NBC plans to drop WHDH-TV at year-end

NBC plans to drop WHDH-TV at year-end

BOSTON (AP) – NBC has announced plans to drop its affiliation with Boston's WHDH-TV at the end of its current contract in December and launch a network-owned station in the city next January.

NBC said in a memo to employees Thursday that it will build out a local news team. NBC is owned by Comcast and already operates cable-television's New England Cable News and Spanish-language station Telemundo in the Boston market.

Mother of murdered journalist James Foley writing memoir
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Mother of murdered journalist James Foley writing memoir

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of murdered journalist James Foley is writing a book about her son.

Blue Rider Press announced Thursday that it had acquired the memoir by Diane Foley, whose son was a freelance reporter executed publicly by Islamic State in 2014. The book is scheduled for early 2017 and is currently untitled.

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