Word: whdh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even if they had been eager to bite the hand that promised to feed them, the commissioners never had sufficient funds to monitor stations properly. Only lately, under the prodding of Nicholas Johnson and a few other activist commissioners, has there been a change. Last January Boston station WHDH-TV lost its license for several reasons, including the other media interests of its owner. And last August, an FCC hearing examiner recommended the suspension of a Los Angeles station's license for "dreadful" programming and because it "miserably failed to serve the public interest." Around the country, groups...
...record album including the radio play-by-play of last year's Harvard-Yale football game is now available by mail. Ken Coleman. who covers all Harvard football games for WHDH Radio, is the broadcaster...
...varsity hockey game with league-leading Cornell scheduled for last night will be played this evening at 8 p.m. in Watson rink. Weather forced the postponement. All tickets have been sold, but WHDH will broadcast the game...
...long been concerned with what Commissioner Nicholas Johnson calls "the media barons"-newspaper publishers who also own local TV and radio stations and thus threaten "the free exchange of information and opinion." Last week, in an unprecedented ruling, the FCC denied renewal of the license of Boston's WHDH-TV, which is owned (along with AM and FM radio stations) by the Herald-Traveler Corp. Taking over the CBS-affiliated channel will be Boston Broadcasters Inc., a consortium of 30 Boston businessmen and Cambridge intellectuals...
Harold Clancy, president of the Herald-Traveler Corp., which has operated WHDH-TV since it came on the air in 1957, reported himself "shocked but undismayed" by the ruling and expressed confidence that it would be overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Until the court acts, the newspaper will retain control of the station...