RE: Various replies

["Mike Fitzpatrick" <fitzradio@map.com>]

Who owns Channel 6?  I thought Sinclair (ex Gannett) owned 13.

--MIKE

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> To: beckwith@ime.net
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> Subject: Re: Various replies
>
>
> In a message dated 10/18/99 7:56:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> beckwith@ime.net writes:
>
> << Just the same, I find it odd that the awarding of digital spectrum to
> current
>  analog commercial TV broadcasters is called a multi-billion-dollar
> "giveaway"
>  while the cost associated with conversion to digital for public
> TV is called
> an
>  "unfunded federal mandate."  >>
>
> Good point.  I would say that both claims are wrong.
>
> <>
>
> Channels 6 and 13 would have been sold even if Digital TV never
> existed.  The
> sales were driven mainly be the consolidation in the industry
> that resulted
> from the elimination of ownership limits.  Channel 13's sale was
> part of a
> company break up that resulted from a lack of a succesor to run
> the family
> owned business.
>
> Also, I haven't noticed any reduction in news commitment at WCSH?  Have I
> missed something?
>
> -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Mainr
>