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Joe Castiglione To Retire

Some speculate of the Sox taking their broadcast in-house... @bostonradio predicted simply an audio simulcast of NESN
and we'll see what does happen, soon enough.
2018: huge Sox fan Stephen King angered when Sox wouldn't offer a renewal of rights to his WZON, instead going to the more powerful Ticket 92.9

Noting a list of radio affiliates I saw none in the Burlington VT area.
Every year Joe C reads the words of former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti.
"It breaks your heart..and leaves you to face the fall alone...when you need it most, it stops."

Giamatti: The Green Fields of the Mind

Joan Daugherty's personal home page.
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raccoonradio said:
Some speculate of the Sox taking their broadcast in-house... @bostonradio predicted simply an audio simulcast of NESN
and we'll see what does happen, soon enough.
2018: huge Sox fan Stephen King angered when Sox wouldn't offer a renewal of rights to his WZON, instead going to the more powerful Ticket 92.9

Noting a list of radio affiliates I saw none in the Burlington VT area.
Every year Joe C reads the words of former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti.
"It breaks your heart..and leaves you to face the fall alone...when you need it most, it stops."

Giamatti: The Green Fields of the Mind

Joan Daugherty's personal home page.
mason.gmu.edu
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WEAV, bro. A Plattsburgh COL is not an exclusion of Burlington.
 
Simulcasting NESN audio would necessitate a big change in the way the games are broadcast. NESN often has guest celebrities, representatives of charities, players' wives and team executives in the booth and the announcers usually just let the on-field action speak for itself while they fawn over their guests. They'll have to start doing pitch-by-pitch descriptions to make such a simulcast work.

But, as freqlost points out, the radio deal with WEEI runs through the 2028 season. No need to speculate on simulcasting now.
 
Ch 4 or Ch 5 years ago?
Various articles I saw said deal was till 27 or so but a previous deal may have given the Sox an out clause if they decided to do so, however deal may well have been extended...

Red Sox radio network page didn't list WEAV under either NY or VT (Burlington market).
Checking...
Ok I see now an MLB page does list WEAV
as does Audacy page. Wikipedia page does not list them. The map on that shows Platt as a spot but mentions no station

@bostonradio tweet was:"Pizuttis* are taking radio rights in-house next season. I think they’ll just simulcast NESN on an audio stream and have no terrestrial radio flagship."
* John Henry et al

Agreed about tv visual stuff being lost on the radio though in some cities TV newscasts are simulcast on radio.
"If you're in the light blue area it'll be snow; those in green area get rain"
 
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raccoonradio said:
Ch 4 or Ch 5 years ago?
Various articles I saw said deal was till 27 or so but a previous deal may have given the Sox an out clause if they decided to do so, however deal may well have been extended...

Red Sox radio network page didn't list WEAV under either NY or VT (Burlington market).
Checking...
Ok I see now an MLB page does list WEAV
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Unfortunately, I'm on the other side of Vermont from Burlington. Otherwise I'd check WEAV's OTA signal and see if they're on the Sox network. Perhaps someone can inquire in the Northern New England forum, or even call the station.
 
It could mean Sox would produce the play by play and get WEEI or whomever to be an affiliate, unless contract says Aud. must produce/syndicate.
The MLB page says WEAV 101.3; I knew of WEAV as 960 AM and the Sox had been on 101.3 as part of "WCPV Champ 101.3"
Wiki lists WEAV as 960 with translators in Plattsburgh NY and Colchester VT (the later is also home to WVMT and WXXX-FM)

I think the sports/Sox wound up on 960 and the translators while 101.3 is country as The Wolf
 
raccoonradio said:
It could mean Sox would produce the play by play and get WEEI or whomever to be an affiliate, unless contract says Aud. must produce/syndicate.
The MLB page says WEAV 101.3; I knew of WEAV as 960 AM and the Sox had been on 101.3 as part of "WCPV Champ 101.3"
Wiki lists WEAV as 960 with translators in Plattsburgh NY and Colchester VT (the later is also home to WVMT and WXXX-FM)

I think the sports/Sox wound up on 960 and the translators while 101.3 is country as The Wolf
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Champ has been gone (and never carried sports) for more than a decade. That was flipped to ESPN (with Red Sox and Pats and UVM hoops, et al), then to Fox Sports. That got moved to the AM with translators for the Wolf a couple of years ago.
 
Right; been awhile since been up there. Indeed by 2011 they were ESPN 101.3 then the Game and picked up minor league VT Lake Monsters; also Patriots, Bruins, Red Sox then dropped sports in '21
 
Did the Yankees ever have Vermont affiliates on their radio network other than WIRY in Plattsburgh, on the other side of the lake?
 
WVMT 630 ran them while Sox were on WJOY 1230. Expos were on 1240 WSKI I believe.
Also I did a search online and saw an old ad for Yankees on "14(sic)/WDOT [i.e., 1390]
 
My father is blind, so growing up in southern Rhode Island, we'd often have the TV on muted and the radio on for play-by-play for Red Sox games. The games came in loud and clear on 101.9 WCIB/Falmouth. Initially it was Lite 102 but eventually became "Cool 102." The radio audio was usually about 2-3 seconds ahead of the visual on NESN, so I usually heard the plays called a moment before actually seeing it. Joe Castiglione is a great play-by-play voice -- he will be missed!
 
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