demise of WHDH (AM) was: Nightcap

[Kevin Vahey]

Metromedia helped keep BBI afloat in 1971 with a cash infusion.

Harold Clancy who was the GM at WHDH developed the strategy to try and
bankrupt WCVB before the legal fight was over and it almost worked.
Clancy refused to make an arrangement with BBI to take over the
Morrisey Boulevard studios forcing BBI to build a plant in Needham and
renting space on the channel 4 stick. BBI almost went broke doing so
and would not have survived without the 'loan' from Metromedia.

BBI then plucked Bob Bennett to be GM from the Metromedia outlet in DC
and the relationship between the two groups was cozy.

To be fair when BBI cashed out a decade later they rewarded employees
with huge bonus checks.

On 1/4/09, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> <<On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 23:42:16 -0600, "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
> said:
>
>> Boston Broadcasters (BBI) talked a good game to the FCC and on paper
>> looked like a deserving license holder. But as we found out a decade
>> later it was all a sham for Metromedia to finally get the license.
>
> Huh?  Evidence?
>
> -GAWollman
>
>