Baseball radio in the Northeast

[Jeff Lehmann]

I have tapes of the 1986 playoffs, with 99.1 WPLM as the flagship, but they were recorded off 680 WRKO (an affiliate).

Jeff Lehmann



On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:52 AM, "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net> wrote:

> 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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> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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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.