Word: whdh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should the Commission, in its meeting today, set the date for BBI's takeover from the current operator, WHDH, it will end a long struggle between BBI and the Herald-Traveler Corp., parent company of WHDH...
...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...
...struggle between Boston Broadcasting, Inc. (BBI) and the Boston Herald Traveler, co-owner of WHDH-TV, for control of TV Channel Five, flared up again Tuesday when a Suffolk County grand jury indicted Nathan H. David, executive vice-president of BBI, on three counts of security violations...
...January 1969 the Federal Communications Commission (PCC) denied WHDH's application to renew its license, awarding it to BBI instead. WHDH appealed the ruling, but it was upheld by the courts. On August 20, however, the FCC requested the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reopen the entire case, in view of the various federal civil suits against David and a ruling is still pending on this request...
After delaying for six years, the FCC ruled in favor of BBI in May, 1969, and WHDH appealed. The case then stagnated for another 18 months until last week...