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Bruce Glasier retiring from WCSH

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The longtime sportscaster at Gannett's ratings colossus will step down for good in April. The linked feature on this weekend's "Bill Green's Maine" is decidedly bittersweet; it documents, perhaps unwittingly, the rise and fall of WCSH's sports coverage over the years. These days the flagship 6PM weekday newscast occasionally has no sports segment at all - not even a perfunctory reading of scores by the news anchors - something that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The era of "Video Sports' and "Sports Overtime" has become a distant memory, and in a few weeks, so will Glasier.

http://www.wcsh6.com/life/programmi...een-talks-with-Bruce-Glasier-about-his-career
 
Watching that video package was fun! I still vividly remember Sports Overtime like it was yesterday! I lived in Old Orchard Beach from 1985 to 1987 and watched it every week. He mentioned that he's been at WCSH-TV for 35 years! Wow! My favorite picture, which they showed, was when he met Muhammad Ali. It may have been when Ali appeared there sometime in the 1990s. I know he had a bout against Sonny Liston once in Lewiston. As for WCSH-TV now, I can't see Bill Green being there too much longer, either.
 
Bill Green just celebrated his 40th anniversary with WLBZ/WCSH, and there are fewer new episodes of "Bill Green's Maine" being produced (probably realistic given the increasing marginalization of Saturday prime access.) Still, I think he'll stay there as long as he wants to be around.
 
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