R.I.P Steve Fredericks

[Kevin Vahey]

Steve was back at WMEX in October of 1975 as one of his former producers
flew down from Ottawa for Game 7 and Steve was doing afternoon talk. WMEX
had just gotten the radio contract from the Red Sox starting with the
post-season that year which to this day is one of the head scratchers in
Boston radio history.

Dick Richmond figured correctly that the Red Sox would drive up the selling
price and enter Joe Scallon and friends.

Steve told me that he had mixed feelings about going back to Philly but a
WCAU exec told him CBS planned to sell WEEI if another 50,000 watt property
opened up which indeed happened a few years later in Dallas.

He told me WRKO made him an offer to do talk in 1981 but he was happy in
Philly. WEEI also made him an offer when they went all sports which he
almost took as he was doing part time at WFAN after WCAU ceased to exist in
1990 with no warning.







On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Karen McTrotsky
<karenmctrotsky@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>