Word: whdh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Victories. Despite the best efforts of the broadcasters-and often of the industry-dominated FCC-the challengers have won several major victories. After a petition by another commercial group, the license for Boston's WHDH-TV was taken away from the company that also owned the Herald Traveler newspaper. As a result, the Herald Traveler, which depended on TV revenues, will cease publication and sell its assets to the Hearst newspaper chain. In an out-of-court settlement, Mexican-American groups engineered some revisions in Time Inc.'s proposed sale of its five TV stations to McGraw-Hill...
...added, however, that the Herald-Traveler Corporation would continue to operate radio station WHDH and would change its name to WHDH Corporation...
...Although the paper lost $5,000,000 in 1971, the parent Herald Traveler Corp. could always post a healthy profit, at least until last year, thanks to some $6,000.000 in annual net income from its television station WHDH. (Declining TV revenue in 1971 caused a net loss for the company of $310,000.) The really damaging blow came in January, when the Federal Communications Commission took away the corporation's TV license in order to diversify local media ownership. The corporation had fought 24 years for clear title to the license in a complex, oft-contested case...
...while it seemed that the Hearst Corp., which owns the Record American, might provide a lifeline. There was talk of a merger that would convert Hearst's tabloid into a standard-sized afternoon paper that would be printed in the Herald's modern plant. But when WHDH was finally lost, Hearst stiffened its terms and is now reported to be interested only in buying the Herald's plant and assets. The corporation's annual meeting, originally scheduled for next week, has been postponed indefinitely while the board ponders the Hearst proposal. But, says one Herald executive...