40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Kevin Vahey]

Also Putnam (WWLP) had a relationship with WSBK and whatever station had
the Red Sox as Channel 32 in Greenfield took any Boston game.

Even when 32 pulled the plug, Putnam put a LPTV on the air to carry the
games on cable

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> <<On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:13:02 -0400, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> said:
>
> > On 6/22/2012 11:56 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> >> We were talking TV
> >>
> >> Springfield was channel 22 - as was Burlington VT (also 22)
>
> > Why were the Red Sox on channel 22 in Springfield when Hartford's
> > Channel 3 reaches all the way up the Pioneer Valley?
>
> Probably for local advertising sales.  Springfield being a smaller
> market, local advertisers would not want to pay more for a signal that
> primarily serves a state they don't.
>
> -GAWollman
>