R.I.P Steve Fredericks

[Karen McTrotsky]

Sorry to be so late to respond, but thank you, Kevin, for reminding me that
Fredericks went back to WEEI when they started Sports Final. I do remember
Fredericks being at WMEX/WITS in the 77-78 time period, simultaneous with
Ordway, and the flip to WITS came in April or May of 78, so if he was back
in Philly by 1978 I surmise it was a brief tenure, but then they were both
CBS O & Os. But you know better than I.

I thought Fredricks did AM drive or middays at WMEX/WITS for a spell
("Welcome to our house"), either right before or right  after the brilliant
Joe Scallon move to install Bob Hudson in the morning. The Emperor, by the
way, is said to have insisted that the station hire Jim "Red" Hannon, track
announcer at Suffolk Downs, to do morning drive sports so he'd have the
inside line on the day's races at the East Boston Oval.

Sports Final, a sort of SportsCenter before cable networks, was Andelman's
idea.  He was a big fan of the Win Elliot Sports Central USA and Sports
World Roundup shows on the CBS net and openly talked about creating such a
nightly show on WEEI during Sports Huddle broadcasts.  He thought it would
be great for gamblers. I think Ted Sarandis was a host for a while.

Still hoping someone has a tape of the former Steven Oxman doing the
Havlicek Stole the Ball game from the Sixers perspective over One-to-One
Radio in Philadelphia, WCAU, Radio 121.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com>
To: Karen McTrotsky <karenmctrotsky@gmail.com>
Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:27:06 -0400
Subject: Re: R.I.P Steve Fredericks
Steve left WMEX/WITS and went back to WEEI when they started 'Sports Final'
at 10 PM but he was back in Philly for good by 1978.
He was replaced at WITS by Glenn Ordway.

He did Harvard football in 1975 on WMEX.