Channel 4

Jack Williams to leave 11 o'clock news to spend more time with his wife

adamg — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:20:23 +0000

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

adamg — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:26:55 +0000

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?

adamg — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:19:03 +0000

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

adamg — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:12:47 +0000

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.

Reporter to weatherman: You screenhog!

adamg — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:40:03 +0000

WBZ names the worst over-serving bars in eastern Mass.

Milwaukee Mike — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:57:41 +0000

WBZ tackles the problem of bars over-serving in eastern Massachusetts--not everybody is impressed.

WBZ getting Web revamp

adamg — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:19:09 +0000

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:

To this:

TV reporter John Henning dies

adamg — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:49:45 +0000

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

adamg — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:38:10 +0000

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

adamg — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:03:39 +0000

But they wish him well as they send him away.

No more fulltime health reporter at Channel 4

adamg — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:10:31 +0000

WBZ doesn't renew contract with Mallika Marshall, Michael Page reports.

News that toothpaste contains alcohol spreads quickly

adamg — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:56:10 +0000

Channel 4 reporter David Robichaud tweets:

Just saw a wino with a paper bag over a tube of Crest.

Why Channel 4 has the best funeral coverage

adamg — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:30:47 +0000

Steve Garfield explains.

Live streaming of the service.

Jon Keller flunks geography

adamg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:20:59 +0000

Keller tries to make a point about western Massachusetts, but fails miserably because he has no clue where western Massachusetts starts. Lance lends him a clue: It's not Leominster or Fitchburg.

Hey, WBZ, he's not one of our punks

adamg — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:54:13 +0000

Channel 4 runs an AP report about some guy from Boston being charged with torching a Buffalo police cruiser. As the Buffalo News reports, that's the town of Boston, NY, which has a population of 7,897 (might be going to to 7,896 soon?), about 20 miles south of Buffalo.

UPDATE: The story's gone from wbztv.com.