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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...
...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...