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

[Mark Laurence]

I'd say Wayne Woodlief usually takes the more liberal viewpoint. He's retired from the Herald as a full-timer but still writes a weekly column.  I think he actually began his Herald career at the Herald Traveler.

Peter Gelzinis is more of a man-on-the-street writer than a political columnist, but when politics enters his writing, he comes across as a Democrat.  

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

The Herald-Traveler was at least as Republican as the Globe was
Democratic. Don't know about then but currently, the Globe has at
least one Republican columnist. Does the Herald have any Democratic
columnists?

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Subject: Re: The Old WHDH-TV Channel 5 equipment (was Re: The
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> As I had said in a post some weeks ago regarding Boston newspapers,
> I recall that when I was a boy growing up in the '60s, my Republican
> elders usually purchased the Boston Herald and Traveler and
> Democrats favored the Globe. But I don't really know to what extent
> the H-T editors toed the Republican party line.  Were the Herald and
> Traveler really Republican newspapers, or were they independent?
> What did they do that initially alienated the Kennedys?   -Doug
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
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> Cc: "nnewsgroup Boston-Radio-Interest"
> <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:27 PM
> Subject: Re: The Old WHDH-TV Channel 5 equipment (was Re: The
> courtship of NBCby the Herald-Traveler)
>
>
>> Something else happened in 1969 to make the Kennedy Family even
>> angrier at the Herald-Traveler and it involved an auto accident on
>> Chappaquiddick Island.
>>
>> That accident happened on a Friday night/Saturday morning but both
>> the
>> Globe and Herald did not print anything until Monday but the Herald
>> went big with the story on Sunday with a banner headline.
>>
>> Now did the family try to squash the story which by then a public
>> record? Possibly but in any event the Herald ran with it and
>> everybody
>> played catch up the next day.
>>
>> Now in fairness there was another news event that weekend that was
>> perhaps one of the Top Five news stories of the 20th Century...The
>> First Moon Landing.
>>
>> A little irony the following Friday as the Kennedy Family had Ted
>> issue a live statement from Hyannisport and paid WHDH-TV for the
>> mobile unit and AT&T long lines set up back to Boston. It was
>> supposed
>> to be an address to Massachusetts voters only but wound up be
>> carried
>> live worldwide. I myself saw it at a department store in Toronto on
>> CBC.
>>
>> What crime did the Herald do as all they did was report the story
>> as
>> they should have. Why did Tom Winship sit on it for 2 days is a
>> better
>> question. But it also showed the Kennedy Family could not control
>> the
>> Herald and that did not help their case in DC.
>>
>> Did the Herald use influence to get the license? Most
>> certainly...but
>> it pales by comparison on what the Chicago Tribune was able to pull
>> off. The Tribune managed to get a VHF allocation in NYC on Channel
>> 11
>> which ultimately forced WJAR to move to Channel 10 but also in co
>> hoots with the Milwaukee Journal (WTMJ) to have the only VHF indy
>> in
>> Chicago as Channel 4's allocation was moved to Milwaukee and CBS
>> who
>> had bought Channel 4 in Chicago was moved to Channel 2 and Zenith
>> lost
>> everything.
>>
>> The FCC has always treated the Tribune with kid gloves which makes
>> the
>> Herald case that much sadder.
>>
>> http://www.chicagotelevision.com/WBKB.htm
>>
>