning the Bruins, but
it
> was a cutaway for a news event, not another sporting event or special.
>
> I recall that around 1971, there was going to be a Sunday-afternoon launch
> of an Apollo moon-landing flight (I think this was the first launch after
> the ill-fated Apollo 13). I recall CBS was going to run an NHL game that
> day, but when the launch was scheduled, I seem to recall the game would
> start live at 1:30 P.M.; and once the first period ended (aproximately
2:10
> P.M.), they would cut to Cape Canavaral to cover the launch. The liftoff
was
> supposed to be around 3:30 P.M., and at about 4:15, CBS was to show, on
> tape-delay, the final two periods of the game.
>
> Lo and behold, there was a hold in the countdown due to bad visibility at
> the Cape (NASA needed good visibility so film cameras photographing the
> launch would get a good view of the rocket if any trouble developed), and
> the liftoff was delayed until just before sunset.
>
> By the time the launch had actually taken place, there was no time tpo go
> back to show the rest of the Bruins' game on tape before 6 P.M.--
> local news time. I remember Walter Cronkite noting that there wouldn't be
> enough time to show the end of the game and gave the final score, and
noted
> "Don't Blame Us! Blame The Weather that Delayed the Launch".
>
> WBZ radio also cut to launch coverage after the first period of the game,
> but during the countdown hold, since the astronauts were not in danger,
> returned to the game. I think 'BZ had to dump out of the final minutes of
> the game because the countdown was about to continue. It's possible the
old
> WBZ-FM may have had the game in it's entirety.
>
> Joseph Gallant
> <notquite@hotmail.com
>
>
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