Later in 1986, he acquired the Boston station.
It was a news chopper from one of the Boston stations.
Boston station was once an important junction, with two lines diverging in either direction.
Immediately before joing the team he was working as a news director for a Boston station.
In that case, Boston stations will pay for the satellite time and other local stations picking up the signal will share the cost.
He has run almost 100 30-second television spot advertisements a day on Boston stations seen in New Hampshire - and many radio spots too.
It was also the first Boston station to have daily newscasts, starting with the station's very first night on the air.
WBZ was the first Boston station to have a regularly-scheduled late afternoon news program.
It continued to broadcast in black-and-white well into the 1970s, long after the Boston stations all upgraded to color capability.
As a result of the merger, the combined company was forced to sell several of its Boston stations.