Archive for January, 2007
Back to NY
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007After doing some freelance work at WHDH recently, Duke Castiglione will now move on to New York. He will freelance at WNYW-TV (Fox 5) generally three days a week in the coming weeks. He may still do some work at 7, but he will not be around as often, according to the New York Daily [...]
Project Mass…your opinions?
Monday, January 22nd, 2007As you may know, WBZ launched a new special, Project Mass. The objective is to cover stories that are important to Bay State residents. WBZ has spoken to the Governor about some of the issues which viewers have brought up. This seems like a terrific idea. After elections, so often the newly elected official is [...]
Mish Back
Monday, January 22nd, 2007Just as an FYI…Mish Michaels is back from maternity leave. She was filling in for Ken Barlow tonight.
New Graphics Package
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007Finally, after months of waiting, WHDH came out with its new graphics package! The new package is bold and much more colorful than the previous look. The text is the same which has been used on CW 56 for the past few weeks. The time/temperature bug is the same as CW 56 as well. New [...]
Congratulations Debbi!
Sunday, January 14th, 2007Today’s Boston Herald reports that FOX 25 reporter Debbi Rodman will be married this summer. The Inside Track says that she will marry construction man Angel Tsekrekas after having the question popped on New Year’s Eve.
Wankum In
Friday, January 12th, 2007An update to the story we broke about Mike Wankum coming to WCVB (read here)…Boston.com reports that Meteorologist David Epstein, who has been working the weekend morning shift, will be scaling back his time at the station. He will just be filling in from time to time. As a result, Mike Wankum will be on [...]
Tuthill Has Cancer
Sunday, January 7th, 2007The Boston Herald reports that Kelley Tuthill, an investigative reporter for WCVB, has been diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. Kelley, who has two children, received the horrible news the Friday before Christmas. She is only 36, and is determained to overcome the disease. The Hingham native will have a mastectomy sometime in the next [...]
JC Back Soon
Saturday, January 6th, 2007JC Monahan, who had a child in October, is returning from maternity leave next week some time. You may remember that Fawn Boyd-Vigil has been helping to cover at WCVB while JC was out. Tonight is her last night at 5. She will be going back to her full time WSI job. Fawn had been [...]
CBS4 Changes
Friday, January 5th, 2007Robin Hamilton and Teri Adler have both been removed from the CBS4 news team page on-line, meaning they have likely parted ways with the station. Teri has moved into real estate in metro-west. She works for Pinnacle Residential Properties. Interesting profession change…
New Years Coverage
Monday, January 1st, 2007I see an interesting pattern developing within our market. It seems that on every holiday or major event, WBZ leads the way in local coverage. This showed again in their New Year’s Eve Coverage. WBZ: Local coverage, from Worcester to Boston to New Hampshire. Checked in with New York for the ball drop, but did [...]