Are you old enough to remember WGN carrying Notre Dame games?
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Not sure. It seemed liked we have 14 channels at that time, and somewhere around 86 we got the extended cable with CNN, TBS, MTV, etc.......
Many years ago WGN was a local radio network owned by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. WGN stands for the Word's Greatest Newpaper.
Did not know, thanks. A couple months ago I felt like watching the Chicago news, and WGN doesnt even do the news anymore. At least not consistently. It was strange. They have it on different days, really early in the morning. Like 3 or 4am. They use to do morning, lunch, and evening. Not anymore. I find that strange that its not on a consistent schedule. They also use to do Illinois St games, occasionally. Or some team down state. I remember watching Iowa lose to Illinios St or Bradley in a holiday tourney where we were suppose to play Oklahoma. Back in those days, OU has destorying teams and scoring in the 100s every night.
Basketball seems so much different back then, well, naturally cause it was. Now, we can get whatever game we want, whenever we want. Back then I would watch whatever game was on TV, because there were only a handful of games on. And it seemed like ND played alot of Sat night games.
And watching WGN, they would pump up DePaul and Joey Meyer so much, they would have you thinking they were a national contender every year. Which they were a hell of alot better back then.
There was a time years ago, before TV, when doubleheader college bb games were played on Saturday nights at the old Chicago stadium. Usually DePaul would play one of the games one Saturday and Loyola the next Saturday. ND wae featured many times in one of the two games.
The Chicgo Blachhawks also played at the stadium so the bb floor was installed on top of the ice
The Chicgo Blachhawks also played at the stadium so the bb floor was installed on top of the ice
I grew up watching the Big5 games on Ch 17...Philadelphia... from the Palestra...Al Meltzer announcing...no more, shame.
I remember epic battles between Digger and Ray Meyer's DePaul teams. I leave not far from Dayton Ohio and remember ND playing the UD Flyers and going with my Dad to those games.
That is cool.
I just read a piece of sports triva that was about DePaul. They were a #1 seed in the NCAA for 3 straight years, and lost in the 2 round all 3 of those years.
I wonder if DePaul will have success like that again. They cant even get in the tourney now a days.
Geez, I see why WGN was hyping them now. They had a helk of a run back in the late 70s and early 80s. I guess I was just more familar with BIG 10 teams, and never remember DePaul winning alot in March, during my youth. I was alittle before those great Meyer teams. I remember his son more than him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_Blue_Demons_men%27s_basketball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_Blue_Demons_men%27s_basketball
Here's another blast from the past.
Butch Lee almost single-handedly beat the US for Puerto Rico in the '76 games.
In one ND hoop game versus Marquette digger had Hanzlik guard Lee on both ends of the floor.
Lee got so frustrated that he belted Hanzlik.
It was really funny to watch someone defend a player when we had the ball.
This post was edited on 3/18 3:03 PM by cgvr
Butch Lee almost single-handedly beat the US for Puerto Rico in the '76 games.
In one ND hoop game versus Marquette digger had Hanzlik guard Lee on both ends of the floor.
Lee got so frustrated that he belted Hanzlik.
It was really funny to watch someone defend a player when we had the ball.
This post was edited on 3/18 3:03 PM by cgvr
WGN-TV would broadcast both Cubs and White Sox games. WGN-TV is Jack Brickhouse, Bozo, Ray Rayner, Garfield Goose, Ernie Banks, Family Classics, Lloyd Pettit, Vince Lloyd, and Blackhawk hockey. WGN radio is a 50k watt super station that was for our moms and dads and grandparents. The kids in those days were all in for WLS and WCFL.
Irish jack i grew up watching Ray Rayner and Bozo's circus. Back in the 60's and 70's. SB had 4 stations and dad had a bjg antenna with a rotor on it. We would turn the knob on the remote to turn it NW and we could get the Chicago VHF stations. 2 cbs, 5 nbc, 7abc, 9 wgn and 11 pbs.. By the 70's i had a tv in my room and pulled all kinds of stuff to try and get the Chicago UHF stations. Hanging antennas to my ceiling or outside my window on the roof. All so i could get the White Sox games on ch. 32. Kind of preparred me for getting into shortwave radio and ham later in life.
So the old WGN that was a local Chicago channel that was televised nationally, is now local only? I havent watched it in so long. Explains why on the Driect TV guide it was on at 3AM. Proabably wasnt even the Chicago news.
This is going way back. I member when the White Sox games were on radio and they didn't send the announcer to away games. Bob Elson, the announcer would call the games in Chicago , getting the information by ticker tape. When he wasn't talking you could hear the sound of the ticker tale machine in the background.
This post was edited on 3/21 8:50 AM by silver52
This post was edited on 3/21 8:50 AM by silver52
I remember watching Ray Rayner and he would write the previous day's baseball scores on a chalkboard. Only way we could get West Coast scores ! Obviously pre-espn and Internet.
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