Baseball radio in the Northeast

[Kevin Vahey]

They moved to Ch 25 (SOX on FOX) after the fiasco with 56.

A former CBS exec bought the rights and then bought time on WLVI and the Sox wound up not seeing a dime for the season. 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:34:20 
To: <kvahey@gmail.com>; Martin Waters<martinjwaters@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

Didn't the Sox also have a short stint on FOX25 WFXT (SOX on FOX)? (And the 
WLVI deal was not the direct broadcaster IIRC)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Kevin Vahey
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:23 AM
To: Paul Hopfgarten ; Martin Waters
Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

Campbell owned WPLM and also wound up with the Bruins. For Bruins coverage 
in Boston he used 1330 as a backup.

The Soxm then blundered with TV in the 90's leaving WSBK for WABU and then 
WLVI before just keeping things in house with NESN.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@derrynh.net>
Sender: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.orgDate: Wed, 13 
Jul 2011 07:04:56
To: Martin Waters<martinjwaters@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Paul Hopfgarten <paul@derrynh.net>
Cc: <bri@bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

I’d say YES, it was dysfunctional until the John Henry group took over. 
Baseball is first and foremost a business (if you want to own a team) and it 
has to be approached as such. I think IIRC that “Campbell Communications” 
had won the right to the Sox (not even a station per se?) and subbed out to 
WPLM, though I could be wrong and maybe Campbell OWNED WPLM at the time...

It was a pretty stupid move, none the less...

-Paul Hopfgarten
Concord NH

From: Martin Waters
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:36 AM
To: paul@derrynh.net
Cc: bri@bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: Baseball radio in the Northeast

      --- On Tue, 7/12/11, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
      Not to be picky, but it was 99.1 WPLM (I don't believe the Sox ever 
flagged
      OR even broadcast on 99.5....though they did do night games only on 
107.9
      WWEL in 1978, guess Disco and Sox didn't mix, so they did not continue 
when
      WXKS (KISS) started in 1979...)  . . .

          OK,so I was already in Nutmeg Land -- listening to the Red Sox 
year after year on WTIC (AM),which has carried the games since at least the 
1950's --and missed out on all this goofball business with the RedSox 
looking like they subcontrACTED putting their games on a really bad signal, 
then switching to a worse signla, then selecting as their "flagship"station 
an FM not even really in themarket, etc., What the heck was that all about, 
anyhow? Just another aspect of the increasignly dysfunctional ownership?