WLVI News Bellys Up

[Doug Drown]

Amen!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert S Chase" <attychase@comcast.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 12:53 PM
Subject: WLVI News Bellys Up


> 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>
> > Message-ID: <004801c723de$eb402570$9447da18@Mark>
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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
>
>
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