Week In Review: The Shifting Boston Media Landscape

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• "WHDH owner Ed Ansin, who told the Globe last month that NBC was planning the move, said he will not go quietly and has assembled a legal team to challenge the network’s decision. The media mogul said the network has told him that it may move its programming to WNEU-TV, a New Hampshire station that NBC owns and currently broadcasts Telemundo on Channel 60. WNEU would broadcast NBC Boston and Telemundo from the same transmitter, Ansin said."

• "The blunt exchanges came on the same day that Mr. Obama pledged in an Op-Ed article published by The New York Times that he would not 'campaign for, vote for or support' any candidates, including Democrats, who do not support 'common-sense' gun control measures. Taken together, the twin public-relations efforts reflect the president’s desire to demonstrate for his supporters a commitment to gun control even as he seeks to reassure gun owners that he has no intention of confiscating their weapons."

• "In proposals released this week, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said it aims to hike single-ride fares by close to 5 or 10 percent, on average. That would seem to keep the increase under a 10 percent cap the T says is required by state law. But the key word is 'average' — because there are extremes in the proposed fare increases. For some types of fares, prices would actually decrease more than 20 percent; the cost of a monthly bus pass for certain express routes, for instance, would drop from $168 to $130. In other cases, prices could go up nearly 20 percent; a monthly bus pass for regular Boston-area buses would increase from $50 to $59.75."