BayRidgeBrooklyn
11-14-2007, 09:37 AM
In his 2004 memior, "All in Good Time," radio personality and avid baseball fan, Jonathan Schwartz, described baseball radio broadcasts of New York in the 1950s:
"....the Giants on WMCA, the Yankees on WINS, the Dodgers on WMGM. On the last, Ted Husing, the well-known sportscaster, conducted a music show that was contractually called to the air at 5:00 pm. If the Dodger game ran late, it was banished to the FM side at precisely 5:00 pm and, in effect, disappeared."
(Many commercially successful AM stations owned FM stations as well. But the new FM market was small, and relatively few people owned FM radios or listened to that band in the '50s.)
Did any of you experience the Dodger radio broadcast being CUT-OFF at 5:00 pm? If true, it smacks of indifference. What kind of owner would thumb his nose at the fans by allowing such a thing?
Certainly, not the Honorable, (cough) future Hall-of-Famer, Walter O'Malley (gag, spit).
"....the Giants on WMCA, the Yankees on WINS, the Dodgers on WMGM. On the last, Ted Husing, the well-known sportscaster, conducted a music show that was contractually called to the air at 5:00 pm. If the Dodger game ran late, it was banished to the FM side at precisely 5:00 pm and, in effect, disappeared."
(Many commercially successful AM stations owned FM stations as well. But the new FM market was small, and relatively few people owned FM radios or listened to that band in the '50s.)
Did any of you experience the Dodger radio broadcast being CUT-OFF at 5:00 pm? If true, it smacks of indifference. What kind of owner would thumb his nose at the fans by allowing such a thing?
Certainly, not the Honorable, (cough) future Hall-of-Famer, Walter O'Malley (gag, spit).