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[Kevin Vahey]

Joe thought he owned the Herald forever for brokering getting Channel 5.
The Herald didn't think that way.

Amazing thing is had the Herald gotten more more delay from the Supreme
Court to send the case back to the FCC, WCVB-TV never would have made the
air as they were broke. The H-T refused to sell the studio and transmitter
to BBI forcing them to build from scratch. Bob Bennett's book said they
could not meet payroll if delays continued and Norelco was demanding
payment. for the equipment.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:10 AM, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
wrote:

> He wouldn't have been surprised.  The Herald was always a Republican
> paper.  In any event, he apparently had little to do with getting the
> WHDH-TV license taken away.
>
> On 8/12/2015 9:09 PM, Kevin Vahey wrote:
>
> Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke in 1961 and some in the family suggested
> that his anger over negative coverage of Ted running for Senator
> contributed to the stroke.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:59 PM, A Joseph Ross < <joe@attorneyross.com>
> joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
> 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>
> 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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