WIXT TELEVISION, INC. v. MEREDITH CORP.

No. 78 Civ 602.

506 F.Supp. 1003 (1980)

WIXT TELEVISION, INC., Plaintiff, v. MEREDITH CORPORATION and Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

December 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine & Underberg, New York City, for plaintiff WIXT Television, Inc.; Jeffrey A. Fillman, New York City, of counsel.

MacKenzie, Smith, Lewis, Michell & Hughes, Syracuse, N. Y., McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, Ill., for defendant Meredith Corp.; Raymond W. Hackbarth, Syracuse, N. Y., Samuel Weisbard, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Bond, Schoeneck & King, Syracuse, N. Y., for defendant Newhouse Broadcasting Corp.; Charles T. Beeching, Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER

MUNSON, Chief Judge.

I.

On November 20, 1978, plaintiff WIXT Television, Inc., a New York corporation, filed a private antitrust action in the Northern District of New York against two formidable communications conglomerates, Meredith Corporation and Newhouse Broadcasting Corporation. Plaintiff WIXT operates the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television affiliate in Syracuse, New York. Defendant Meredith operates...

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