Channel 5

A Liveshot on a dog!

tatefox — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:41:51 -0400

A true sign the apocalypse is upon us!

Moment of Silence, Channel 5 reports Henry the dog is dead.

They were live at noon in Wayland on the "Live, Local, Late breaking "News" story!

They tried to contact the owner, but she was too distraught too talk.

Here is the link to the Newspaper story

http://www.wickedlocal.com/wayland/homepage/x1279457506

Bantering even when the camera's off

adamg — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:54:56 -0400

Brian reports that instead of seeing the ending of "Eli Stone" last night, Channel 5 viewers got to listen to pre-newscast banter:

We caught Ed Harding and the weatherman making jokes, smalltalk and discussing a baseball game. The latter practiced his weather tease three times.

LUCKILY, and I do mean luckily, Harding and the rest of the news team seemingly kept the language clean, didn't criticize anybody or say anything incriminating. ...

Black ice isn't really black

adamg — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:50:25 -0500

Mike Wankum rips the covers off that sham. He probably likes going around whispering "Santa isn't real" to little kids.

What happened to the smart, hard-hitting Channel 5 newscasts of yore?

adamg — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:37:06 -0500

Dave Alpert fondly remembers the days of Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson. Now, he writes, WCVB news sucks as much as any other local newscast, thanks in large part to sucky Ed Harding, but also just in general:

... This morning, I watched a reporter throw her clipboard on the ground and kick snow on it as a way to prove to the rest of us that there is actually snow on the ground. Do you people actually think we are really that retarded? Or is it that you are that retarded? Either way, shame on you Channel 5 Boston. ...

Area blogger on local TV

adamg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:40:20 -0500

Check out Chronicle on Channel 5 tonight to see Angela of Boston Brat discuss what it's like to be a blogging female Patriots fan:

... During the interview, I was asked various questions like how I felt about pink hats (hate 'em), who's my favorite player (Rodney), and what type of response I receive on this website from male fans. ... I really don't see why it matters if a girl likes football, but to some pig-heads it does. ...

Chronicle to do 30th-anniversary Blizzard of '78 retrospective on Thursday

adamg — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:27:54 -0500

* Can't wait - I never get tired of hearing about that storm * Oh, God, you baby boomers and your storm; shut up already * Meh

NFL throws Channel 5 a bone

adamg — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:57:43 -0500

Exclusive pre- and post-game field access, plus some playoff tickets, to make up for the station's loss of what it had thought was exclusive rights to broadcast the Patriots game.

Hey, Channel 5, was that really necessary?

adamg — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:46:24 -0500

I mean, really! Did you have to blare "STATE CHEATED WORKERS" in one of those cut-outty slider things right in the middle of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Do you think the sort of people likely to watch that show would even be allowed to stay up to see your report, which you'd already plugged the hell out of during commercial breaks? No roast beast for you!

Now hold on there, Harv

adamg — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:47:56 -0500

Steve Nadis objects to Harvey Leonard trying to whip us into a weather frenzy by showing a temperature map that extends all the way to the North Pole.

The Yiddish weather report

adamg — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:17:15 -0500

On Channel 5, Ed Harding just promised that Harvey Leonard would explain "that clump of shmutz coming our way."

Harv started his weather forecast and, when some giant blob of clouds came on the screen behind him, said: "And that SHMUTZ that Ed referred to earlier, well, here it is."