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Boston Marathon moving to WCVB, ESPN beginning in 2023


tjt24

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Not sure if this is worthy of its own thread (feel free to lock if not), but the Boston Marathon is moving to WCVB and ESPN beginning with next year's running. 

 

The other Hearst stations in New England (WMUR, WMTW and WPTZ) will simulcast WCVB's coverage of the race. 

 

https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-marathon-new-broadcast-home-wcvb-channel-5-patriots-day-2023/40377262

 

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2022/06/espn-and-wcvb-channel-5-named-exclusive-broadcast-partners-for-the-boston-marathon/

 

https://www.baa.org/espn-and-wcvb-channel-5-named-exclusive-broadcast-partners-boston-marathon

 

 

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3 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

If it's anything like how they do the New York City Marathon with WABC, ESPN will likely use their talent and WCVB's.

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I know ESPN has WABC's reporters along the marathon route. But who will be producing coverage of the race though? Does WABC and ESPN jointly produce coverage of the NYC Marathon? 

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16 hours ago, TheRolyPoly said:

Back where it belongs... IMO.

I mean I get where you're coming from. WCVB used to broadcast the marathon for the longest time in the 90s and 2000s, but WBZ didn't do a bad job covering the race for as long as they did. 

 

Getting back to next year's race. I wonder if CVB will bring Mike Lynch out of retirement for this. I'm not speculating either way. It's just a thought.

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On 6/22/2022 at 8:25 PM, tjt24 said:

Yeah that's what I was thinking. I know ESPN has WABC's reporters along the marathon route. But who will be producing coverage of the race though? Does WABC and ESPN jointly produce coverage of the NYC Marathon? 


 

ESPN leads production, with the help of a third party live production vendor, and uses some WABC reporters and resources. 

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