Frontline show will focus on Bank of America

WGBH, the local public television station, said it has scheduled a June 16 program that focuses on Bank of America Corp. and its role in the financial crisis.

(In 2004, North Carolina-based Bank of America bought FleetBoston Financial Corp. to become the largest bank in Massachusetts.)

The Frontline program, set to air June 16 at 9 p.m. on WGBH 2 locally, examines Bank of America chief executive Ken Lewis (left) and the bank's "rocky merger" with Merrill Lynch, WGBH said in a press release. Lewis was recently ousted as the bank's chairman after shareholders irate about the Merrill Lynch acquisition voted to separate the chairman's job from that of chief executive, a story in April noted.

The Frontline program is titled "Breaking the Bank."

To view a trailer from that program, please click here.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff. Lewis file photo: Haraz N. Ghanbari/AP.)