Word: whdh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court of Appeals decided last week to uphold a 1969 Federal Communications Commission ruling taking the license for broadcasting on Channel 5 from WHDH, and giving it to BBI, ending a sixteen-year-old legal battle...
...WHDH president Harold Clancy has indicated that the station-which is owned by the Boston Herald-Traveler-will continue the appeal to higher courts. But spokesmen for BBI remain optimistic. "I would be disappointed if we weren't broadcasting within a year," said William J. Poorvu, treasurer of BBI and assistant professor of City Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
...transfer of license from WHDH to BBI may also have serious financial repercussions. WHDH president Clancy maintained that the loss of broadcasting revenue would not force the parent company, Herald-Traveler Corp, to cease publication of the newspaper. But the issue is in doubt. Most of the company's $2.8 million net profit last year came from WHDH while the faltering Herald-Traveler operated at a loss...
...license was first offered in 1954, and granted to WHDH in 1957. Shortly thereafter, charges of political dealings between the president of WHDH and the chairman of the FCC threw the matter into the courts. After that, the license was continued on a temporary basis...