Archive for December, 2007
Patriots Game Draws Record Viewers
Monday, December 31st, 2007Saturday night’s Patriots game drew record local viewership. It was also the highest rated regular season football game. The game got a 49.4 household share, with turns into an average of 1,961,500 people. The most viewers, 2,184,000 of them, tuned in as the game ended at 11:15 PM. Here are some more stats provided by [...]
First Night Coverage
Friday, December 21st, 2007WBZ, the TV sponsor of First Night in Boston, will again feature lots of local coverage on New Year’s Eve. Once national programming, WBZ will go right into local coverage from Boston, anchored by Jack Williams and Lisa Hughes. Joyce Kulhawik will report from Boston Common, Jonathan Elias from the Boston Public Library, Scott Wahle [...]
Bell Back in Boston
Saturday, December 15th, 2007As many of you had hoped, Melissa Bell, former weekend WBZ-TV meteorologist, has returned to the Boston TV News scene. She has arrived at FOX 25, where she appeared tonight. I assume that this addition is due to Cindy’s departure to have her latest child, thus filling the empty slot in the weather department. To [...]
New Looks
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007WBZ-TV has given their website a slightly new look. The more organized web design has been adopted by many CBS O & O’s over the past few weeks, so I have been expecting this for some time now.
Navarro Heads to Vermont
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007NECN’s New Hampshire bureau chief Greg Navarro has left the station. Greg decided to move to WFFF-TV, which is in Burlington, Vermont. There, he is anchoring the new 10 PM Newscast which started this week. Lauren Collins of NECN has filled Greg’s position. Elissa Burnnell, also from NECN, will be the weekend anchor.