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Late last week the news broke that CHCH TV, a television staple here in my hometown of Hamilton, was slashing its local coverage and firing a good deal of its staff. CHCH is owned by Channel Zero via a shell company, Channel 11 L.P. (limited partnership). It was that company, which effectively covered Channel Zero's fiduciary ass, that declared bankruptcy, and so the bloodletting began.

"Pacifica Station Bombed Off Air," read the Houston Chronicle's banner headline on May 13, 1970. KPFT, Houston's fledgling community radio station, had been on the air for just two months when its transmitter was blown to smithereens. "An explosion which demolished the transmitter of Houston station KPFT-FM (Pacifica Radio) was no accident and apparently the work of experts, authorities said today," George Rosenblatt of the Chronicle wrote. "The blast occurred at 11 p.m. Tuesday. The station was playing 'Alice's Restaurant' and at the precise moment of the explosion, Arlo Guthrie was singing, 'Kill, kill, kill' as he spoofed the draft."