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...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...
Three months later WCVB-TV still struggled to implement the changes it promised, while, true to its 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...
...WITH the demise of the Herald-Traveler, Boston lost one of its three remaining daily newspapers, adding to a sad nationwide trend which has seen the number of papers in New York, for example, plumet from as many as ten to a bare minimum of two, with just one daily morning newspaper--The New York Times...
...Beach City Council have suggested that the kids either cut their hair or go home. One organization calling itself Operation Backbone is against granting any public facilities to "hippies, yippies or zippies." Before its efforts ground to a stop, The Miami Snowplow worried in a letter to the Miami Herald: "If an uninvited guest has nowhere to go to the bathroom because no one thought to set up portable toilets, then he will go to the bathroom in our parks or waters...