Baseball radio in the Northeast

Paul Hopfgarten paul@derrynh.net
Tue Jul 12 10:52:48 EDT 2011


Was that in the WDLW country music days? (I thought 1330 was during the 99.1 
regime..)

-Paul H

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dan.Strassberg
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:31 AM
To: kvahey@gmail.com ; ssmyth@psualum.com ; bri
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

Do you mean 99.1 rather than 99.5? The Sox were on 99.1 and 1390 in
what? the '70s? And you've left out a few, such as 1330 (for night
games only) when the construction of the State St South office complex
in Quincy decimated 1510's already putrid night signal in the western
suburbs (both inside and outside of 128; 1330 helped mostly inside). I
also believe that, at one time, the Sox were on 107.9 for night games
when 107.9 was WWEL-FM and probably before the transmitter moved to
the Pru. If that's correct, 107.9 had much less than a full-market
signal; the HAAT from the top of the 1430 tower at 99 Rever Beach
Parkway must have been about 100'. Surprisingly, I don't think the Sox
were ever on 1150.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@gmail.com>
To: <ssmyth@psualum.com>; "bri" <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast


> Nothing in CT surprises me as Citi Field is easy to get to off 95 over the 
> Whitestone.
>
> I am wondering if NYY radio built the network when WMCA was the flagship 
> in the 70's.
>
> BTW how odd that the Red Sox have never used WBZ - they have over the 
> decades been on 1260, 850, 1510, 99.5 and 680.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Smyth <sean.smyth@yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:09:38
> To: bri<bri@bostonradio.org>; Kevin Vahey<kvahey@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: ssmyth@psualum.com
> Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast
>
> On Mon, 7/11/11, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Baseball radio in the Northeast
>> To: "bri" <bri@bostonradio.org>
>> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 8:32 PM
>> http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/07/10/two_nations_over_the_air/?p1=Features_link6
>>
>> Great story in yesterday's Globe comparing the Red Sox and
>> Yankees
>> radio network.
>>
>> What I find amazing is the Mets in their 50th year have no
>> network to
>> speak of - I think they have 2 stations around Albany and
>> that is it.
>
> I never understood that -- there are pockets of western Mass. with some 
> Mets fans, especially around Pittsfield, where they had their A-ball team 
> for a spell.
> 


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