Channel 4

Media won't rest until all the Patriots run themselves through with swords

By adamg - 2/7/12 - 7:26 am

OMG, Matt Light and Gronk went to a party after the Super Bowl! Clutch those pearls closer to your chest, Mabel! Or as David Robichaud asks, as he wipes away a tear:

What do you think about this? Should they have been celebrating after a crushing defeat?

No port in the storm for morons?

By adamg - 6/1/11 - 9:19 pm

Donna Halper reports that at the height of the storm, Channel 4 put a guy on with a live report from hard-hit Douglas:

At first, he started giving what sounded like a reasonable eye-witness report, but then he said everything sounded like "Baba-booey, baba-booey." They cut him off immediately, but again, it shows that putting callers on the air live without first vetting them (in a crisis, that's hard to do) can lead to problems. Btw, I had no idea Howard Stern's prank callers were still out there. Stupid people-- I mean, it's a time of an emergency, people are eager to get the latest weather, and this joker takes advantage of the situation. Sad.

Turkey rains down on area weatherman

By adamg - 5/28/11 - 9:12 am

Channel 4 forecaster Joe Joyce reports on the turkey that crashed through a window and into his Cohasset home on Thursday:

It was like a rumble going on in the house. Bang, bang, lamps are crashing down like a big fight in the house.

The town animal control officer and an umbrella helped clear the bird from the house.

WBZ getting Web revamp

By adamg - 10/27/10 - 7:19 am

Michael Page alerts us that CBS is getting ready to smush all its Boston stations (Channel 4, WBZ 1030, Channel 38 and 98.5) into a single CBS Boston site with local news, sports and service-y type stuff all wrapped up under an emphasis on the CBS-ness of it all - four years after Channel 4 started calling itself WBZ again instead of CBS 4 Boston.

From this:

Current WBZ-TV Web site

To this:

New CBS Boston site

TV reporter John Henning dies

By adamg - 7/8/10 - 7:49 am

Channel 4 reports Henning died last night after a long illness.

Henning covered every statewide election in Massachusetts since 1962, and every Boston election since 1963.

He won numerous awards for his reporting on the Boston gangland wars in the 1960s, the search for the Boston Strangler, the Boston busing turmoil of the 1970s, and state budget problems.

Channel 4 saves you time by presenting a story you don't have to read past the first paragraph

By adamg - 4/15/10 - 11:38 am

No doubt there's more to this story, but if you're part of the New Busy, who has time to read everything? So thanks, WBZ-TV, for this:

The cat who got her head stuck in a storm drain in Norfolk on Wednesday has been reunited with her owner.

Channel 4 fires Ken Barlow

By adamg - 3/25/10 - 5:03 pm

But they wish him well as they send him away.