Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indeed, there is only one major group to whom radio broadcasts are of importance if there is television coverage--the student. Many students would rather be warm and comfortable in their rooms with a date, than cold and uncomfortable in a cheering section. To accommodate them, WHRB has annually requested permission to broadcast the game...
This is the third year that the station has petitioned the department for permission to broadcast football games. Each time they have been turned down on the grounds that coverage by a local station would violate an exclusive rights clause in Harvard's contract with WBZ. Negotiations this year began in April...
Officials of the Harvard Athletic Department, having rejected all bids for the right to broadcast home football games this fall, now find themselves in an embarrassing position. For the past several years WHRB, the University's undergraduate radio station, has been asking pelmission to carry these games on its own wires. The H.A.A.'s answer has always been no, because--as the argument ran--any arrangement with WHRB would violate the University's "exclusive" home game contract with WBZ of Boston. And a football contract is worth more money if it is truly "exclusive," said the H.A.A. men, shaking their...
...certain that neither WBZ nor any other local station will broadcast the Crimson's games this fall. With no "exclusive" contract involved, the Athletic Department has thus lost its financial argument against WHRB, and is basing its stand this time on what it considers a moral proposition. College students are given free tickets for home football games, the Boylston St. officials contend, and therefore they are obligated to see the games. Undergraduates should not stay in their rooms and listen on Saturday afternoons; they should go down to the Stadium and cheer...
...matter will probably be made next Monday when the Faculty Committee on Athletics holds its monthly meeting. We hope the Committee will recognize that Harvard undergraduates have a right not to attend football games if they don't want to, and that WHRB has a right to broadcast these games to the College...