Word: whdh
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William Dilday, comfortable as personnel manager for Boston TV station WHDH, had no intention of moving -particularly not to a small Deep South city. Says he: "I'm a product of the hustle-bustle megalopolis." In 1972, however, he could not turn down an offer to become the first black general manager of a U.S. TV station-WLBT in Jackson, Miss...
Sheriff Eisenstadt joins a group of other possibles, including City Councilman Christopher Iannella, School Committeeman John Kerrigan and WHDH talkmaster Avi Nelson, who probably will not be important candidates in the September race. Eisenstadt and Kerrigan have limited political bases and are not in strong financial positions. Iannella suffers from money problems originating in an unsuccessful bid for state office. Although Nelson reportedly has the support of some influential Republicans in Boston, he too lacks a wide political base, appealing primarily to extreme antibusing forces...
...newspaper solvent these days, and Harold Clancy, the chief executive of the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, has provided us the textbook case of neglect. Clancy spent so much time over the last decade in a challenge before the Federal Communications Commission trying to save the corporation's lucrative subsidiary, WHDH-TV, that he let the Herald Traveler slip into organizational disarray. Now, having lost the battle before the FCC, he has been forced to sell the Traveler to the Hearst Corporation, owner of the Boston Record American; a decade's inattention had left the paper wholly dependent on the television...
...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...
WCVB appears little different from its predecessor, even to the point of retaining intact WHDH news staff. But there seems to be reason for a wait-and-see attitude. Gardner said that a major effort will be made improving WCVB's news programs, a move which might minimize the informational gap created by the death of the Herald-Traveler. He expected WCVB news to be doing more investigative reporting, and to use better graphics and visual aids...