Re: NY Daily News - Bob Raissman - Bob Raissman's Tuning In: When YES took Zim off the air

["Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@tmail.com>]

Celtics more than made up for it when they "bought" WFXT from Murdoch 
and then sold it back to hom a few years later.

Sox and Bruins to best of my knowledge have never issued orders to 
producers and announcers to taint coverage. The only hard rule is never 
show the idiots running on the field but that is from MLB itself. I do 
know Harry Sinden and Dale Arnold have had some off air blowouts over 
comments Dale has made, but no censorship exists. The only reason Sean 
McDonough is not doing more games is cost as the Sox didn't want to pay 
Sean's rate of $5000 a game for 70 plus games which was his rate at 
WFXT.

Something else in NY to watch, Time Warner will now let basic users drop 
YES and get a $1 rebate on their bill. If Comcast does something similar 
the whole business model of NESN falls apart.


On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 2:38AM -0500, Sean Smyth wrote:
>
>>  And if this were to happen, it wouldn't be the
>>  first time a local sports team were to own a station.
>>  Didn't the Celtics own WEEI 590?
>
> Yeah, and they didn't do too hot with it.
>
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