Archive for March, 2007
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Saturday, March 31st, 2007Last night, WCVB-TV was honored by the Associated Press as News Station of the Year. This is the second year in a row in which NewsCenter 5 has won the award. Earlier this year, WCVB won AP awards for best newscast, excellent breaking news videography and their coverage of the Big Dig Tunnel Disaster.
Kazakiewich Full Time
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Todd Kazakiewich, who has been a fill in reporter at WCVB for three years, has been hired as a full time reporter. Todd has been working at WFSB in Hartford as a reporter/anchor while not at Newscenter 5.
Casey Leaves 7
Friday, March 30th, 2007The revolving weather door at Channel 7. For the past year or so, weathercasters have come and left. This time, 7 is about to lose Terry Casey, who has been at the station since 1994! Terry has been on-air filling in at 7, but his main job was behind the scenes. According to the Boston [...]
TV 38 News at 9 PM
Friday, March 30th, 2007The headline is not a misprint. The Boston Globe reported today that the TV 38 news at 9:30 will now be the TV 38 news at 9:00 PM. That means that Dr. Phil will be the lead-in. The station’s GM thinks this will be a stronger lead-in than the current Jeopardy. Watch for the new [...]
Todd On in Salt Lake City
Sunday, March 25th, 2007After getting a tip from a reader that Todd Gross may have been doing some work at ABC 4 (KTVX) in Salt Lake City, UT, I did some looking around and found that he had in fact been on air there earlier this week during the morning show. The station’s executive producer tells me “Todd [...]
Muir Promoted
Friday, March 23rd, 2007ABC news reporter David Muir has been promoted to anchorman on World News Saturday. As you will remember, David went to the network from WCVB. The anchor of World News Sunday, Dan Harris, came to ABC from NECN. Story Source: Suzanne Ryan of The Boston Globe
New Anchor
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007The Hartford Courant reported today that Brandon Rudat will be joining the WHDH-TV newsteam on April 23. The California native comes to WHDH from WVIT-TV in Hartford, CT (NBC). He is currently a general assignment reported in Hartford, but will be an anchor here in the hub. The Boston Globe reports that he will anchor [...]
NESN Gets Tough
Monday, March 19th, 2007Sports producers all over Boston on Friday were hit with some surprising news. NESN (New England Sports Network) sent a MEMO to all local stations outlining new rules which must be followed in order to show NESN highlights. Of course, that means Red Sox and Bruins games. The biggest point of the memo is that [...]
Former 56er at NECN
Friday, March 16th, 2007Former WLVI reporter Kristen Caira showed up at NECN earlier this week. Of course all the CW 56 staff from WLVI was let go after Sunbeam purchased the station in December. She is one of only a handful of staffers who have remained in Boston. At this point it is unknown how often she will [...]
New Reporter
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007Keba Arnold made her reporting debut today on FOX 25 news at 5 PM.
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