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...left the air and was replaced by the new licensee, WCVB. The case had followed a tortuous legal path involving three Supreme Court decisions, two U.S. District Court of Appeals rulings, and five rulings by the Federal Communications Commission. The new station, owned and operated by Boston Broadcasters Incorporated (BBI) and counting several prominent Harvard professors among its stockholders and board of directors, promised to make improvements and innovations in educational, science, health, and children's programming, and community-orientated shows. The Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, which owned WHDH-TV, promised to fold if it lost the station...
...hard to assess what positive effects the new station, WCVB, and the new ownership, BBI, will have on the television media, or, for that matter, in taking up the informational gap that will no doubt be left by the departure of the Herald-Traveler. Reviews in the Boston Globe and the Phoenix of the new station and its "innovative" programming were mixed. But Robert G. Gardner '48, lecturer on Visual Studies and a member of BBI's board of directors, says that many changes are still in planning, which limits the accuracy of Boston reviews. "The first two months have...
...other areas, WCVB has made a start, but a slow one. New children's programs have been added, as have such worthwhile (but inherently boring) educational and health programs such as "Medical Call." Community-oriented shows were what BBI desired most, and the station has more local programing. Gardner claims, than any other in Boston, or perhaps in the country. The 30 to 35 hours a week of local programing bear this...
...Whether BBI has the money to develop and create the programs that these men envision may be another matter. The stockholder group is extremely small--only 25 or 30 people--but most are either heavily engaged in day-to-day commitments, or in policy. Although Gardner said that most of the changes will be worked out sometime this Fall, he admitted that the station had to "get out from debt and the shakedown" before they could contemplate implementation...
...announcing the decision. Harold Clancy, president of the Herald-Traveler, said that the loss of Channel 5 in Boston to Boston Broadcasters Inc. (BBI) had cut off "the source of funds essential to continue newspaper operation." BBI took over Channel 5 in March after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to reverse a lower court's ruling granting it license to the station...