RE:BosTV: payola, 1960

[Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>]

>Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:35:44 -0500
>To: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
>From: Bill Piacentini <billpi@ll.mit.edu>
>Subject: RE:BosTV: payola, 1960
>
>At 11:59 AM 5/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>   I don't recall whether or not TV covered it[Payola hearings]-- TV news was
>>still in its development phase.  Does anyone else recall whether or not the
>>payola scandals made TV?  
>>
>I recall seeing Dave Maynard and Norm Prescott at the hearings but it may
have been on the Huntley/Brinkley Report or Walter Cronkite and not on the
local news of WBZ-TV4, WNAC-TV7, and WHDH-TV5, all with strong radio
stations at the time. I don't believe they even had 30 minutes of local news
(weren't they still on 15 minute local/ 15 minute network?).
>

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