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Channel 25 enhances snowstorm coverage

adamg — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:57:19 +0000

Realizing that bending down, picking up some snow and making a snowball is such a tired snowstorm cliche, a reporter at Channel 25 has found an improved way to alert us to the news that it's snowing. J-Mart tweets:

FOX25 has a new twist - reporter is bending down and brushing the new snow off to expose the old snow.

Oh, for Christ's sake: Fox commentator blames loss of Enchanted Village on secular humanists, First Night

adamg — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:44:17 +0000

Bob Ward makes some valid points in his rant about how much better New York does Christmas than Boston these days: We get the second-string Rockettes now and have to drive to Avon to see the Enchanted Village.

But he just can't leave bad enough alone:

How did you let it all slip away? Is Christmas really that politically incorrect? Are people really offended by the idea of Christmas? I remind you, the song is called Joy to the World, not Joy to the Christian World.

Or was it the rush to create the secular and safe First Night that began the decline of Boston's Christmas?

Channel 25 also incorrectly linked shooting to Puerto Rican festival

adamg — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:19:30 +0000

With an online headline of "Puerto Rican Festival Turns Violent." Will Channel 25 apologize like the Herald did?

Weatherman to Menino: Your math sucks

adamg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:57:27 +0000

You can only push the weatherpeople so far. Sure, they were apologizing last week, but enough's enough. When Mayor Menino complains TV meteorologists make big bucks for only being right "25% of the time," that's just going too far, at least for Channel 25 weatherman A.J. Burnett.

Burnett tweets his team correctly called seven of the last eight "sizable storms," which by his calculation is 87.5% correct - so much for Mayor Menino's "fuzzy math." Besides, he adds, that's a batting average of .875:

Ted Williams life time was .344 – he's in the HOF and preserved?!

Meteorologist's bag of shame

adamg — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:09:55 +0000

It was in the bag for Cindy Fitzgibbon at Channel 25 this morning.

Todd Gutner on Channel 4 apologizes, says he lost money, too (had to hire a babysitter so he could stay at work), David Robichaud praises him as brave.

BRA rebuts Channel 25 report before it even airs

adamg — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:04:02 +0000

Not a clue what Channel 25 and Commonwealth Magazine will be saying about some city affordable housing program, but here's the BRA's retort. OK, looks like the BRA is responding to teaser tweets from a Channel 25 reporter questioning whether city workers get an unfair advantage in a housing lottery.

Channel 25, local produce wholesaler among possible losers in Uno bankruptcy

adamg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:11:17 +0000

~~Pizzeria Uno's~~ Uno Chicago Bar and Grill that Used to Just Sell Pizza bankruptcy filing shows the West Roxbury-based chain of not-pizza places owes WFXT $64,000 and Katsiroubas Bros. $54,000. The filing, in New York bankruptcy court also shows the company owes NStar $112,000 and National Grid $95,000.

Although the Chapter 11 filing means the company remains open for business, it is closing outlets in some farflung locations such as Fairhaven and New Hampshire.

Uno's bankruptcy filing.

Channel 4 to get Foxier

adamg — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:22:21 +0000

Michael Page details how WBZ and WFXT will start sharing resources - like a helicopter and, eventually, videotaping of press conferences and the like. Page adds Channel 4 is hopeful other Boston stations will join the arrangement, which one supposes could eventually mean six reporters providing different narration for the same exact footage, at least until the news directors realize that's pretty wasteful and decide to fire everybody on staff except for one camera person and an intern. Or something.

Fox 25 somehow figures out how to get a crew to Somerville

adamg — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:52:20 +0000

Kathleen Powers posts some notes on Belinda the Pile of Sawdust and Woodchips, but you need to read the last paragraph about a Channel 25 cameraman.

Butch Stearns doesn't seem to get this 'blog' thing

adamg — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:01:54 +0000

It's one thing for a blogger to make a mistake (heck, I do it all the time). It's quite another for him to read a reply calling him out for that mistake, fix the mistake, then accuse the commenter of making things up. Then again, this is Butch Stearns on Fox25 we're talking about.

Fox25, you suck!

Ron Newman — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:59:11 +0000

It's the top of the ninth, Red Sox-Yankees, Sox up 4-3, two outs, nobody on, Papelbon pitching, full count.

What does Fox25 do? They take the game off the air and put on a NASCAR race!

Screw you, Fox25.

How much does Butch Stearns suck?

adamg — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:30:40 +0000

A whole lot, Dave Scott writes, in a round-up of local-TV coverage of last night's post-game fun:

Once again, amongst a sorry lot of local jock-sniffers and celebrators, it was FOX25's Butchy Stearns who cloaked himself in the most disgrace during a live shot with shortstop Julio Lugo between 12:45 and 1 a.m. Switching to Stearns at Fenway as Lugo let out a subtle puff of smoke from his stogie, Stearns instructed the player to, "Give me another puff on that baby. Show me."

Lugo obliged as a Nation vomited. If the Beckett F-bomb on FOX 25 last week wasn't bad enough, here was Stearns cajoling smoke out of an athlete in pornographic terms! ...

Channel 25 to start 11 p.m. newscast

adamg — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:06:10 +0000

Boston TV News gets the scoop; to start Nov. 5.

Think about the children! Hire one as a Fox 25 reporter!

adamg — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:08:05 +0000

Fox 25 News salivates as it reports on the horror that is a condom billboard across from a Catholic school - only mentioning at the very end that, you know, school's out for the summer and all.

Next up: Channel 25 reports that Catholic children might see the very same ad on the T! And then, in an exclusive report, Channel 25 reports that Catholic children might see the very same ad in a Channel 25 report about the very same ad!

The media story you might have missed

adamg — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:43:48 +0000

Yeah, yeah, Nat. But Channel 25's David Wade also left the anchordesk, although a bit less amiably - he was escorted to the door.