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...tangled claims and counterclaims over operating rights to Channel Five may finally be resolved today, when the FCC meets for the first time this year in Washington...
Today's meeting follows last Wednesday's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals not to reconsider the FCC's 1969 ruling that the broadcast license for Channel Five in Boston be granted to Boston Broadcasting...
WHDH has since operated on a temporary license, stalling BBI's takeover through a series of suits and appeals. In late April, 1971, WHDH filed charges with the FCC accusing BBI of fraud, misrepresentation, and concealment. Two months ago, following information unearthed by a team of Herald Traveler reporters, the Security and Exchange Commission brought a civil suit against Nathan David, executive vice president of BBI, on charges of selling unregistered stock...
Last Wednesday's appellate court decision denied an FCC request to reconsider awarding the license to BBI because of David's alleged involvement with the illegal sale of stock...
...that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won the Federal Communications Commission's license to proceed commercially. Sarnoff ordered his engineers back to their labs. Three years later, they produced a high-quality compatible system. The FCC reversed itself, and CBS lost a big round...