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...group called the Boston Broad-casters which includes Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, and Robert G. Gardner '48, director of Harvard's Film Study Center, are optimistic about their chances of obtaining the WHDH-TV license in the near future...
...Federal Communications Commission will set a date for hearings on the relicensing of Channel 5 sometime this week. Since 1956 the station has been operated by the Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation on a series of temporary permits. Last September, when the F.C.C. extended the WHDH license for four months, it agreed to consider new applications...
Robert B. Choate, publisher of the Herald-Traveler and current owner of WHDH, said in a telephone interview Friday that "our record of public accomplishment leaves little doubt that the F.C.C. will again award us the license." To the charge that WHDH suffered from mediocrity he retorted, "Absurd. Our performance has been outstanding...
Gardner, however, was doubtful about Choate's chances. He claimed that the Herald - Traveler - WHDH complex was generally unhealthy, and said, "diversification of the mass media insures vitality while concentration breeds stagnation." He said that his group would revamp Channel 5 to make better use of Boston's educational resources...
...said that the Boston Broadcasters was opposing WHDH's application for a renewal of its present license because WHDH is headed by Robert B. Choate, who is also publisher of the Boston Herald-Traveler. "We want to separate the mass media holdings," he said. "It's a bad idea for one person to control both a newspaper and TV station...