Tommy Cowan. Sandy Hunt, a sportswriter for the Newark Sunday Call, sent play-by-play reports/summaries to Cowan via the telephone. Note on through : World Series coverage carried by Westinghouse Broadcasting was available to any commercially operated radio station. The 1923 World Series featured the first true, stadium originated radio broadcast of World Series games. Bill McGeehan did the play-by-play honors at first. However, when McGeehan reportedly tired of the chore, he quit in the middle of Game 3. Shortly thereafter, Graham McNamee took over play-by-play duties. AT&T fed the 1923 World Series coverage by New York's WEAF via their long-distance lines to stations as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as Washington, D.C. The 1927 World Series was the first to be broadcast from coast to coast over a full radio network. Local radio Since 1982, the participating teams' flagship radio stations are permitted to air their own World Series broadcasts with their regular announcing crews, and their audio is made available as usual through MLB's digital presences and Sirius XM. However, the teams' other radio network affiliates are contractually obligated to carry the national radio feeds. The flagship stations also much mention the coverage as being presented by the same sponsor as the ESPN Radio broadcasts. 2020s 2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s Notes marked the first time that teams' flagship radio stations were permitted to produce their own local World Series broadcasts and air them live. In prior years, these stations were contractually required to carry the national radio networks' broadcasts (although they could produce re-created games with local announcers and air them after the Series had ended). The affiliate stations in the teams' radio networks continued to be obligated to carry the national broadcasts. After thousands of Phillies fans—outraged over being unable to hear local team announcers Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn call the games during the 1980 World Series—deluged the team, the networks, and the Commissioner's office with angry letters and petitions, Major League Baseball changed its broadcast contract to allow the flagship radio stations for participating World Series teams to produce and air their own local Series broadcasts beginning in 1982. When the Phillies next won a World Series, in , Kalas was able to make the call of the final out. In and , KMOX, the St. Louis Cardinals' flagship station at the time, simulcast with CBS Radio's World Series coverage involving the Cardinals.