Re: WNDS/WBZ alliance [The REAL STORY]

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, David W. Harris wrote:

> Working from memory and a few clippings, I recall a couple subsequent
> serious efforts to bring CBS-TV to NH that the network turned down--once
> burned, twice shy?  In 1993 a group seeking to buy WGOT (Ch. 60)
> approached CBS.  A key participant was Dick Osborne, a man with plenty
> of contacts at CBS Radio as president/GM of WKXL.  (After CBS said no,
> the group got into serious discussions with Fox, which backed out late
> in 1994 when there was talk of WMUR ditching ABC for Fox; Osborne et al.
> let their option for WGOT expire when it was clear they weren't going to
> get a network affiliation--an essential element for their potential
> backers.)

Why couldn't they get an affiliation?  I'd think all the networks other
than ABC would be trying to get a New Hampshire affiliate.  I guess that
shows how little I know.
 
> Some time later (1995 or 1996, I think) Creativideo, operators of the
> local programming channel on Continental Cablevision's Concord area
> systems and of the statewide Yankee Cable Network, made a presentation
> in hopes of becoming a cable-only CBS affiliate.  

The Yankee Network lives!

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