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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010First it was NECN, then it was WBZ, and now WCVB will also be starting its weekday morning newscasts at 4:30 AM. Beginning Tuesday September 7, WCVB’s Eyeopener will air from 4:30 AM to 7:00 AM Monday through Friday. The weekend Eyeopener will have an hour added to its schedule, meaning it will air from [...]
Atwater Hired Full Time
Friday, August 13th, 2010WCVB-TV announced yesterday that freelance reporter John Atwater is joining Newscenter 5 as a full time reporter effective September 6. Atwater, who last worked in Philadelphia, has worked at WCVB as a freelancer since November 2009. Sorry for the delay in posting this information, but I am currently in Guatemala and will not be back [...]
Aesthetic Refresh for WBZ
Monday, August 2nd, 2010WBZ made some minor changes to its news open this week. The new open includes diamond shaped lower third features, and a slightly different musical cut. Another potential aesthetic change lies ahead for WBZ as well. NewsByte2, a television news blog out of New York, linked to WCBS-TV’s new website which is set to launch [...]
July Sweeps In
Thursday, July 29th, 2010The July sweeps period was the same old song and dance in Boston. For the sixth straight month WCVB won all newscasts in terms of total viewers. Here is the break down for total viewers Monday-Friday: 5-6 AM WCVB: 55,000 WHDH: 34,000 WFXT: 20,000 WBZ: 17,000 6-7 AM WCVB: 94,000 WHDH: 72,000 WBZ: 41,000 WFXT: [...]
Another Harding to New England
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Another member of the Harding family will soon be seen across New England airwaves. According to his once public Facebook account and WMUR-TV, Adam Harding will join WMUR-TV as a Lakes Region reporter on August 11. Adam, who is the son of WCVB-TV anchorman Ed Harding, most recently worked at KNDO/KNDU-TV in Yakima, Washington (market [...]
Boston Fixture Dies
Thursday, July 8th, 2010John Henning, a fixture in Boston television for four decades, passed away Wednesday night at age 73. Henning worked both as a reporter and as a political analyst for several Boston television stations, including WBZ, WCVB, and WNAC. He stopped reporting full time for WBZ in 2003. Read more about Henning and his numerous accolades [...]
WCVB Wins June
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010The June ratings yielded few surprises, with WCVB again coming away as the overall winner. Here are the ratings, Monday-Friday P2+. 5 AM WCVB: 60,000 WHDH: 44,000 WFXT: 24,000 WBZ: 20,000 6 AM WCVB: 97,000 WHDH: 79,000 WFXT: 55,000 WBZ: 41,000 7-9 AM WHDH (Today): 91,000 WCVB (GMA): 78,000 WFXT (Local): 60,000 WBZ (Early): 29,000 [...]
Celtics Lose, but Channel 5 Wins Big
Friday, June 18th, 2010Although the Celtics lost Game 7 and the Championship series last night, there was at least one winner in Boston: Channel 5. At 11:15 PM on Thursday night, just over 1.5 million people were turned in to Channel 5 to watch the C’s battle the Lakers. Here are the average number of viewers for each [...]
Huff Leaving WCVB for Beltway
Monday, June 7th, 2010After working at WCVB-TV for 17 years, Gail Huff will leave the station on June 25. Huff, who spent most of her time working as a reporter for the EyeOpener, says she is leaving to spend more time with her husband and daughters. Her husband, of course, is Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. She won’t be [...]
New Traffic Reporter on 5
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010As many of you have noted already, Dorothy Krysiuk has replaced Cindy Campbell as the morning traffic reporter for WCVB’s Eyeopener. Dorothy comes to Boston from WTFX (Fox 29) in Philadelphia, and is employed by Westwood One (the company that produces traffic reports for WCVB). She first appeared on NewsCenter 5′s airwaves this month, a [...]
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