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...long been concerned with what Commissioner Nicholas Johnson calls "the media barons"-newspaper publishers who also own local TV and radio stations and thus threaten "the free exchange of information and opinion." Last week, in an unprecedented ruling, the FCC denied renewal of the license of Boston's WHDH-TV, which is owned (along with AM and FM radio stations) by the Herald-Traveler Corp. Taking over the CBS-affiliated channel will be Boston Broadcasters Inc., a consortium of 30 Boston businessmen and Cambridge intellectuals...
Harold Clancy, president of the Herald-Traveler Corp., which has operated WHDH-TV since it came on the air in 1957, reported himself "shocked but undismayed" by the ruling and expressed confidence that it would be overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Until the court acts, the newspaper will retain control of the station...
...exuberance generated by their spectacular success on the Hill, the White people attempted, shortly after the January 1 inaugural, to get a replacement for Boston Police Commissioner Edmund L., McNamera. McNamera is not an unpopular police commissioner (indeed a telephone poll conducted on WHDH-TV's "The Big Question" revealed overwhelming popular support for McNamera). The closeness and familiarity with Boston that make him popular among his men and most Bostonians are the facts which his critics invoke when arguing for his removal. Some Bostonians--the ones who have White's ear--feel that a man a little bit more...
While most of the queries deal with issues of national significance, some are inconsequential ("Do you favor a leash law for dogs?"), frivolous ("Do you like long hair on boys?") or merely vague ("Have we failed our founding fathers?"). In Boston, 64% of WHDH's callers said that they believed that flying saucers originated in outer space; in Tampa, Fla., 67% confessed to WFLA that they cheat on their income tax. When asked if they would vote for Lyndon Johnson in 1968, response was a resounding no from 63% of the callers in Houston, 77% in Pittsburgh...
...weren't fans, we were spectators plugged into a WHDH announcer whose voice sounded like breakfast, and worse yet, into distant, unimportant football games. Notre Dame vs. Purdue. How are the Boilermakers doing? Yanked back and forth in this echo chamber, one received a startling impression of America on a Saturday afternoon. A vast vacuum crossed only by baseballs, footballs, and flying hysterics...