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By adamg - 1/21/18 - 10:12 pm

WCVB tweeted out news of the Patriots' win tonight with a photo of a Patriots player wearing an 81 jersey diving for a ball.

Oops, the station realized pretty quickly - in part because people started wondering why they'd used a photo of Aaron Hernandez: Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/17 - 2:56 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports WCVB has hired Duke Castiglione - son of longtime Sox radio announcer Joe Castiglione - as a reporter and weekend anchor.

By adamg - 11/8/17 - 1:45 pm

Last year, on Nantucket, the former WCVB anchor said today. WBZ reports.

By adamg - 8/4/17 - 7:58 pm

Harvey Leonard on Dickie: 'A great guy in every way'

WCVB reports Albert, who reported the weather for three decades, and who was a Newton native, died of complications from pneumonia.

By adamg - 4/26/17 - 9:15 am

The Herald gets ahold of some glorious memos from a WCVB news exec ordering reporters doing outdoor liveshots to always be walking while they're talking - even if that means walking from "nowhere to nowhere."

By adamg - 4/6/17 - 12:18 am
NBC Boston reporter being shadowed by WCVB truck

PhotogBoston was loving how a WCVB truck kept intruding in one of NBC Boston's live shots Wednesday night.

By adamg - 3/14/17 - 5:29 pm
16 Channel 5 reporters and weather people on screen at once

As we've been breathlessly reporting all day, some local TV stations have waged a relentless battle today to see who could get the most on-air personnel on a screen at one time. Channel 7 threw down the opening gauntlet with an "8-box" (i.e., 8 reporters in little boxes at once), Channel 25 briefly got in the action with a 9-box, but then Channel 7 knocked them out with an 11-box - before Channel 5 topped them with a 12-box. Channel 7 caught up, but now it really looks like WCVB is determined to end this thing once and for all: Around 5 p.m., Channel 5 Executive Producer Scott Isaacs posted this screen capture of a screen-dominating 16-box display.

By adamg - 12/19/16 - 11:52 pm

WGBH reported today that all the Needham antenna problems that have plagued it, WGBX, WBZ, WCVB and WSBK are finally fixed and that all the stations are now back to full strength over the air (cable signals were never affected):

As of about 4:55am this morning, all stations are operating normally.

By adamg - 12/10/16 - 11:12 am

ANCHORMAN COMPLETE FIGHT SCENE

The Herald reports the new NBC Boston is rolling out an armor-plated mobile Doppler radar with enough firepower to punch through the toughest New England storms and crush opposing weather teams. WCVB sneers at the putative competition, noting it has Boston's only meteorologist turned anchor in JC Monahan and, of course, Harvey Leonard.

By adamg - 11/20/16 - 2:27 pm

WGBH reports it will be at least after Thanksgiving, at the earliest, before engineers can get new parts and fix the antenna problems that have been plaguing the on-air (as opposed to cable) signals of WGBH, WGBX, WGBX, WBZ, WCVB and WSBK for weeks now. Read more.

By adamg - 11/17/16 - 12:30 pm
New WCVB page

WCVB recently redesigned its Web site to feature giant graphics and type large enough to be read from outer space. Every story now gets a ginormous photo, which is especially helpful for people who have just arrived from, oh, Alpha Centauri say, and have no idea what a plate of Cheetos might look like.

By adamg - 11/16/16 - 2:53 pm

The CBC reports the province treats the tree not just as thanks, but as tourism and seafood promotion. And that includes paying WCVB $75,000 to broadcast the tree getting lit on the Common each year - and $41,000 to the city of Boston.

By adamg - 8/4/16 - 8:41 pm

WCVB reports the veteran sportscaster is recovering from surgery for a brain aneurysm.

By adamg - 6/14/16 - 1:41 pm

News One reports Phil Lipof, anchor of WCVB's 5 p.m. newscast, is departing for the new station NBC is building atop NECN as it seeks to crush current NBC affiliate WHDH.

By adamg - 5/6/16 - 7:24 am

A few days ago, WCVB reporter Mike Beaudet, aided by a team of Northeastern journalism students, reported people are throwing house parties in Allston apartments, where patrons knock back beer and worse as they dance into the morning. Read more.

By adamg - 2/22/16 - 5:49 pm

New England One reports WCVB is launching an hourlong newscast at 10 p.m. on its MeTV subchannel, anchored by Maria Stephanos, who used to do the 10 o'clock news at Channel 25, and Ed Harding, who apparently just lives at the Channel 5 studios.

By adamg - 2/1/16 - 3:30 pm

WCVB announced today that Maria Stephanos will start co-anchoring its 11 p.m. and new 7 p.m. newscasts with, of course, Ed Harding, on Thursday. Read more.

By adamg - 1/14/16 - 9:56 am
Pam Cross

News One reports on Pam Cross's departure after 35 years at the station.

The Emerson graduate's leaving comes just as the station is debuting a new 4:30 p.m. newscast that will feature 24 stories in just 12 minutes (presumably all read by Ed Harding after he inhales a couple balloons' worth of helium).

By adamg - 12/7/15 - 10:37 pm

Mike Beaudet, who left WFXT fulltime for a teaching position at Northeastern, is going back on air as an investigative reporter at WCVB. He'll continue to teach at Northeastern - and his students will help him investigate things.

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