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...MARCH 19, the 17-year legal battle for control of television channel five in Boston ended on an anticlimactic note as WHDH-TV quietly 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...
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...
...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...
...WCVB will be affiliated with the ABC national network
Immediately following the appellate court's decision. BBI formally requested the FCC to name a date for the takeover. Benito Gaguine, the BBI lawyer in Washington, said Thursday that he thought WCVB--the assigned call letters for the BBI station--would be given permission to go on the air within 30 days...