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In 1962, CBS dropped the Sunday baseball Game of the Week [88] once the NFL season started, dropping the option clause for affiliates to carry baseball or football in place since 1957. By 1964, [89] CBS' Dean and Reese called games from Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The New York Yankees got a $550,000 ...
On May 22, 1993, WIVB 4, CBS' affiliate in Buffalo, New York, bypassed CBS' Saturday afternoon baseball coverage for the second consecutive week. [251] According to a CBS spokesperson, the King World owned Channel 4 was the only affiliate in the country to drop baseball the previous Saturday and would be the only affiliate to skip May 22's game ...
Meanwhile, CBS Radio would pay Major League Baseball US$50 million for 1990–1993 radio rights to the Game of the Week and Sunday Night Baseball as well as the All-Star Game, League Championship Series, and World Series. Following the 1993 season, CBS Radio signed a six-year contract worth US$50.5 million. [4]
The week's events culminate with the return swim of the ponies to Assateague Island on Friday, July 26, with a time to be determined after the swim on Wednesday.
Major League Baseball games first aired on NBC from 1947 to 1989, including The NBC Game of the Week, when CBS acquired the broadcast television rights. [ 17 ] Games returned to NBC in 1994 as part of The Baseball Network , a time-brokered package of broadcasts produced by Major League Baseball and split with ABC .
The Pony Penning week returns in full glory after two years of COVID-enforced hiatus. The 97-year Chincoteague tradition includes the Pony Swim on Wednesday and the Pony Auction on Thursday, the ...
“The best part of baseball is when the guy least expected to get the big hit delivers at the end of the game. A memory that lasts a lifetime for the player and fans.
The first written description of the pony penning appeared in 1835, and by 1885, the event had become a festival day. The event consisted of two days of horse and sheep roundups on Assateague and Chincoteague Islands. Over time, the sheep population diminished and the pony population grew and eventually sheep penning was halted.