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...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...
...MARCH 19, the 17-year legal battle for control of television channel five in Boston ended on an anticlimactic note as WHDH-TV quietly left the air and was replaced by the new licensee, WCVB. The case had followed a tortuous legal path involving three Supreme Court decisions, two U.S. District Court of Appeals rulings, and five rulings by the Federal Communications Commission. The new station, owned and operated by Boston Broadcasters Incorporated (BBI) and counting several prominent Harvard professors among its stockholders and board of directors, promised to make improvements and innovations in educational, science, health, and children...
...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...
Victories. Despite the best efforts of the broadcasters-and often of the industry-dominated FCC-the challengers have won several major victories. After a petition by another commercial group, the license for Boston's WHDH-TV was taken away from the company that also owned the Herald Traveler newspaper. As a result, the Herald Traveler, which depended on TV revenues, will cease publication and sell its assets to the Hearst newspaper chain. In an out-of-court settlement, Mexican-American groups engineered some revisions in Time Inc.'s proposed sale of its five TV stations to McGraw-Hill...