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Democratic Party Telethon. 18 1/2 hours with such as Joan Rivers, Mike Nichols, Gregory Peck. Johnny Carson, Watch and give: if they help elect McGovern, it'll be worth the time and money. SATURDAY: CHANNEL...
...been forced to sell the Traveler to the Hearst Corporation, owner of the Boston Record American; a decade's inattention had left the paper wholly dependent on the television revenue of WHDH. Today, Boston has one less newspaper, one new television station (WCVB now broadcasts over channel 5, previously WHDH), and a lot of unemployed journalists...
...word, the Herald-Traveler announced that it would cease publication on June 18 after 125 years of publication, and sell its plant and assets to the Hearst Corporation for $8.5 million. The paper had staked its survival on a successful court battle to retain the license for channel five, worth an estimated $50 million. The profits of WHDH had more than made up for the huge operating deficits the paper had sustained in recent years. Without this financial transfusion, the paper seemed doomed...
This proved to be the case when Harold Clancy, President of the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, announced the death of his paper. Clancy explained that the loss of Channel Five had cut off "the source of funds essential to continue newspaper operation." He explained that "efforts to find a buyer for our newspaper willing to undertake the burden of three-newspaper competition in the Boston market" had failed, and the sale to the Hearst interests, which publishes the Boston Record-American, a daily tabloid, had been financially expedient...
...interesting, well-argued editorials has also been vastly increased. But WCVB's programing diet still depends on re-runs, old movies, soap operas, and network prime time shows, all of which are of debatable quality and importance. Also when WCVB took over the ABC affiliate in Boston--with Channel Seven, WNAC gaining the CBS shows--the station took on a network that has consistently run behind both CBS and NBC in the all-important ratings. But Gardner promised that the viewer would soon see a lot of "unexpected things," mentioning 30 to 60 second, non-commercial mini-documentaries...