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...proposal comes in the wake of yesterday's announcement that the University has not renewed its contract with Boston radio station WBZ which has broadcast Crimson football games for the past three seasons...
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...
...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 pocketbooks sadly...
...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...
Yale: Boston radio station WNAC is scheduled to report this game in the local area. WCBS will broadcast the game in the New York area on its "Ivy Game of the Week" series. And WBZ-TV will show game pictures beginning at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday...