RE: Bob Ryan on WEEI...on Sox game

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

Re Globe/NESN...

The Globe does do the PRE game show, but "Extra Innings" (Excuse me
W.B.Mason's "Extra Innings") AFAIK is run by NESN itself.

(Darn that Office Girl...if it wasn't for her, we would have won all those
Championships instead of the hated Yankees! <G>)

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041
paul@03038.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Bob
> Nelson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:57 PM
> To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Bob Ryan on WEEI...on Sox game
>
>
> I just put on the Red Sox pre-game show on WEEI and
> during the Inside Pitch segment they were talking to
> Bob Ryan of the Globe. I thought, wait a minute--
> didn't El Globo ban all Globe employees from being on
> WEEI, or vice versa?
>
> Then I figured, well, the Red Sox game is probably an
> exception--and since the parent company of the Globe,
> the NY Times, is part owner of the Sox, maybe the Sox
> kinda convinced 'EEI to let them put their reporter on
> the Red Sox Radio Network.
>
> So, Ryan can be on 'EEI I guess, as long as it's on a
> Sox game. I was thinking about that on July 4 as I
> drove around the Burlington, VT area; the Sox were
> on WJOY 1230 and the Yanks, whom they were playing,
> were on WVMT 620. I put on the Yanks network for a
> moment and heard them interviewing Bob Ryan and I
> thought, "well, you won't hear a Globe reporter on the
> Sox network because of WEEI".
>
> But now you can. (And I just put on my TV and they
> were talking to Bob Ryan as well, on Sox-owned NESN.
> His "mike flag" said The Boston Globe, not
> NESN. I think the Globe is actually in charge of doing
> the pre- and post-game programming on NESN...