The Old WHDH-TV Channel 5 equipment (was Re: The courtship of NBCby the Herald-Traveler)

[Dan.Strassberg]

CBS applied and was the first to propose a tower site in the
Newton-Needham area. I suspect that CBS might have withdrwn its
application by the time the field had been whittled down to the
applicants you listed, however.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maureen Carney" <m_carney@yahoo.com>
To: "Boston Radio Group" <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: The Old WHDH-TV Channel 5 equipment (was Re: The
courtship of NBCby the Herald-Traveler)


> What I never understood is if the H-T had issues why did they get
> the license in the 1st place? The initial contact the H-T people had
> with the FCC was mild compared to other applicants, and there was no
> proof of a payoff. The structure of how ad time was sold (an
> advertiser had to buy space in the Herald and Traveler, as well as
> time on 850, 94.5 and channel 5) would seem to be more trobulesome
> but did not come up initially. There were other applicants for
> channel 5, including Springfield Television (owners of WWLP), DuMont
> and a local group with limited broacasting experience (IIRC Dom
> DiMaggio was one of the investors in that group). Each one of those
> applicants had pros and cons (especially DuMont). Was the FCC really
> hung up about applicants who already owned a local AM and/or FM
> station being "better" because of a track record?
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