Licensee qualifications

[A Joseph Ross]

I'm glad to see that there is still a Phoenix website, keeping articles 
like this available.

 From my reading of the article, Joseph Kennedy may have been the power 
broker in the Herald getting the license, but it seems to have been Tip 
O'Neill who was the power broker in getting the license taken away.


On 8/12/2015 12:56 AM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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