40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[A Joseph Ross]

On 6/17/2012 11:01 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:

> The H-T even build the WHDH-TV studios across from the Globe to taunt them.

They may have taken some pleasure in building it there, but I suspect 
that business considerations, including the proximity to the 
Herald-Traveler building, were more important.

> I still rank it as the biggest tragedy in Boston broadcast history as
> the H-T ran a top notch service. Everybody played games with the FCC
> back then but the H-T angered the wrong people starting with Joe
> Kennedy.

The full story was in the Boston Phoenix a few years ago and can be 
found at
http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/00469256.htm

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