The media also had a field day when they found out that Foulke demanded a new truck as compensation for his weekly interviews with Dale & Holley on WEEI.
From 1946 through 1949, it also broadcast the Boston Braves, the city's National League baseball club (the Red Sox and Braves then only broadcast home games, thus the teams shared the same announcers and did not have schedule conflicts).
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With the move, WEEI retained Boston Celtics broadcasts, and also added BC basketball; it also ceded the final year of its Bruins contract to the new WBNW.
WEEI AM 850, a radio station in Boston that previously used the WHDH calls
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William "Bill" T. Harrington (born September 29, 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, died February 14, 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American sportscaster, children's television host, and news reporter for WHDH and TV and WCVB-TV in Boston.
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He worked as a news reporter and state house correspondent for WHDH radio, WHDH-TV and WCVB-TV during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
In 1999, the Boston Globes executive sports editor banned Globe sportswriters from appearing on WEEI's afternoon 'The Big Show' after Borges appeared on it and allegedly used a racial slur to describe New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu.