WZON claims six AP sports awards

Bangor all-sports radio station WZON (620 AM) came away from the annual Maine Associated Press (AP) Broadcast Association awards banquet last month with an .833 batting average.

The Sports Zone left with three firsts, a second, and two thirds, winning prizes for six of the seven awards handed out.

WZON’s awards lineup was headed up by firsts for best sportscast (by Dale Duff and the Sports Zone morning show), best sports feature (for Pat Spekhardt’s story on Bangor High School soccer player Eric Milles) and best play-by-play (for Toby Nelson’s tournament basketball game broadcast on Dover-Foxcroft-licensed sister station WDME (103.1 FM).

WZON swept the play-by-play category with a second for team coverage of high school basketball coverage (Duff, Spekhardt, Jeff Solari and Clem Labree) and a third for high school football coverage (Labree and Dan Chadbourne). WZON also won a third in the feature division for coverage of the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race.

CSNNE, Alley earn Emmy

Addison native and Comcast SportsNet New England videographer/cameraman Barry Alley won another New England Emmy Award from the Boston/New England chapter of the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences.

The Narraguagus High School graduate and the rest of his CSNNE broadcast team received the honor in the event/game-live/unedited category for coverage of the Boston Celtics. This is CSNNE’s fourth Emmy for Celtics coverage in the last 12 years.

Fenway DVD set a home run

A&E Home Video and Major League Baseball Productions have teamed up to create another ideal gift for New England sports fans.

“The Boston Red Sox: Essential Games of Fenway Park” is a six-disc DVD set packaged in a metal case highlighting six outstanding games played at Fenway Park, as selected via a poll of Red Sox Nation fans.

The set, which arrived in video stores Tuesday, sells for a suggested retail price of $59.95. It features 161/2 hours of video footage from the six games, as well as bonus clips and extras highlighting Hall of Fame players Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski; the origins of Fenway Park; no-hitters by Derek Lowe and Clay Buchholz; and memorable postseason moments from 1967, 1986, 1990, and 2004.

The six games that wound up making the starting lineup are: Sept. 30, 1967, when Boston beat Minnesota to pull into a four-way tie for first in the American League pennant race; Game 6 of the 1975 World Series when Carlton Fisk hit a game-winning home run in the 12th inning; April 29, 1986, when Roger Clemens struck out a major league-record 20 batters against Seattle; the 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Fenway Park; Game 3 of the 1999 American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees; and April 22, 2007, when the Red Sox hit four consecutive home runs in a win over the Yankees.

A&E and MLB Productions have also released a six-DVD set for the New York Mets and Shea Stadium (yes, Game 6 of the 1986 World Series is one of the top six games) for the same suggested retail price. A New York Yankees-Yankee Stadium set is due out this fall.

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