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49ers Name Ted Robinson PBP Voice
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[/quote]If this is true then Fouts first radio pbp was 1955, not 1957 as I had believed; the 1956 49ers media guide lists Roy Storey "radio announcer" and Bob Fouts "tv announcer"; Fouts did do tv in 1955 and 1956, but only road games were televised, so possibly Storey did only the non-televised games in those years with Fouts doing the home games; in any event Storey did some, if not all, the pbp those years
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I talked to Roy Storey today and he remembers sharing the 1955 broadcasts with Fouts. He thinks he did all the 1956 games by himself. Stub, your assumption was right, just like Fouts and Storey shared, when Fouts was doing TV, Simmons was radio in 1958. When Fouts was radio, then Simmons did color.
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I talked to Roy Storey today and he remembers sharing the 1955 broadcasts with Fouts. He thinks he did all the 1956 games by himself. Stub, your assumption was right, just like Fouts and Storey shared, when Fouts was doing TV, Simmons was radio in 1958. When Fouts was radio, then Simmons did color.
stub said:
Lenhockey will undoubtedly correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we have a recording of a Niners radio broadcast where Fouts is doing play-by-play and Storey is doing a "hosting" thing -- giving scores of other games, noting that tickets are available for the next game, mentioning the sponsors ... and then tossing it back to Bob for play-by-play.
(Or was that Bud Foster and Roy Storey?)
that would have to have been in 1953 on KYA, right? and Roy Storey would have been only about 22 years old; so it appears we have straightened out the history as follows:lenhockey said:
1953 KYA Foster pbp Storey host
1954 KFRC Fred Hessler, Frankie Albert
1955 KFRC Roy Storey alone on tv games; Storey and Fouts share pbp radio games
1956 KFRC Roy Storey alone on all games
1957-58 KSFO Fouts pbp, Simmons color
agreed? or have I still missed something
Agreed!!! Now we have to forward this on to the Niners PR Department.
By the way I was just looking at a 9/4/49 Oakland Tribune ad for Niners against the Chicago Hornets that listed it's "local" affiliates as KXRX, KVON, KDON and KSBR-FM. Flagship was KSAN.
(In 1953, Roy would have been 26-27 yrs old)
By the way I was just looking at a 9/4/49 Oakland Tribune ad for Niners against the Chicago Hornets that listed it's "local" affiliates as KXRX, KVON, KDON and KSBR-FM. Flagship was KSAN.
(In 1953, Roy would have been 26-27 yrs old)
lenhockey said:
Thinks? I've seen the parchment scroll announcing your birth, Len...
And, while our director of research and I engage in witty repartee, may I mention that I found the radio listing for Sunday, Sept. 30, 1962 -- the Giants and the Houston Colt .45s (at Candlestick) were broadcast on 560/KSFO ... and the 49ers game with the Minnesota Vikings (at Kezar) was broadcast on KGO/810:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/schedules/schedule_trib_1962-09-30.png
For what it's worth: no TV broadcast of either game locally.
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Before we agree.....I remember reading a Chronicle story in the summer of 1955 naming Storey the "official voice of the 49ers", which suggests he might have been the sole pxp guy with Fouts hosting on the non-tv gameslenhockey said:
another piece of missing info; during the years 1959-1965 Russ Hodges did not join Simmons until baseball ended; Jim Lange worked the early season 1965 with Simmons, but I do not know for sure who was there in the 1959-1965 years
while we are at it, I might as well share what I found in SFPL and other sources about the earlier 49er radio broadcasts:stub said:
1946 KYA Bud Foster pbp possibly Bob Fouts host
no broadcast of Miami and Buffalo road games
Cleveland, NYYankees and Brooklyn road games broadcast...but possibly using the other team's broadcast....reason I suspect this is that on sep 22 WMCA in NY rather than send announcers to SF...used West Coast announcers Sam Balter pbp and Bob Fouts color; that I have confirmed from NYPL and a reliable source who listened to the game
1947 KYA Foster pbp Fouts host pre season and first 4 regular season on KLX 910 due to PCBL conflicts
1948 KYA Foster pbp Gerry Conley color Fouts host; first pre season game on KROW 960, next 4 games on KSFO, next four on KROW, and the rest of the season on KYA
1949 first preseason game on KYA recreated by Foster; remainder of the season on KSAN with Foster and Conlee
1950 KSAN first 3 pre season Tommy Greenhow, next preseason at Chi Jack Drees, remainder of pre season and regular season Rod (Belcher) Hughes
1951 KYA foster pbp fouts host; away pre season games recreated
1952 KYA all games except exhibitions against Fort Ord and San Jose semipro team; foster pbp and fouts host
Stub..thanks for the update..SFPL is a great resource with the SF NewsCall Bulletin morgue and their SF history collection. .. Fouts did join KYA after WW2, so he was on the staff and could have handled color to Foster's pbp...The SF bay area was lucky to have Foster, Fouts, Storey, Klein, Kieter along with the rest of the Associated Oil/Tidewater Oil stable of sports announcers. If anyone out there has recordings of early Bay Area sports please let us know. We would love to post them on the Museum website.
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