40 years ago - Boston became a 2 newspaper town

[Kevin Vahey]

Joe - my Dad worked for WHDH-TV - the studio being built on Morrissey
Blvd was a direct cannon shot at the Globe.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:02 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
> 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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