Re: WSRS ( W1XOJ )

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

On 9 Jul 2003 at 15:07, DonKelley@aol.com wrote:

> The story I heard is that the Boston Herald was trying to make inroads to
> the west of Boston so they could get some readership and advertisers in
> the Worcester area.  This, of course, was Telegram & Gazette territory,
> owners of WTAG.
> 
> The T&G cut a deal with the Herald.  We'll give you the license for
> Channel 5, and you keep your newspaper out of our territory.
> 
> Thus WTAG-TV became WHDH-TV (Channel 5) before it got on the air. 
 
If literally correct, that would seem to contradict the story of the WHDH-TV license that was 
told during the hearings that led to the license being taken away.  If WTAG had actually 
been awarded the license and transferred it to WHDH, the story of the grant of Channel 5 to 
WHDH following an improper ex-parte contact between the publisher of the Boston Herald 
Traveler and the chairman of the FCC could not be so.  It was the grant of the license to 
WHDH that was set aside.  If the license had been granted to WTAG and then transferred, 
only the transfer, and not the license, could have been set aside.

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