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Friday, August 27th, 2010The prime-time anchor team at NECN is changing after Beth Shelburne recently left the station. Shelburne, who joined NECN in 2006 and has most recently been the station’s prime-time co-anchor, is heading back to Birmingham, Alabama where she was born and raised. She will anchor the 9 and 10 PM news at WBRC-TV, the local [...]
Emmy Awards Presented
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010The 33rd Boston/New England Emmy Awards were presented early this week. WBZ/WSBK came away with the most Emmys (15), followed by WCVB (5), WFXT (4), WHDH (4), and NECN (1). Here are a few categories of note: Newscast Evening- Larger Market (Winner: WBZ) WBZ News at 11 (8/27/09) & WBZ News at 6, Kevin Osgood [...]
More from NECN
Saturday, May 1st, 2010In the midst of breaking the weather changes within NECN, another story cropped up. One of our astute readers pointed out that NECN quietly started a 4:30 AM newscast recently. I certainly hadn’t noticed, as 4:30 isn’t exactly my hour, but “First Thing in the Morning” on NECN is now the first 4:30 AM newscast [...]
Weather Changes at NECN
Sunday, April 25th, 2010A shake-up is coming to the NECN weather center. Beginning tomorrow, Matt Noyes will be the evening meteorologist, appearing on all newscasts after 4 PM. April 26 Update–> Also, as of early Monday morning, I can now confirm that Danielle Niles is the new morning meteorologist. Tim Kelley will be taking over the weekend shifts. [...]
Award Season!
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010There are several award related announcements to be made, so I am going to lump them into one post: The Radio Television Digital News Association recently announced the regional 2010 Edward R. Murrow Award winners. Here are the Boston winners from Region 10 (New England): Overall Excellence: WCVB Video Breaking News Coverage: WCVB MBTA Green [...]
NECN Going HD
Monday, January 11th, 2010As NECN goes HD this week, the station is debuting new graphics, including a new weather graphics system. TruView Max from WSI has some cool features which station meteorologists have been brushing up on recently. The weather team is also now issuing a 7 day forecast, as opposed to a 5 day forecast.
“On the Move” at WHDH & NECN
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Insiders at WHDH tell me today is reporter Grant Greenberg’s last day at the station after not having his contract renewed. Also, it recently came to my attention that Prat Thakkar is no longer with NECN.
Sports at NECN Outsourced
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Comcast SportsNet New England announced today that it is launching a new local sports news program to be aired three times a night on multiple platforms beginning December 3.The new show, called SportsNet Central, will be a 30 minute live program. As part of this overhaul to Comcast SportsNet, NECN’s sports department will cease to [...]
NECN, WMUR Win Murrow Awards
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009The national Edward R. Murrow awards were given out earlier this week, and NECN came away as a winner. Among large market stations, NECN won the “Investigative Reporting” award for its “Forgotten Fire” piece. That investigation looked into the potential of building and fire safety code violations in a deadly Newton office fire in 2000. Five [...]
Traditional Media Faces Evolution, Not Extinction
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009A new opinion survey by Fisher College and Howell Communications found that traditional media such as newspapers and television news are far from extinct in Boston. Of the survey’s 400 Greater Boston 18+ respondents, 74% said they receive the news “regularly” from TV news, 50% said they received news regularly from newspapers, and 44% said [...]
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