Word: licensee
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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, Inc. (BBI).
In January, 1969, WHDH's license to Channel Five ran out, and was awarded to BBI, a private company with a number of Harvard professors as shareholders. Previously, four other challengers had battled unsuccessfully for 13 years to wrest the license from WHDH.
No Butterflies. Sarnoff's zeal to be first with color TV led him into an epic battle with William Paley's CBS. RCA developed a "compatible" broadcast method that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won...
In Joe Hill director Bo Widerberg commits the worst of all artistic crimes: dishonesty towards his subject. In what purports to be a dramatization of Joe Hill's history, he has invented, deleted, and rearranged the life and times of the IWW bard. Such exploitation might be forgivable in the...
According to Massachusetts law, only a non-profit making hospital can supervise operation of kindney machines. The Brigham was in fact temporarlly licensed to supervise the Babcock Center, but the Public Health Council felt that the agreement between the Hospital and the Center did not clearly place the responsibility of...