WHDH Sports Talk Show circa 1986

Sean Smyth ssmyth@alumni.psu.edu
Tue Aug 2 23:35:20 EDT 2022


Somewhere on MP3 I have about 5-10 minutes of an Eddie Andelman show from
c. 1990-91. There’s nothing super noteworthy on there.

Eddie is in his 80s now, hard to believe. I hope he’s hanging in there.

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 8:15 PM Pjries <pjries@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 10:57 AM Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/1/2022 7:23 PM, Pjries wrote:
> > > It's been awhile since I sent any notes to this list and I don't know
> if
> > > the procedure remains the same.
> > >
> > > I worked at WHDH radio, in news, from 1984-1987.
> > >
> > > I recently came across a couple of airchecks I made of some of the
> > > programming other than my own newscasts, specifically, random
> recordings
> > of
> > > the Sports Talk show with Eddie Andelman.
> >
> > I don't think there is any one place where all the audio (or video) from
> > sports talk lives. It seems to be random at this point-- some clips are
> > posted to YouTube, some are posted on the person's own page, etc. But I
> > think there would definitely be interest in having an archive of sports
> > audio. In fact, I wonder if Eddie has any audio of his late 60s and
> > early 70s first iteration of the Sports Huddle.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Donna L. Halper, PhD
> > Associate Professor of Communication & Media Studies
> > Lesley University, Cambridge MA
> >
> >
> Thanks Donna,
>
> I agree. It would be great to have an archive of sports audio, and video,
> for that matter.
>
> In looking around, I've seen Eddie quoted as saying there are no archives,
> and Phil Sirkin, who I think was the first producer of the Sports Huddle,
> also tells me he doesn't know of any. (Phil, who was my editor at WHDH, is
> here in Indiana now, about 15 minutes away from me. Small world.)
>
> I don't have a lot of recordings. It was kind of a lark for me at the time
> and I wish I had more.
>
> Thanks,
> Pam
>
-- 
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