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New Weatherman at 7

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Last month we started hearing rumblings of a new meteorologist inbound at WHDH. Now, according to 7′s own website, we know that Mark Margarit will be that new face in the weather office. Well, to be fair Mark is only sort of new, since he has previously worked as a weather producer at WHDH. Most [...]

NECN Cuts Ellis

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

After 14 years with NECN, weekend anchor Tom Ellis has been layed off from the station. His final day is Saturday. Ellis told the Boston Globe that he is “disappointed, and that he feels “humiliated”. As you are aware, Ellis has worked at channels 4, 5 and 7 over the course of his Boston TV [...]

WCVB Pioneer Retires

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Jim Boyd has announced that he will retire at the end of the year. Boyd, who has been with WCVB since it first went on the air back in 1972, has hosted CityLine, anchored the Eyeopener and Midday Newscasts, and served as a General Assignment reporter during his tenure. Boyd says “it’s been a magnificent [...]

WBZ ND Heading Out

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

WBZ-TV News Director Jeff Kiernan is leaving his job of about 15 months to join WBBM-TV in Chicago. He leaves WBZ on January 16th and starts at the CBS owned station in Chicago just a few days later on the 19th.

Donaldson Resigns

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Julie Donaldson, sports reporter at WHDH, resigned today. An e-mail to staffers at 7 said that she resigned for “personal reasons”. You may remember that a few months ago Julie was off the air while she dealt with assault charges leveled against her former boyfriend. I try to leave personal issues off of this website, [...]

DTV Day Planned for Boston

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Mark your calendars…DTV Day is Tuesday December 9 in Boston. In an effort to prepare all viewers within the Boston market for the Digital Switch on February 17, 2009, local stations will increase DTV awareness and run DTV tests on Tuesday. Between the hours of 5 AM and 7:30 PM, viewers on all local stations [...]