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WSBK-TV
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televised Friday night games in the
Boston
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area
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WBZ-TV
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televised the 4th of July game; these games were seen on
NESN
New England Sports Network, popularly known as NESN , is an American regional sports network, regional sports cable television, cable and satellite television, satellite television network owned by a joint venture of Fenway Sports Group (which ow ...
Gary Thorne
Gary F. Thorne (born June 9, 1948) is an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for Baltimore Orioles games on MASN from 2007 to 2020. He has also worked for ESPN and ABC, including National Hockey League, Major League ...
Gil Santos
Gilbert A. Santos (April 19, 1938 – April 19, 2018) was an American radio play-by-play announcer based in the Boston area. He called games for the New England Patriots of the National Football League and the Boston Celtics of the National Baske ...
(1992)
*
John Rooke
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Don Orsillo
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Jon Rish
Jon Rish (born 1973) is an American former radio personality, best known for his work in the Boston area.
Career
Rish was a radio host for WEEI-FM in Boston.
Rish attended Boston College and began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the schoo ...
(2010, 2014)
*
Eric Frede
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Tom Caron
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Background
Caron is a graduate of Lewiston High School in Maine and Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he majored in journalism.
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(2016-present)
*
Alex Faust
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(2019)
*
Will Flemming
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(2019)
*
Mike Monaco
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(2019–present)
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Jerry Remy
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(1992-1995)
*
Dennis Eckersley
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Buck Martinez
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(2009)
*
Tony Massarotti
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(2009)
*
Rance Mulliniks
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(2009)
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Rex Hudler
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(2009)
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Ron Coomer
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(2009)
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Ken Rosenthal
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Jim Kaat
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(2009)
*
Gordon Edes
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Frank Viola
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(2009)
*
Sean McAdam Sean McAdam may refer to:
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Rick Dempsey
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Roy Smalley III
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Nick Cafardo
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(2012–2013)
*
Peter Gammons
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(2012–2013)
*
Jim Rice
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Jon Rish
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Career
Rish was a radio host for WEEI-FM in Boston.
Rish attended Boston College and began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the schoo ...
Jonny Gomes
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(2017–2018)
*
Mike Timlin
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(2017)
*
Wade Boggs
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(2017)
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Jarrod Saltalamacchia
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(2017)
*
Lenny DiNardo
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(2017)
*
Todd Walker
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(2017, 2019)
*
John Valentin
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(2017)
*
Carlos Peña
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(2017)
*
Ellis Burks
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Lenny DiNardo
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(2021)
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Kathryn Tappen
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(2006-2011)
*
Jade McCarthy
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(2010-2011)
*
Tony Lee
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Jamie Erdahl
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Tom Caron
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Background
Caron is a graduate of Lewiston High School in Maine and Saint Michael's College in Vermont, where he majored in journalism.
After graduat ...
(2017;2019)
Studio Host
*
Butch Stearns
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(1997-1998)
*
Kathryn Tappen
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(2006-2011)
*
Adam Pellerin
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Tony Massarotti
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(2009)
*
Gordon Edes
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(2009)
*
Nick Cafardo
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(2009–2018)
*
Ken Ryan
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(2009)
*
Lenny DiNardo
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(2017–present)
*
Jonny Gomes
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(2017–present)
*
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
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(2017)
*
Todd Walker
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(2017)
*
John Valentin
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(2017)
*
Manny Delcarmen
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Jerry Remy
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took a leave of absence after his son,
Jared Remy
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, was arrested for murder.
*Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy was off the air indefinitely during the 2009 season while he recovered from complications of cancer. NESN used guest analysts in his absence.
Dennis Eckersley
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. Tom Caron replaced Rodgers as studio host.
* From 1990 to 2004, Sean McDonough missed Red Sox games while covering events for
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and
ESPN
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, making it necessary for the channel he was working for to hire a second announcer to serve as a fill-in.Boston.com Local Search - Boston Globe Archives /ref> For games when Bob Montgomery served as the play by play announcer, NESN analyst Jerry Remy would serve as color commentator.
* Dave O'Brien misses Red Sox games due to his work on
ESPN
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.
* Dave Martin joined the Red Sox radio broadcast crew in June 1972 when John MacLean left due to illness
* In 1970, announcers
Ken Coleman
Kenneth Robert Coleman (April 22, 1925 – August 21, 2003) was an American radio and television sportscaster for more than four decades (1947–1989).
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Coleman was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1925, the son of William (a salesma ...
,
Ned Martin
Edwin Martin III (August 9, 1923 – July 23, 2002) was an American sportscaster, known primarily as a play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox from 1961 to 1992.
Broadcasting career
Martin was born in Wayne, Pennsylvani ...
, and
Johnny Pesky
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refused to cross the picket line of
WHDH-TV
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's electrical workers. During the strike, Leo Egan called games on television and Spike Brown handled the radio broadcasts.
* Don Gillis filled in most for most of the 1957 season while Curt Gowdy was out with a bad back.
* The only game broadcast in 1926 was opening day
* Bill Kulik was only a part-time broadcaster
* Juan Oscar Baez joined Spanish radio crew in June after J.P. Villaman's death
* On July 25, 2008, WTTT swapped call signs with sister station WWDJ in
* Jon Rish resigned during the 2013 season. He was replaced by Sean Grande and Lou Merloni
References
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Boston Red Sox
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