When Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent had to decide if and when to resume the World Series amid the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake, a lot of folks whispered: Well, what’s best for television? In the cynical, big-moneyed worlds of professional sports and network TV, it seemed a logical question.
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“Well, folks, that’s the greatest open in the history of television, bar none… We’re still here. We are still, as [far as] we can tell, on the air and I guess you are hearing us even though we have no picture and no return audio. And we will be back, we hope, from
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“Kill the ump!” they once shouted at baseball stadiums everywhere. “Kill the announcer!” they now shout in baseball living rooms everywhere. When it comes to broadcasting the national pastime’s postseason, there’s a lot of anger out there. Just ask Al Michaels, who begins another journey through the turbulent airwaves Saturday as ABC’s World Series
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Major League Baseball broadcast rights holders, meeting here yesterday to discuss the movement of games from free to cable TV, will seek the elimination of broadcasting restrictions on Wednesday and Sunday nights in ESPN’s four-year contract with baseball to begin in 1990. John Serrao, chairman of the board for the Association
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Baseball’s storied “Game of the Week” is dead after Saturday. It will not be missed. Baseball’s “Game of the Night” begins in 1990 on ESPN. It will be a can’t-miss hit. For the past 33 years, the “Game of the Week” has been a Saturday afternoon fixture on network
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He reported that running back Joe Cribbs would return to the Buffalo Bills. Cribbs denied it. He reported that the FBI was investigating the major league umpires union’s handling of its money. The umpires denied it. He reported that the Sullivan family was interested in selling the New England
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Bob Wolff, Washington’s pioneer television sportscaster, witnessed and reported all of that bad baseball. As a permanent scar of sorts, he remembers most of it. “I would never say, ‘Well, the Senators are leading, 12-1. It looks like a good day for them,’ because there were still two more innings to
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