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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Fred Cusick</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Frederick Michael Cusick</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1918-11-07</span>)</span>November 7, 1918<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Brighton, Massachusetts">Brighton, Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 15, 2009<span style="display:none">(2009-09-15)</span> (aged 90)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable, Massachusetts</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Former <a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">NHL</a> <a href="/wiki/Sports_commentator" title="Sports commentator">broadcaster</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Frederick Michael Cusick</b> (November 7, 1918 – September 15, 2009) was an American <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> broadcaster who served as the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Bruins" title="Boston Bruins">Boston Bruins</a> play-by-play announcer from <a href="/wiki/1971%E2%80%9372_NHL_season" title="1971–72 NHL season">1971</a> until <a href="/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_NHL_season" title="1996–97 NHL season">1997</a> on <a href="/wiki/WSBK-TV" title="WSBK-TV">WSBK-TV</a> (Channel 38) in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, and from <a href="/wiki/1984%E2%80%9385_NHL_season" title="1984–85 NHL season">1984</a> until <a href="/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_NHL_season" title="1994–95 NHL season">1995</a> on <a href="/wiki/NESN" title="NESN">NESN</a>. Counting his radio broadcasts, he was a Bruins' announcer for an unprecedented 45 years and was an active sports announcer for over seven decades. He is best known for yelling "SCORE!" when a Boston player scored a goal. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fred Cusick was born in the <a href="/wiki/Brighton,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Brighton, Massachusetts">Brighton</a> section of Boston. A graduate of (and former hockey player at) <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_University" title="Northeastern University">Northeastern University</a> in Boston, Cusick began broadcasting sports at WCOP in Boston in 1941 while a senior at Northeastern, crediting his hockey background as the entree to the position.<sup id="cite_ref-Interview_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He subsequently went into the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> in World War II, rising to lieutenant in command of a subchaser. After the war, he worked for several radio stations, hosting the popular <i>Irish Hour</i> on WVOM in <a href="/wiki/Brookline,_Massachusetts" title="Brookline, Massachusetts">Brookline</a>, which focused on sports, especially hockey. After a brief time in Washington during the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a><sup id="cite_ref-Interview_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and upon the retirement of Bruins' radio broadcaster <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ryan_(sportscaster)" title="Frank Ryan (sportscaster)">Frank Ryan</a>, Cusick – paired with ex-Bruin <a href="/wiki/Jack_Crawford_(ice_hockey)" title="Jack Crawford (ice hockey)">Jack Crawford</a> – became the radio play-by-play broadcaster of the Bruins from <a href="/wiki/1951%E2%80%9352_NHL_season" title="1951–52 NHL season">1952</a> to <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NHL_season" title="1962–63 NHL season">1963</a>, during which time he was also Sports Director for <a href="/wiki/WEZE" title="WEZE">WEEI</a> radio in Boston.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was the announcer for the first US network NHL broadcast (CBS-TV in January 1957); he spent four years in all working the <i>NHL Game of the Week</i> for <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Broadcasting_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Broadcasting System">CBS</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s-1970s">1960s-1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1960s-1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fred Cusick was the color commentator on <a href="/wiki/WEZE" title="WEZE">WEEI</a> for the very first game of the fledgling <a href="/wiki/American_Football_League" title="American Football League">American Football League</a>, a Friday night contest between the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Broncos" title="Denver Broncos">Denver Broncos</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Patriots" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Patriots">Boston Patriots</a> on September 9, 1960, at <a href="/wiki/Nickerson_Field" title="Nickerson Field">Nickerson Field</a> on the campus of <a href="/wiki/Boston_University" title="Boston University">Boston University</a>. He served as the color man for Patriots radio between 1960 and 1964. He also had a notable interview with golfing legend <a href="/wiki/Francis_Ouimet" title="Francis Ouimet">Francis Ouimet</a> in 1963, on the fiftieth anniversary of Ouimet's 1913 <a href="/wiki/U.S._Open_(golf)" title="U.S. Open (golf)">U.S. Open</a> victory. It is the only video interview of Ouimet in existence.<sup id="cite_ref-Interview_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Interview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1960s, Cusick was responsible for getting Boston Bruins' games on local television regularly. In 1963, Bruins CEO Weston Adams asked Fred and producer/director Neal P. Cortel to arrange the first-ever live telecast of a Bruins game from the old Boston Garden. The experimental telecast was wildly popular, and later during the 1963/1964 season, Fred hosted the Sunday morning rebroadcasts of edited <a href="/wiki/CBC_Television" title="CBC Television">CBC Television</a> tapes of Saturday night Bruins games in Montreal and Toronto; they were flown back overnight with the team, then seen first at 9 am on <a href="/wiki/WMUR-TV" title="WMUR-TV">WMUR-TV</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester, New Hampshire</a>, and WTEV-TV (now <a href="/wiki/WLNE-TV" title="WLNE-TV">WLNE-TV</a>) in the Providence/New Bedford market (the signal[s] of which covered some of the Boston areas), and then at 1 pm on the old <a href="/wiki/WHDH-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WHDH-TV">WHDH-TV</a> (now <a href="/wiki/WCVB-TV" title="WCVB-TV">WCVB-TV</a>) in Boston, <a href="/wiki/WWLP-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WWLP-TV">WWLP-TV</a> in Springfield, and <a href="/wiki/WRLP-TV" class="mw-redirect" title="WRLP-TV">WRLP-TV</a> in Northampton. Fred's telecasts were enormously popular, and within a few years, games would be shown live on <a href="/wiki/WLVI" title="WLVI">WKBG</a> and later began a long run at <a href="/wiki/WSBK-TV" title="WSBK-TV">WSBK-TV</a>. </p><p>From 1969 through 1971, Cusick was the radio voice of the Boston Bruins on <a href="/wiki/WBZ-AM" class="mw-redirect" title="WBZ-AM">WBZ-AM</a> 1030 (Bob Wilson replaced him on WBZ-AM starting in 1972) when they reached the pinnacle of their popularity, winning their first <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Cup" title="Stanley Cup">Stanley Cup</a> in 29 years in 1970, and setting a regular-season record for points and goals scored in <a href="/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NHL_season" title="1970–71 NHL season">1970–71</a>. His broadcasting partners were former NHL players <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Peirson" title="Johnny Peirson">Johnny Peirson</a> in 1969–70 and <a href="/wiki/Cal_Gardner" title="Cal Gardner">Cal Gardner</a> in 1970–71. </p><p>In 1971, Cusick returned to TV, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Don_Earle" title="Don Earle">Don Earle</a>, who had been hired by WSBK when they began covering the Boston Bruins, as play-by-play man for Bruins' games on WSBK with Peirson as his color man; when NESN was formed in 1984, he did double duty for 11 years, calling games for both channels, first with <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Peirson" title="Johnny Peirson">Johnny Peirson</a> and later both <a href="/wiki/Derek_Sanderson" title="Derek Sanderson">Derek Sanderson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dave_Shea_(sportscaster)" title="Dave Shea (sportscaster)">Dave Shea</a>. In his last years before he retired from broadcasting the Bruins, he did games only on WSBK. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s-1990s">1980s-1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1980s-1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Hockey_Hall_of_Fame" title="Hockey Hall of Fame">Hockey Hall of Fame</a> in the first wave of media honorees in 1984, and in that year was also named the first winner of the <a href="/wiki/Foster_Hewitt_Memorial_Award" title="Foster Hewitt Memorial Award">Foster Hewitt Memorial Award</a> (along with <a href="/wiki/Danny_Gallivan" title="Danny Gallivan">Danny Gallivan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rene_Lecavalier" class="mw-redirect" title="Rene Lecavalier">Rene Lecavalier</a> and <a href="/wiki/Foster_Hewitt" title="Foster Hewitt">Hewitt</a> himself), "in recognition of members of the radio and television industry who made outstanding contributions to their profession and the game during their career in hockey broadcasting." He has also won the <a href="/wiki/Lester_Patrick_Trophy" title="Lester Patrick Trophy">Lester Patrick Trophy</a> in 1988 for outstanding service to hockey in the United States. </p><p>It was Cusick who did the television play-by-play of the last Bruins' game at the old <a href="/wiki/Boston_Garden" title="Boston Garden">Boston Garden</a> (a pre-season game against their rival <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens" title="Montreal Canadiens">Montreal</a> in 1995) and the first Bruins' game in the <a href="/wiki/TD_Garden" title="TD Garden">FleetCenter</a>, the 1995–96 season-opener against the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Islanders" title="New York Islanders">New York Islanders</a>, both with <a href="/wiki/Derek_Sanderson" title="Derek Sanderson">Derek Sanderson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sean_McDonough" title="Sean McDonough">Sean McDonough</a> and on WSBK.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s">2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After retiring from the Bruins' broadcasts in 1997, he began broadcasting home games for the <a href="/wiki/American_Hockey_League" title="American Hockey League">AHL</a> <a href="/wiki/Lowell_Lock_Monsters" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowell Lock Monsters">Lowell Lock Monsters</a> with former Bruin <a href="/wiki/Brad_Park" title="Brad Park">Brad Park</a> as his partner.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He retired for good as a hockey sportscaster after the 2002 season at the age of 83. </p><p>In 2007, he returned to the broadcast booth as the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod_Baseball_League" title="Cape Cod Baseball League">Cape Cod Baseball League</a> game of the week play-by-play announcer on <a href="/wiki/WBZ_(AM)" title="WBZ (AM)">WBZ (AM)</a> Radio. </p><p>His autobiography, <i>Fred Cusick: Voice of the Bruins</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px 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October 2006. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fred_Cusick&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fred Cusick died in his sleep on September 15, 2009, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable, Massachusetts</a>, from complications of <a href="/wiki/Bladder_cancer" title="Bladder cancer">bladder cancer</a>. 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