Early Red Sox and Braves TV history

[Kevin Vahey]

Irony of Westinghouse and FM is they never had a clue what to do with
it (at least in Boston)

106.7 as WBZ-FM tried a little bit of everything but it was a complete
afterhought by management.

They finally unloaded it to Greater Media for short money and GM
struck gold with WMJX

On 7/29/08, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
> At 12:06 PM 7/29/2008, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>>Donna I take it he used the space at 70 Brookline Av later used by
>>WMEX and then NESN? ( and for a brief time the last days of WITS )
>>
>>Donna was there a reason Boston was so late getting TV compared to the
>>other major markets? Most major cities had at least one station by
>>1947 but Boston had to wait until 1948.
>
> First, yes Hollis and friends used 70 Brookline Ave, although they
> also had another location briefly on Comm Ave.  In 1938, they claimed
> ("they" meaning the guys in charge of Shortwavve & Television,
> including Baird and part-owner A.M. "Vic" Morgan) to have put the
> first "television theater" on the air.
>
> Second, my sense is that Westinghouse was really focused on
> developing FM and was slow to realise that TV was what mattered most
> to the average person.
>
>