Channel 5
What would the world be like without Channel 5?
By adamg - 12/17/11 - 10:08 amJohn Carroll points out an interesting notice on the WCVB Web site:
WCVB-TV Channel 5's parent company, Hearst Television, is currently negotiating a renewal of its carriage agreement with various cable operators, including Metrocast, RCN, Shrewsbury Electric and Cable, Beld/Braintree Electric, Norwood Light Broadband, Argent Communications and Southern Vermont Cable.
If negotiations are not successfully concluded before December 31, 2011, you may not be able to view WCVB on your local cable system, but you will be able to receive WCVB over the air and from other cable and satellite providers.
It's going to be a long winter
By adamg - 10/27/11 - 5:05 pmChannel 5 reporter Cheryl Fiandaca just made the first on-air snowball of the season, out in Ashburnham - after, of course, kneeling to pick up some snow. OK, it looked more like an iceball than a snowball, which is probably why she didn't throw it at the cameraman.
Best reporter assignment of the day
By adamg - 8/25/11 - 11:12 amChannel 5 sent John Atwater out to report from a harbor on hurricane preparations.
Question: Who are each station's designated Shelby Scotts, to be sent out for live reports walking into the wind and being strapped to poles on south-facing beaches? If, that is, the most recent track, which shows Irene could hit the Berkshires, instead of the eastern part of the state, that is?
Michele McPhee takes 5
By adamg - 8/4/11 - 7:49 amThe grizzled crime reporter starts next month on WCVB.
Channel 5 maybe needs to try just a wee bit harder with some of the weather graphics
By adamg - 1/20/11 - 5:43 pm
Matt Kurkowski, who snapped this off WCVB tonight, calls it:
Literally the least helpful weather map I've ever seen.
Meanwhile, would it be too much to ask for a moratorium on media use of the phrase Here we snow again?
Channel 5 news helicopter makes unscheduled landing on Boston Common
By adamg - 1/11/11 - 6:27 pm
Photo by Boston Fire Department
Nobody hurt in emergency landing in an open area by Beacon and Charles streets, the Boston Fire Department tweets. A pilot and videopgrapher were on board.
Conan O'Brien's stalker priest charged with going after Chronicle's Anthony Everett
By adamg - 11/18/10 - 7:42 pmChannel 5 reports David Ajemian was arrested in Cohasset for violating a restraining order Everett took out against him.
Innocent, etc.
Remember when local news was actually local?
By adamg - 7/20/10 - 7:59 amJohn Carroll reports that three of the stories on WCVB's news at 11 last night actually had absolutely nothing to do with Boston, including one story on a dispute over a billboard "deep in the heart of the Bible Belt."
The "local live coverage you can count on" that 'CVB endlessly flogs is actually "elsewhere canned coverage you could live without."
Ed. note: But give them credit for their extensive coverage of what turned out to be the un-tornado racing down Rte. 2 - to the point where Heather Unruh had to tell "frustrated" Bachelorette fans to stop their whining because tornadoes are a matter of life and death. Well, OK, so she did mistake Harvey Leonard for Pete Bouchard when she asked if size really matters, but really, should reporters be apologizing for reporting breaking news?
Tornado warning in northern Worcester
By adamg - 7/19/10 - 6:54 pm
Richard Beaubien captured twin lightning bolts hitting Bolton.
Maybe Leominster will still be with us in the morning. You know it's serious because Ed Harding on Channel 5 has his glasses down near the end of his nose.
Photo of the storm cell's edge.
Katken photographed a bolt over the Arboretum, after the storm moved southeast.
Johnmcboston photographed lightning over the South End.
Photos copyright Richard Beaubien, Katken and Johnmcboston, respectively. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Heather Unruh verbs the news
By adamg - 6/16/10 - 12:34 pmDSG generally likes Channel 5's Heather Unruh, except when she says things like We're efforting this story:
... No, Heather, you are not efforting the story. Nobody is efforting the story. You're working on the story. You are tracking events. You will have more details later. You are NOT efforting, because it's not a word. It is something mediocre amateurs say to sound impressive, in the vain hope than nobody will figure out that they just pulled a piece of utterly nonsensical drivel out of, well, thin air. The AP Stylebook, the bible of journalists, is the accepted, authoritative source on what is and is not a word you can use in print or on the air. I have an AP Stylebook license. Efforting is not a word, Heather. Your news director and your producer will back me up on that. ...
