Archive for October, 2006
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Monday, October 30th, 2006WBZ-TV opened its new bureau in Manchester, NH on Monday October 30 as we had been reporting for the past month. CBS4, who has its main studio in Brighton, MA already opened a Worcester bureau. They are the only Boston station with this duel newsroom set up (other than Fox 25 who has a Dedham and [...]
7 Sports Gets Help
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Former WSVN-TV (Miami) sports anchor Larry Ridley will be coming to WHDH in January. WHDH announced today that Larry will fill the shift left open after Wendi Nix left the station for ESPN over the summer. That would mean he would be on Friday’s and Saturday’s. In addition, he would do feature stories for 7 sports during [...]
Lipof Goes to New York
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Phil Lipof, morning anchor/reporter for WHDH-TV will be leaving the station. He will be moving to WABC-TV in New York. He starts there on December 11. Phil’s wife, Juli Auclair, used to work for WHDH as well, however, she left the station earlier this year. UPDATE: Phil’s final 7 news appearance was today, November 26, [...]
Excellent Debate/Coverage
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006Tonight’s debate on CBS4 between the four candidates for governor was excellent. In my opinion, it was the best so far. Jon Keller had a good format. He gave all of the candidates plenty of time to state their case and go after one another. He brought up interesting issues, one’s which voters actually care about. [...]
“World News” Live from Boston
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006On Wednesday night October 25, World News with Charles Gibson will be airing live from Boston. This is the evening news program at ABC News. Local ABC station WCVB-TV’s lead anchor sat down with Charlie, to talk about his new show. If you want to watch the interview, click here.
Wedding Bells Ring at NECN
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Today’s Boston Herald reports that NECN sports guy Chris Collins got engaged! Chris reportedly popped the question to Georgia Wright, who said yes. Congratulations, Chris and Georgia!
Back Up for JC
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Last night WCVB had a freelance meteorologist on air. Fawn Boyd-Vigil works for WSI in Andover, MA. She makes some appearances on FOX news channel from time to time. She tells us that she will just fill in from time to time while JC is out with her new baby. So do not be expecting [...]
New Promotion Style
Saturday, October 21st, 2006Since Wendy McMahon was named director of creative services at CBS4 back in August, new promotions have surfaced. Over the past few weeks, a new type of TV commercial has come over TV’s all over Boston. The new CBS4 spots are funny and more relaxed than most news promos. They dig into who their anchors [...]
Inside Sky Fox
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006You may remember that over the summer we got a look inside WCVB’s Sky5. If you liked that, you will also enjoy a new quick video tour of SKY Fox, WFXT’s helicopter which is used almost every morning on the Morning Show. Pretty neat, take a look!
What was that?!?
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006Those of you who watch the modest WCVB-TV newscasts may have been surprised when you heard a certain word on last Friday’s 5 PM newscast. During a story on the murdered VT college student, a channel 5 producer could be heard dropping the F bomb. Somehow he had his mic on for all to hear. [...]
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