Talk:Red Barber

Possible redirected link

The Red on the Phil Silvers Show link seems to bring up something that might be legitimate, but it is replaced by an ad page for the hosting service. It should be fixed or removed. AlvinMGO (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Relations with clubs, owners, networks

Throughout the biography some of the business relations should be clarified. I have marked some locations with hidden comments.

• If club president MacPhail hired Barber in Cincinnati, why mention the new owner Crosley at all?
• Did the Cincinati, Brooklyn, and New York ballclubs all hire the broadcast personnel, or hire Barber in particular, throughout his career? If the local stations hired broadcast personnel, but "everyone knows" that the clubs covertly ruled their broadcast partners, we should have a citation for that.
• Barber took a regular network job, evidently without permission of his primary employer, the local station or the ballclub (see above). Or does the employment concept not apply (citation needed)?
• Also throughout his career, did the networks routinely hire for the World Series the regular broadcast personnel of the participating teams? --P64 (talk) 22:43, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Red Barber Contribution to Baseball telecasting

The initial telecasts of the Brooklyn Dodgers were limited to home games, as television networks were limited by the extent to which coaxial cabling had connected various stations. The number of video cameras were also limited. I started watching Dodger games on TV in 1949. I recall Red Barber showing viewers an electrical device he used to show his cameraman the portion of the field he wanted the viewers to see during his commentary. He had devised a diagram of the playing field with small bulbs he could illuminate while continuing to talk to the audience. I’m not sure this can be included in the article based solely on my recollection. Btm1 (talk) 23:42, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

References

Vince Scully’s arrival

As mentioned in the article, "While running CBS Sports, Barber became the mentor of another redheaded announcer. He recruited the Fordham University graduate Vin Scully for CBS football coverage, and eventually invited him into the Dodgers' broadcast booth to succeed Harwell in 1950 (after the latter's departure for the crosstown New York Giants).”

My recollection differs, in that I recall Red Barber, Vince Scully, and a third person sharing broadcast and telecast duties before the Dodgers left Brooklyn in 1957. (Coincidently, I moved to the Los Angeles area the same year so I was able to continue being a Dodger fan.) I think that third person was either Connie Desmond or Ernie Harwell. Note that the article implies the Dodger broadcasts were not part of Barber’s CBS Sports job but instead the telecasts were on New York City’s Channel 9, WOR, owned by the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the radio broadcasts were on WMGM/WHN. The CBS TV station in New York City was Channel 2. Btm1 (talk) 00:07, 20 August 2015 (UTC)