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METS on the old WOR-TV, Kiners Korner

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Rememeber when ch. 9 WOR-TV would air the Mets back in the '60s & '70s? How many games would they broadcast in the late '60s? Was it around 100 or 120? I remember the Mets & a beer sponsor would take out a full page ad in the newspapers once a year to list the Mets TV sked.

Is there a place on the Web that has old tapes of Mets games from the late '60s & early '70s? Any old Kiners Korner available?

Any folks remember Tom & Nancy Seaver doing a TV spot for RC COLA? I believe it was shot at Shea Stadium. Or the late Gil Hodges doing a TV spot for his board game Pennant Fever?
 
When cable first came to my hometown in 1983, WOR/WWOR-9 was on the local cable system, and at that time, they broadcast about 100 to 110 Mets' regular-season games a year, plus five or six pre-season games from Florida.

I'm pretty sure the original (?) broadcast team of Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy were still doing the Mets' games on TV in the mid-1980's.
 
> When cable first came to my hometown in 1983, WOR/WWOR-9 was
> on the local cable system, and at that time, they broadcast
> about 100 to 110 Mets' regular-season games a year, plus
> five or six pre-season games from Florida.
>
> I'm pretty sure the original (?) broadcast team of Lindsay
> Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy were still doing the
> Mets' games on TV in the mid-1980's.


Lindsey Nelson left in '78 replaced by Steve Albert...
 
> > When cable first came to my hometown in 1983, WOR/WWOR-9
> was
> > on the local cable system, and at that time, they
> broadcast
> > about 100 to 110 Mets' regular-season games a year, plus
> > five or six pre-season games from Florida.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the original (?) broadcast team of Lindsay
>
> > Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy were still doing the
> > Mets' games on TV in the mid-1980's.
>
>
> Lindsey Nelson left in '78 replaced by Steve Albert...
>

By the early 80's, Nelson was doing the Giants games on KTVU. When did Gary Thorne and Tim McCarver join the WWOR broadcasts?
 
> By the early 80's, Nelson was doing the Giants games on
> KTVU. When did Gary Thorne and Tim McCarver join the WWOR
> broadcasts?
>
If I remember correctly, McCarver joined the Mets TV team in 1983, while Thorne joined the Mets in 1985, first as a radio voice for four years, left to do White Sox TV games on their last year on Fox's WFLD in 1989, then came back to the Mets as one of their many TV voices in 1994.
 
> Rememeber when ch. 9 WOR-TV would air the Mets back in the
> '60s & '70s? How many games would they broadcast in the
> late '60s? Was it around 100 or 120? I remember the Mets &
> a beer sponsor would take out a full page ad in the
> newspapers once a year to list the Mets TV sked.
>
> Is there a place on the Web that has old tapes of Mets games
> from the late '60s & early '70s? Any old Kiners Korner
> available?
>
> Any folks remember Tom & Nancy Seaver doing a TV spot for RC
> COLA? I believe it was shot at Shea Stadium. Or the late
> Gil Hodges doing a TV spot for his board game Pennant Fever?
>

Channel 9 showed 117 regular season and three Grapefruit League games each year in the pre-cable era.<P ID="signature">______________
Stu Dolgon</P>
 
> > I'm pretty sure the original (?) broadcast team of Lindsay
> > Nelson, Ralph Kiner, and Bob Murphy were still doing the
> > Mets' games on TV in the mid-1980's.
>
>
> Lindsey Nelson left in '78 replaced by Steve Albert...

And "Murph" went over to do radio exclusively in '82. He was replaced by Lorne Brown, who lasted just one season. Tim McCarver and Steve Zabriskie joined Ralph Kiner on the WOR telecasts beginning in 83. Zabriskie left after the 88 season (?) and was not replaced on a full time basis as the schedule had been trimmed to 50 games in the 90's.
 
Slightly off topic, but I also barely remember old Knicks broadcasts on WOR/WWOR-9, and in the late 80's and early 90's, I believe, Nets games as well. Anyone remember Steampipe Alley? ;)
 
wow...have read steve z's name in a long time.......i remember him from his sting as sportscaster at WTAE TV in p burgh....any idea where he is now ?????Re: Kiner/WOR.....those were great times...between WOR and APIX you couls see just about every yankees and mets game on TV....and the mets has roy campanella as part oftheir TV pre game team as i remember.....
 
The only thing I have on tape involving the Mets is a few minutes of audio from when then-WNTY-AM 990 (now WXCT-AM) of Southington, CT used to carry the Mets games. It's a clip of the first pitch at Montreal in 1988. It sounds like Cohen and Thorne and there's even a legal ID on it, too ("WNTY-AM 990 Southington/Bristol/Meriden").
 
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