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Baseball LCS games airing locally

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chris12

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I was looking at some old tv guides recently and found out that in 1983 WFLD 32 aired a local broadcast of the ALCS game between the White Sox and Orioles in addition to the NBC telecast. I never knew that teams were once allowed to air the playoff games locally. Does anyone know how long this was allowed? I thought I also raed about there being a controversy with TBS wanting to air the Braves NLCS games in 1982.
 
chris12 said:
I was looking at some old tv guides recently and found out that in 1983 WFLD 32 aired a local broadcast of the ALCS game between the White Sox and Orioles in addition to the NBC telecast. I never knew that teams were once allowed to air the playoff games locally. Does anyone know how long this was allowed? I thought I also raed about there being a controversy with TBS wanting to air the Braves NLCS games in 1982.
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Apparently this took place between 1969 (when the playoffs were expanded) and the mid 80s.

Here's the first few minutes of that telecast (no game action):
http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/screen.php?c=611&m=White%20Sox&p=1
 
Back in the 40s, Bill Veeck raised a stink when his Indians made the series and the regular-season announcers were left off the coverage (radio-only in those days). He threatened to put the network crew in the football press box and their crew behind the outfield fence if the local station wasn't at least allowed to carry the network coverage, and in the future, the local station allowed to carry the games. By the 70s, it was changed to local broadcasters being used on the network TV, and the local outlet during the regular season getting to carry the network show as well. That was for the World Series; for the LCS, the local teams could do their own broadcasts. That changed in the 80s because of the growth of cable and superstations, in large part because the Braves and Cubs were strong at the time.
 
World Series coverage used to feature one of the announcers from each of the participating teams. This meant: Mel Allen from the Yankees, Vin Scully of the Dodgers, Harry Caray from the Cardinals, Chuck Thompson of the Orioles, Al Michaels from the Reds, etc. Later on, that team announcer was on TV for the home games and on radio for the away games with the other team's announcer switching as well. When this was done, the originating network had one of their announcers paired with them. From NBC was Curt Gowdy on TV and Jim Simpson on radio.
 
Speaking of baseball playoffs, what about the infamous Bucky Dent game of October 1978? (With Bill White's "Deep to left..." call!) The clip clearly sounds like it came from WPIX-TV channel 11 in New York, which was the Yankees flagship for many years. If I'm not mistaken, the game aired nationally on ABC. I was 7 at the time and don't remember it too well.
 
That Yankees-Red Sox play-off game that Monday afternoon was telecast nationwide on ABC-TV. Keith Jackson did the play-by-play. It was also on the ABC Radio Network that day. I can't remember who the announcers were for that although I both saw and heard the game from those sources. The video clip that is shown now is the one by Bill White on Yankees TV.
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
That Yankees-Red Sox play-off game that Monday afternoon was telecast nationwide on ABC-TV. Keith Jackson did the play-by-play. It was also on the ABC Radio Network that day. I can't remember who the announcers were for that although I both saw and heard the game from those sources. The video clip that is shown now is the one by Bill White on Yankees TV.
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I missed that game and although I was and am a Phillies fan, living in the Philly area at the time, I wish I hadn't. :( I was in school. I was in 12th grade and after school that day went bowling (I was in the school intramural bowling league). When my mom picked me up I found out who won.

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KML-224 said:
Speaking of baseball playoffs, what about the infamous Bucky Dent game of October 1978? (With Bill White's "Deep to left..." call!) The clip clearly sounds like it came from WPIX-TV channel 11 in New York, which was the Yankees flagship for many years. If I'm not mistaken, the game aired nationally on ABC. I was 7 at the time and don't remember it too well.
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That may have been the Yankees radio PxP synchronized to the ABC video.

When NBC had the exclusive TV rights the teams' flagships could simulcast. WOR-TV did that for the Mets' postseason appearances in 1969 and 1973.

Since 1976 local teams' flagships cannot simulcast. In fact, NBC aired Game 5 of the Yankees-Dodgers World Series in '78 while WPIX-11 aired a Jets game (with an NBC crew and announcers) at the same time.
 
Showing the taped video of a sports event while using taped audio from another source seems to be done quite a bit. For example, you might see the taped video of Kurt Gibson's homerun in Game One of the 1988 World Series with the audio call of it from Jack Buck on CBS Radio being used. There are other examples.
 
Not sure about the LCS, but during the World Series in the mid-70's, the home team pbp guy would be part of the national broadcast team, and would actually call a couple of innings. Then-Red Sox pbp man Dick Stockton can clearly be heard on the NBC clips of the '75 ws.
 
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