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Today's meeting follows last Wednesday's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals not to reconsider the FCC's 1969 ruling that the broadcast license for Channel Five in Boston be granted to Boston Broadcasting, Inc. (BBI...
...struggle between Boston Broadcasting, Inc. (BBI) and the Boston Herald Traveler, co-owner of WHDH-TV, for control of TV Channel Five, flared up again Tuesday when a Suffolk County grand jury indicted Nathan H. David, executive vice-president of BBI, on three counts of security violations...
...January 1969 the Federal Communications Commission (PCC) denied WHDH's application to renew its license, awarding it to BBI instead. WHDH appealed the ruling, but it was upheld by the courts. On August 20, however, the FCC requested the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reopen the entire case, in view of the various federal civil suits against David and a ruling is still pending on this request...
...unclear what effect these indictments will have on the battle for Channel 5, but Dr. John Knowies, Professor of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, who along with Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History are among the nine Harvard shareholders in BBI, said that BBI's lawyers "still believe the court's original decision will stick...
After delaying for six years, the FCC ruled in favor of BBI in May, 1969, and WHDH appealed. The case then stagnated for another 18 months until last week...