Re: Channel 9 to Boston

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 9 Apr 2003 at 1:02, Dan.Strassberg@att.net wrote:

> Your question suggested a great question for our historians. I remember,
> about half a century ago, before I came to Boston, some group owner
> proposed buying channel 9 and moving it into the Boston market. I think
> this proposal dates to the time when many companies, including CBS, were
> trying to obtain a construction permit for Channel 5. CBS, which wanted to
> build WEEI-TV, was actually the first company to propose a transmitter
> site in the Newton-Needham area. I think one of the applicants--maybe
> Storer Broadcasting--decided that it might be easier to buy and relocate
> Channel 9 than to continue on as one of the many parties in the
> competitive hearing process for channel 5.

Wasn't channel 5 originally allocated to Worcester or something like that?
 
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