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...BBI emphasizes the need for locally relevant programming. "Fly into any city," suggests the BBI promotional pamphlet. "Check into any hotel. Turn on the television. Chances are, at any given hour of the day or night, what-ever channel comes in view, in whatever city, the program will be very much the same as that on any other channel in any other city...
...Prominent stockholders of BBI include Dr. John Knowles, Director of Massachusetts General Hospital and Gerald Holton, Harvard physics professor. Oscar Handlin, Harvard professor of American History, is chairman of the program advisory committee. Leo Beranek, a member of the Advisory Committee for Advanced Management at the Harvard Business School, is president of BBI...
Jordan J. Baruch, a lecturer at the B-School, and Robert G. Gardner, coordinator of Light and Communications at the Carpenter Center, are other directors of BBI. F. Stanton Deland, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and Edward C. Bursk, editor and publishing director of the Harvard Business Review, are other stockholders...
...transfer of license from WHDH to BBI may also have serious financial repercussions. WHDH president Clancy maintained that the loss of broadcasting revenue would not force the parent company, Herald-Traveler Corp, to cease publication of the newspaper. But the issue is in doubt. Most of the company's $2.8 million net profit last year came from WHDH while the faltering Herald-Traveler operated at a loss...
...invited other applications. BBI was formed in response...