A similar logo would later be adopted by then-sister radio station WBZ (1030 AM). On Air 12:00 AM WBZ News with Don Huff Up Next 5:00 AM WBZ News with Jim MacKay Full Schedule Search Is On For Man Who Left Rabid Raccoon At Methuen MSPCA Aug …
On June 6, 2008, weekend anchor/reporter Kate Merrill was appointed as 9 p.m. anchor on WSBK, along with general assignment reporting duties for the weekday 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. newscasts. Alongside the introduction of a new set and the CBS O&O graphics package in 2011, WBZ introduced a logo combining the 2006 "CBS 4" logo with the squared WBZ lettering below it. Syndicated programs currently airing on WBZ-TV include As an NBC affiliate, the station was known to preempt several hours of network programming per day—a common practice among NBC has traditionally been less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks and had to find alternate independent stations to air the various programs that WBZ-TV did not air. Its evening news team—consisting of anchors With syndicated news and tabloid programming becoming more the norm in the late 1980s and early 1990s, During the 1994–95 season, WBZ dropped late afternoon news altogether, airing Channel 4 has changed its news and station branding continuously since the affiliation switch, after having changed from its longstanding brand of In January 2006, attempting to bolster its local news ratings, WBZ reinstated its 5:00 p.m. news (with In late August 2006, WBZ-TV hired anchor Chris May from WHDH-TV, pairing him with On April 1, 2008, CBS' owned-and-operated television stations division ordered widespread budget cuts and staff layoffs from its stations.
Weiterlesen 30.10.2019 30.10 1980–1982 This article or section lacks a former logo at the moment. Lana Jones, Veteran WBZ NewsRadio 1030 Reporter, DiesLana Jones, a long-time reporter for WBZ NewsRadio 1030 in Boston, passed away suddenly Wednesday. In 2004, WBZ began using CBS's standardized branding, becoming "CBS 4".
In 1948, it began live broadcasts of Boston's two In 1994, sister station WJZ-TV in Baltimore lost its affiliation with ABC after that network announced a deal with the When Westinghouse merged with CBS outright on November 24, 1995, WBZ-TV became a CBS-owned-and-operated station (and has remained so ever since). WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 20), is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The "Circle 4" logo that replaced the original "News 4" logo in 1998 was often referred to on-air by WBZ sports anchor Bob Lobel as "The Circle 4 Ranch". As a condition of the merger, CBS had to sell After the 2000 acquisition of CBS by its former subsidiary, As a CBS O&O, WBZ-TV airs the entire CBS schedule with no preemptions except for extended breaking news coverage, as per Westinghouse's original agreement with CBS. This is partly because at the time of the switch, CBS was well behind NBC in the network ratings. 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. Both WCVB and WNEV (present-day From 2003 through 2016, WBZ produced coverage of the CBS ended its national broadcast of the event following the 2012 concert; Boston Pops executive producer On March 7, 2017, it was announced that the telecast would move to WBZ-TV has aired local sporting events over the years, that have originated either in-house, or through In the early 1960s, WBZ unveiled a new stylized "4" logo, using a distinctive font that had been designed especially for Group W. The logo became italicized in 1987, but remained the same font. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WSBK-TV (channel 38). WNEV AND WBZ NEWS OPENS - 1989 - BOSTON, MA - Duration: 1:01. As a sidebar, Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV (NBC's largest affiliate at the time) also heavily preempted NBC programming, but it spent most of the 1980s and 1990s as NBC's weakest major-market affiliate.