WLVI News Bellys Up

[Robert S Chase]

This could not have happened if the cross ownership and ownership separation 
rules were still in place. Anybody that thinks their removal helped in the 
expansion of the availability of alternative media sources just doesn't get 
it. The FCC for a long time has not operated in the public interest rather 
it operates in the bucklic interest. Tell me we are better off with media 
monopolies and I'll show you country where the speech is controlled.

Bob Chase

> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:31:02 -0500
> From: "Mark Watson" <markwats@comcast.net>
> Subject: Jack Hynes Delivers Harsh Commentary On Last WLVI Produced
> Newscast
> To: "Boston Radio" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
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>  Longtime Boston TV news fixture Jack Hynes delivered an angst-filled
> commentary on last night's final WLVI produced "Ten O'Clock News" . 
> Starting
> tonight WHDH Channel 7 will produce the 10 PM news airing on Channel 56.
>
>   I watched last night's final broadcast. I thought that Jack Hynes looked
> bitter as he vented the frustrations of himself and  the roughly 150 WLVI
> staffers sent to the unemployment line a week before Christmas. After some
> chatter and thank yous, the final few minutes consisted of video snipets 
> of
> the WLVI staffers waving bye to the camera, ending with the lights over 
> the
> empty anchor desk slowly fading to black.
>
>   Here's a link to a brief Boston Herald article about Hynes' comments 
> last
> night:
>
> http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=172808
>
> Mark Watson