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on so on. So it was quite natural for Scottie to call me about most anything.

Go on.

Now--

So he called you--

So he called me, and what I can't quite remember is--we did make some investigations of it. The person who played the dominant role from there on out in relation to The Star and Joe Albritton was Jim Shepley. Jim had been Bureau Chief in Washington; in his position as President he had been liaison with Washington political, economic, everything--lobbying, so on so on; and he was really convinced that The Star had a future, and he did his best to convince most of us of it. And after Joe Albritton had owned it for a while, the FCC forced him into either selling The Star or selling the TV station. Well, the TV station was what made money. So Albritton quite wisely tried to unload The Star on us. He'd gotten an extension from the FCC, I think, so that he didn't have to do it very hurriedly. But by-- [slight disruption on tape] --I think it was by '76, we got into reasonably serious negotiations with Albritton--who is without a question one of the finest business