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It is the oldest broadcasting station in New England, and one of the oldest stations in the United States. The station also broadcast many locally produced programs over the years. [110], On December 31, 2008, WBZ let go overnight talk show host Steve LeVeille, sports anchor Tom Cuddy and Saturday night talk show hosts Lovell Dyett[111] and Pat Desmarais. As a result of the budget cuts, roughly 30 staffers were released from WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV, including longtime sports director Bob Lobel, entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik, and WSBK anchor Scott Wahle. Channel 7 continued the Lottery Live title and format with different hosts, upon its move on August 31, 1987. In addition to its main studios, the station operates two other news bureaus. In addition, Ed Carroll's contract was not renewed and in October 2005 the station hired Ken Barlow from KARE in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to replace him as chief meteorologist. In 2017, awards included Overall Excellence, Best Newscast, Excellence in Social Media, and Excellence in Writing. [23] A directional antenna array was constructed, consisting of two 520-foot- (160-meter) tall towers. [148], WBZ received the 2010 Marconi award in the legendary stations category from the National Association of Broadcasters. [8] Westinghouse felt betrayed by ABC's decision, and as a safeguard began shopping for affiliation deals for the entire Group W television unit. [129] Jordan Rich ended his weekend talk show on July 3, 2016, but continues to do feature segments for the station. Effective December 1, 1921, the U.S. government formally established regulations to define a broadcasting station, by setting aside two wavelengths — 360 meters for entertainment, and 485 meters (619 kHz) for official weather and other government reports — and requiring the stations to hold a Limited Commercial license.[13]. Eric Fisher has been named Chief Meteorologist for CBS Boston’s WBZ-TV News and will anchor weather segments weeknights at 5PM, 6PM, and 11PM, as well as WBZ-TV News at 10PM on myTV beginning on Heather Haley is the Chief Meteorologist for WVLT News. In January 2006, attempting to bolster its local news ratings, WBZ reinstated its 5:00 p.m. news (with Dr. Phil moving back to 3:00 p.m.) as part of a "mega-block" of news,[30] and dismissed its former lead anchor Josh Binswanger, leading to the return of longtime anchor Jack Williams to the evening newscasts. [42] This incarnation of WBZ-FM provided limited simulcasts of the AM station and largely had its own programming, including classical music and Ed Beech's Just Jazz program from WRVR in New York City. The broadcast master is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City. After WBZ's switch to CBS, Patriots regular season games would not air on the station again until 1998, when CBS acquired the television rights to the NFL's present AFC. It primarily preempted several of the network's morning programs, with most preempted programs appearing on independent stations in the area, including future sister station WSBK-TV and WQTV (now WBPX-TV). [101] That same day, WBZ dropped Paul Harvey after the station's contract to carry his broadcasts expired (however, despite coming under the CBS Radio banner once more, the station still maintains an affiliation with ABC News Radio);[102] in addition, the station dropped Looking at the Law, a legal advice show hosted by Neil Chayet, after its January 8, 2006, broadcast in favor of brokered financial programs. Evening enjoyed an over-13-year run, the last nine of which had it compete directly with WCVB's newsmagazine Chronicle. WBZ's on-air staff continued to change in late 2007, when longtime morning anchor Scott Wahle was reassigned and replaced by former WFXT anchor David Wade. Channel 4 provides at least grade B signal coverage to all of Rhode Island, and city-grade coverage within Providence itself as well as Fall River and New Bedford. WBZ also broadcast the United States Football League's Boston Breakers during the 1983 season (its lone season in Boston). [17] In the event's first decade on the station, the 10:00 p.m. [11] It was located at the company's East Springfield facility on Page Boulevard. [14] However, WBZ's priority is not widely recognized,[15] when compared to other stations with earlier heritages, in particular KDKA, WWJ in Detroit, and KQW in San Jose, California (now KCBS in San Francisco). [39], WBZ became an affiliate of ABC Radio on January 1, 1980;[37] ABC was the descendant of the Blue Network, which WBZ had dropped 38 years earlier. BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — A winter weather advisory is in effect in Massachusetts as the region is expected to be hit with 3 to 7 inches of snow. A temporary transmitter was installed using a short, makeshift tower at the studio site and later on the original tower of WEEI-FM (now WBGB) in Malden. It kept this logo for over 30 years until it unveiled its first "News 4 New England" logo in September 1996, a year and a half after the switch from NBC to CBS. By 1978, Mainella, who had been the host of Calling All Sports since its inception on July 15, 1969,[38][48] had been replaced with Bob Lobel and Upton Bell. [18][20] With this change the station also began running commercials for the first time. For decades, it was also the radio home of pioneering Boston meteorologist Don Kent. Williams remained at WBZ until his retirement in June 2015, Walker gave up anchoring duties in 2005 and hosted a Sunday morning talk show for several years before leaving the station in October 2008. [106], Meanwhile, evening host Paul Sullivan was fighting a brain tumor, which was discovered on November 22, 2004—shortly before Brudnoy's death. Prior to joining Boston 25 News she was an anchor at WBZ-TV. This would continue in varied forms, usually as the newscast went to commercial break, for almost a decade. In April 1977, Evening Magazine premiered on the station. In response, WBZ began airing two hours of news between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. that fall, with the end time of the news block later being scaled back to 6:30 p.m. in 1997 (to accommodate the move of the CBS Evening News to 6:30 p.m., and the station picking up Extra for 7:00 p.m.). In response, NBC threatened to pull its programming from both WBZ-TV and WPTZ unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. The Numbers Game also aired Saturdays at 7:55 p.m. Beginning on May 1, 1987 (a few months before Lottery Live ended its original WBZ run), a new state sweepstakes, Mass Millions, was introduced, and was televised on Lottery Live each Friday. This brought Gil Santos to the station. [36] That prompted the station to program middle of the road music around the clock. As part of the SAFER Act, WBZ temporarily kept its analog channel on the air to broadcast information regarding the transition to digital television. [59] It was also late in 1985 that American Top 40 moved to WBZ from WROR (98.5 FM, now WBZ-FM), remaining on WBZ for the rest of its years as a full-service AC station, around the same time WBZ's most famous slogan, "The Spirit of New England" (made famous by a 1987 JAM Creative Productions jingle package of the same name), was introduced. The station expanded into television on June 9, 1948, when Channel 4 WBZ-TV first signed on as an NBC television affiliate. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WSBK-TV (channel 38). As the only television station that was built from the ground up by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, WBZ-TV began operations on June 9, 1948, at 6:15 p.m. with a news broadcast hosted by Arch MacDonald. [12] Despite being housed in Springfield's top hotel, the station's location in a mid-sized city rendered it somewhat difficult to attract top-flight artists. As a condition of the merger, CBS had to sell WPRI-TV (channel 12) in Providence, Rhode Island, which was acquired by CBS earlier that year. [29] The logo that was used for the "CBS 4" branding returned to the station in December 2011, but the station still brands with its call letters to this day. In the 1970s, the station aired First 4 News at 5:30 p.m., anchored initially by Jack Williams and Pat Mitchell, then by Gail Harris. [49], Beginning in the late 1960s, WBZ made a major push into live play-by-play sports. [38], WBZ-TV launched a streaming news service, CBSN Boston (a localized version of the national CBSN service) on September 24, 2019, as part of a rollout of similar services across the CBS-owned stations. In 1996, WBZ-TV became the first former Group W television station to drop the classic Group W font. Ed Walsh retired after four years as morning news anchor on November 30, 2010;[120] Rod Fritz then took over as interim anchor (with Gary LaPierre guest anchoring for a week in early December),[121] with Joe Mathieu, formerly of Sirius XM Radio's P.O.T.U.S. This was significant, since WBZ-TV was NBC's third-largest affiliate, and second-largest in the Eastern Time Zone. [52] Starting in 1972, WBZ's football broadcasts featured the play-by-play team of Gil Santos and Gino Cappelletti. [17] But the station still had difficulty reaching Boston listeners. The move was done in the hopes of re-emphasizing WBZ-TV's local identity and trading on the call letters' then eight-decade history in Boston—a strategy that worked well when Piette was general manager at Minneapolis–Saint Paul sister station WCCO-TV. Underwood's contract with the station was not renewed and she left the station on March 4, 2008. On May 19, 2009, WBZ/WSBK and Fox-owned WFXT entered into a Local News Service agreement that allows the stations to share local news video, along with a helicopter for traffic reports and breaking news. On September 15, 2008, the station was in the process of upgrading its news set for high definition broadcasts. channel, taking over on May 16, 2011. The 4:00 p.m. newscast was discontinued later in 2006. During the station's 6:00 p.m. newscast, graphic slides featuring the Lottery and The Numbers Game logos would appear with the nightly results from the Boston and Tri-State (Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) regions. [82] Bob Lobel (by now WBZ-TV's sports director) and Upton Bell returned to the station on May 17, 1997 for a Sunday night sports show (with Calling All Sports moving to Saturdays). [117] (The station simulcast WBZ-FM's broadcast of Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals between the Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks, allowing fans in areas of New England not served by a Bruins radio network affiliate to hear the game;[118] additionally, WBZ briefly carried Bruins games that conflict with WBZ-FM's Patriots broadcasts, a function that has since moved to WZLX. The Celtics left WBZ after the team's 1980-81 NBA Championship season. [48] Also heard were Jerry Williams in the evenings and Larry Glick's overnight show (the latter two held the same popular shifts at WMEX years earlier). [114] While Jordan Rich retained his weekend overnight show, the 2–5 a.m. portion of the program began to be simulcast on sister station WCCO in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. Three of the Patriots' Super Bowl appearances—XX, XXXVIII and LIII—were televised by WBZ. The 4:00 p.m. newscast was an hour long; the 5:00 p.m. hour was then given to Dr. Phil,[25] a scheduling prompted by a contractual prohibition on scheduling Dr. Phil directly against The Oprah Winfrey Show,[26] as well as the success of a similar move by Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV.[25]. [23] At the same time WBZA was transferred from Boston to using the East Springfield transmitter, which now operated with 1,000 watts and relayed WBZ's programming to an area that was inadequately served by the Millis transmitter. [20], On March 7, 2017, it was announced that the telecast would move to Bloomberg Television in 2017, as part of a new sponsorship deal between the Boston Pops, Eaton Vance, and Bloomberg L.P.[21][22] The 2018 edition was simulcast by WHDH.[23]. As one of the area’s most familiar and trusted news anchors, Sara has led coverage in Boston since 2000. The towers continued to stand atop the former Westinghouse plant in East Springfield for five more decades, until their removal on November 5, 2011 to accommodate redevelopment at the site of the factory. WNEV/WHDH aired Lottery Live for seven seasons, until new ownership terminated the contract, upon which WCVB had their turn to air the games (from 1994 to 1998). 1 = Part 15 station with notability. In November 1920, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company established its first broadcasting station, KDKA, located in its plant in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [12][18] Efforts were soon made to change WBZA to a synchronous repeater, transmitting on the same frequency as WBZ, 900 kHz, but the process proved difficult, as the two transmitters often interfered with each other, even in Boston. Eleven years after leaving its original station, Lottery Live returned to WBZ on May 20, 1998, with longtime host Dawn Hayes (from the WNEV/WHDH era) still at the helm. The Boston market's third network affiliation switch took place on January 2, 1995. The "CBS 4" branding was phased out during the first quarter of 2007 and in February 2007, the station's newscast title was reverted from CBS 4 News to WBZ News. [147] Carl DeSuze became the fourth inductee (and the first to be inducted posthumously) on September 19, 2011, coinciding with WBZ's 90th anniversary. The new look, plus a greater emphasis on "hard news" coverage, are changes which the station believed would help regain viewership it had lost to rival station WCVB. WBZ (1030 AM) is a Class A clear channel radio station licensed in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously Westinghouse had financed its stations through the profits from radio receiver sales. [5] However, in 1964, the FCC nullified the NBC-RKO trade and ordered the NBC-Westinghouse swap reversed without NBC realizing any profit on the deal. [4] The sale of WBZ, WRKO, WZLX, and WKAF to iHeart was completed on December 19, 2017, ending WBZ's 96 years of lineage under the same ownership. WBZ was first licensed on September 15, 1921, and was originally located in Springfield, Massachusetts, before moving to Boston in 1931. In addition, programs preempted by WBZ-TV could be seen on NBC's Providence affiliate WJAR, which provides a city-grade signal to the Boston area. [38], At the outset, WBZ's full-service radio format leaned toward middle of the road music, but also featuring an increasing amount of rock and roll. [104] LaPierre continues to be heard on the station on occasion through voiceover work. Amidst the technical changes, WBZ also began sharing its programs by network with other radio stations. The renovations lasted for at least six weeks. By some interpretations, this made WBZ America's first broadcasting station, and in 1923 the Department of Commerce, referring to WBZ, stated that "The first broadcasting license was issued in September, 1921". While CBS shareholders retained a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, separating WBZ (AM) and its sister radio stations from WBZ-TV. Due to new limited contracts permitting the local stations to carry Lottery Live for only three years at a time, WBZ moved the games to sister station WSBK-TV in 2001. Its nighttime signal covers most of eastern North America. [37] DeSuze was the station's morning man for over three decades. By early 1922, WBZ's studios were set up at the luxurious Hotel Kimball in Metro Center Springfield. [104] LaPierre was replaced on the WBZ Morning News with Ed Walsh, a former morning host at WOR in New York City who had been anchoring at WCBS,[105] starting with the 9:30 a.m. half-hour of the December 29 Morning News. Within a few years, after the demise of Top 40 on WCOP 1150 AM (now WWDJ) in 1962 and with WMEX as the lone Top 40 in Boston, WBZ switched to a full-time top 40 format. [19] Meanwhile, a combination of WBZ's growth and continued difficulties with the WBZA signal led the station to move its Boston studio to the Statler Hotel (now the Boston Park Plaza) on June 1, 1927,[18] and activate a new WBZA transmitter on June 9. [12] Because of its wide reach, the station often referred to itself as "WBZ New England", as opposed to associating itself solely with Springfield or Boston. On March 31, 1926, it was granted permission to operate with 5,000 watts. [93], For a time starting in the fall of 2001, the station relaunched the 1 p.m. hour of the Midday News as the WBZ Business Hour, with an increased focus on business news;[94] this program was similar to one on Los Angeles sister station KNX (WBZ has since returned to regular news in the 1 p.m. hour). In response to the Mass Lottery's second major game, Megabuck$, WBZ, in conjunction, created Lottery Live, a series of live and hosted minute-long machine studio drawings. [122][123] The station added a monthly one-hour interview show hosted by Mathieu, WBZ Newswatch, on January 26, 2012. Despite its overnight success, channel 4 had little interest in keeping the show as a part of its schedule, in part because the station had to give priority to the upcoming Group W-distributed talk show, The Wil Shriner Show, in the fall of 1987. 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