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Commercial broadcasts of Harvard football games may have ended permanently this fall, a Boston radio executive said yesterday. Grady Edney, manager of station WBZ, blamed the Stadium blackout on the Athletic Department's "unrealistic idea of what football broadcasts are worth...
Tonight's meeting will probably be WHRB's last attempt this year to gain approval of their broadcast request--a request it has submitted for the past three years. In the past, WHRB was turned down down because the University had already signed a contract with local station WBZ...
...most important question is the effect of television on local radio broadcasts. The arrival of CBS was accompanied by the departure of WBZ. The reasons given were disagreement about fees and dissatisfaction with the low quality of coverage. There seems to be reason to believe that with television covering one game directly and reproducing possibly four others. WBZ felt its contract was less than exclusive...
Every year their request has been refused on the grounds that WBZ had an exclusive contract. This year, WBZ has no contact. The games will be broadcast only from New York, useful for the HAA in maintaining alumni interest, but not to local enthusiasts, who must now buy tickets...
...this fall will have little effect on the amount of noise emanating from the Stadium. The overwhelming majority of College students, as the Athletic Department must know, do attend football games. They did several years ago when they had to pay for their tickets; they did last year when WBZ broadcasted the games; and they will this year regardless of the Saturday afternoon programming on WHRB...