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WBVP Would Have Been In A Pickle This Sunday

hypwr said:
Parttimer said:
WYDD also carried the Jets games back in that era.
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Why did they do that?
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Don't know but the two possibilities I can think of were (1) Nelson Goldberg was a Jets fan, or (2) since the AFL was a separate league at that time, maybe this was an area they were trying to market with their NY franchise. Buffalo was the only other reasonably close team, the next nearest were Boston, Houston and Kansas City (Cincy and Miami were expansion teams later).
 
Parttimer said:
hypwr said:
Parttimer said:
WYDD also carried the Jets games back in that era.
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Why did they do that?
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Don't know but the two possibilities I can think of were (1) Nelson Goldberg was a Jets fan, or (2) since the AFL was a separate league at that time, maybe this was an area they were trying to market with their NY franchise. Buffalo was the only other reasonably close team, the next nearest were Boston, Houston and Kansas City (Cincy and Miami were expansion teams later).
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It could be that the Jets developed a following in the Beaver County area when native son Joe Willie became the Jets QB. There weren't things like Sports Center or NFL Game Ticket in those days, so if you wanted to see how Namath was doing, you'd listen to the local radio broadcasts (in much the same way that for years there would be South Florida stations carrying the Pirate games. Not sure if that's still the case.).
 
Boss- I don't think WMBA was owned by the same people who owned WBVP back in the 1960s, which was when they were referencing WBVP being part of the Jets' radio network. However, they did have an FM that evolved into what is currently The X that they could have used, and the article references that's what WBVP did when Jets and Steelers games (presumably announced by Joe Tucker) overlapped.

I can easily see why they would carry such programming. As the article states, with Namath being from Beaver Falls, there was an audience for the broadcasts.

I know the Indianapolis Colts radio network is/was carried by some stations in Tennessee where Peyton Manning is still king for his college exploits with the Volunteers.
 
Actually you have it half right.....

steelers were on WBVP FM ( which became kiss) which would later be stupidly sold off. and Jets were on 1230/WBVP.

The play by play guys for the jets at the time were merle harmon and sam deluca...and a young man named don criqui did the pregame.
 
That would explain why it's Criqui we hear with that famous call during the shot of Namath walking off the Orange Bowl field with his finger in the air- "There's the gun- and the Jets are the champions of the football world!"
 
What? WBVP and WMBA aren't owned by Forever/Keymarket.

Oh, not THAT kind of "Pickle". Heh.

Seriously, yeah, if the Jets contract had survived to 2011, they'd probably have been on WMBA with the Steelers on WBVP.
 
I will say that I had the chance to listen to some of their games when I was following Neil O'Donnell up there in the 1990s.

Ian Eagle was the PBP man and was, as you might gather from his presence on CBS TV now, excellent.

What I really liked, however, is that they would come back from commercials with a player leading back from the bumper. In other words, you'd hear "Hi, this is Mo Lewis, now back to Jets football on WFAN."

I thought it was a great way for players to get a greater identity and a novel way to prepare a listener's ear that the game would be back on. When one's attention is fading in and out, to hear that, coupled with Eagle then giving the time and score of the game, helped one keep track.
 
Bob Wischusen, who does a lot of college football on ESPN the rest of the week, is now the Jets radio voice and he's also very good.

I believe that Ian Eagle now does radio for the New Jersey Nyets.
 
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