Licensee qualifications

[Kevin Vahey]

It was all politics and Joseph Kennedy was the power broker. If the Herald
could get Jack's book a Pulitzer Prize, Joe would deliver Channel 5. That
happened. .

But the Herald then went back to attacking the Kennedy's and the family
aligned with the Globe.

This is a good read on the entire mess

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/documents/00469256.htm



On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:20 PM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
wrote:

> I remembered the ex parte contact, but I thought that was the reason for
> the re-opening of the license proceeding.  They held a whole new proceeding
> to award the license as a new station application, rather than as a
> renewal, and WHDH was allowed to apply.  It's my memory that when the
> Commission awarded the license to Boston Broadcasters, they acknowledged
> WHDH's excellent record as a broadcaster, but said that since this was an
> original proceeding, not a renewal, WHDH got no credit for its record, and
> the things Boston Broadcasters promised to do made it the better applicant.
>
> The whole thing was simply political, I've always thought.  A Democratic
> administration taking the license away from a major Republican newspaper,
> to benefit the Democratic-oriented Globe.
>
>
> On 8/11/2015 7:22 AM, Sidney Schweiger wrote:
>
>> "I'm probably missing something, but I don't recall an issue of lying on
>> an application regarding Channel 5."
>>
>> The Herald-Traveler Corporation failed to disclose an illegal ex-parte
>> communication between an officer of the applicant and an FCC
>> commissioner...the title of Sterling Quinlan's book about the Channel 5
>> case, "The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch."  Supposedly the commissioner
>> refused to discuss the case at that lunch, but the appearance of
>> impropriety was enough to eventually deny the H-T the license.
>>
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