Channel 7
Reporters in the rain
By adamg - 8/28/11 - 9:46 pmIncludes the now infamous death-defying rescue of a Channel 7 reporter's hat from the angry seas in Marion Harbor.
It's not 1979 and Carson Beach isn't the Bronx
By adamg - 5/31/11 - 7:03 amAnne Allred at Channel 7 tweeted this morning:
1,000 teens show up on Carson Beach to watch rival gangs fight. I just can't get over that.
Really? Word got out on the street a major showdown was on and everybody dropped what they were doing and rushed right over to Carson Beach?
I don't buy it. There is no Cyrus of Boston gangs Pied Pipering everybody to a war council.
So why would 1,000 teens show up at Carson Beach? Because it was hot. And a holiday. And you can get there by subway.
Were there troublemakers getting into fights? Yes. Did a lot of the kids stand around and watch? You bet. Does Boston have a gang problem? Yes.
But when some moron runs onto the field at Fenway, we don't accuse all 35,000 people in the stands of being complicit, even though a lot of them are cheering him on. We shouldn't demonize every last person on that beach yesterday. Where is the outrage about the two young men who were shot to death and the four others who survived getting shot over the weekend?
There's a reason our on-air talent starts out in smaller markets
By adamg - 3/10/11 - 7:43 amLet's them work the kinks out. Here's Channel 7's Matt Lorch from his days at KHQA in Quincy, IL:
Via Deadspin.
Plow drivers are being mean to Pete Bouchard
By adamg - 12/17/10 - 10:31 pmAfter the computer models changed, again, and weatherfolks said we were no longer facing another perfect storm, the Channel 7 weatherman tweeted:
Let's see ... been called a moron, goat, loser ... all in one night. (Plow guys are a little bugged.) And winter hasn't even started!
Channel 7's response to Pete Bouchard video no laughing matter
By adamg - 2/4/10 - 9:31 amJustin Silverman discusses the legal banhammer Channel 7 is using to try to remove every last copy of the infamous Pete Bouchard measurement video - the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act:
... Under the DMCA's safe harbor provisions, websites are protected from copyright liability for hosting videos posted by users so long as they promptly remove the infringing material when notified by the copyright holder. WHDH didn't want its weatherman creating a storm, so as the copyright owner of the news program it could request that YouTube pull the video from its site.
The DMCA's notice-and-takedown mechanism puts the onus on the individual who posted the material to send a counter-notice asking that the material be put back up and usually raising some defense to copyright infringement, such as fair use. In this case there's a fairly strong argument that the 27-second clip of Bouchard is fair. The amount of the original broadcast used is very small, the purpose of the clip is to spur public discussion, and there is arguably no effect on WHDH's news market. It's likely WHDH either didn't consider fair use before ordering the clip's takedown, or it simply didn't care.
He notes there's currently a YouTube fair-use case in federal court.
Somebody's giving Pete Bouchard a hard time
By adamg - 1/25/10 - 7:21 pmCalifornia Fire News tries to get a rise out of Our Pete with this message on Twitter:
Boston weatherman Pete Bouchard we wish you well in your new endeavors at WalMart
Pete refuses to swallow the bait:
Stick to the flooding and fires folks.
Earlier:
In case you missed it.
Channel 7: Bouchard wasn't boasting
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 8:40 pmThe Herald catches up with Channel 7's general manager, who says what appeared to be a Magnum moment was actually Bouchard getting tripped up by a technical glitch:
... "It clearly wasn't intended the way people are portraying it," Wayland said. ...
Is that a weather map in Pete Bouchard's pocket, or is he just glad to see us?
By adamg - 1/20/10 - 4:41 pmUPDATE: YouTube has taken down the clip because of a "copyright claim" from Channel 7. Fail Blog still has it up, link in the comments, but in case it disappears from there, it's a capture of Bouchard talking about snow totals on Jan. 18. He points to a listing for Princeton and says "the biggest amount that I could find, almost as big as me, about nine inches." And then he glances off to the side, as if he's expecting a giant hook to come pull him off the set.
Pete Bouchard puts together a pretty impressive weather package:
Via Wicked Gay Blog.
Best weather forecast of the year
By adamg - 1/1/10 - 7:30 pmAs I type this, Channel 7 STORM FORCE warns:
Light snow will literally materialize overhead this evening.
Now that is scary stuff! Why can't we just have some nice figurative snow, materializing right on the ground?
