WBTS and WHDH

[Tim Ripley]

There's a long tradition of Atlantic Canadian fans of Boston teams, mainly the Bruins and Sox, and to a lesser extent Pats... 

    On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 4:33 AM, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> wrote:
 

 WSBK became a mini-superstation in 1978 when a Syracuse based company
(Eastern Microwave) started to relay the signal. Red Sox games being beamed
into Manhattan was a major selling point for the then Paragon Cable. WSBK
also got picked up in Canada because of hockey and is still available on
most systems there today.



On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:26 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:

> Channel 38 was widely carried on cable systems long before it was co-owned
> by WBZ and long before WBZ was owned by CBS.
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> On 1/3/2017 10:55 AM, Bob DeMattia wrote:
>
>> ​This could be CBS saying if you want to carry WBZ you have to carry 38
>> also,
>> or pricing such that carrying 38 is a better option than just BZ by
>> itself.
>>
>> -Bob
>> ​
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Sean Smyth <ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> One of the main reasons Channel 38 became so widely carried was the Bruins
>>> and Red Sox, and later the Celtics. It's been years since any of those
>>> teams had a local broadcast TV package.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:24 PM Doug Drown <ashboy1951@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It has occurred to me that there may be a silver lining for WHDH amidst
>>>>
>>> all
>>>
>>>> this kerfuffle over the affiliation loss.  What if WHDH were to give
>>>>
>>>> Comcast and NECN some significant competition outside Boston?  According
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> what I've been reading, the station plans to significantly beef up its
>>>>
>>> news
>>>
>>>> operation; what if it were to become a "superstation" comparable to WSBK
>>>>
>>>> and WGN, offering Boston and New England news to the rest of the region
>>>>
>>>> (and Canada) via Time Warner and other non-Comcast-owned cable
>>>> companies,
>>>>
>>>> as well as via satellite?  DISH and DIRECTV don't carry NECN; it's a
>>>>
>>>> cable-only operation.  I think this could be a great opportunity for
>>>>
>>> WHDH,
>>>
>>>> if it could be worked out.
>>>>
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>>>
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