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By adamg - 6/3/24 - 12:11 pm

Kate Merrill celebrates 20 years at WBZ-TV

WBZ's morning anchor Kate Merrill hadn't been on the air in a couple weeks and now the station says she's left of her own volition - just three months after she celebrated her 20th year there.

The station has already scrubbed her from its Web site. Her fans are not happy with the station.

By adamg - 5/14/24 - 10:27 pm

The Night Light Show, Dick Summer WBZ Radio 103 Boston - August, 1964

WBZ Newsradio reports that Dick Summer, who worked as a DJ at WBZ in the 1960s and 1970, where he developed an overnight talk format that he eventually brought with him to New York, has died.

Dick Summer bio by Boston radio historian Donna Halper.

By adamg - 4/11/24 - 6:19 pm

Liam Martin, who had been the morning anchor at WBZ, explains why he quit: The job was keeping him from his family:

It was a spectacular, sunny day on Cape Cod. And yet I was devastatingly sad. While my kids and wife were happily getting ready for the beach, gathering our sandcastle tools and packing up peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and juice boxes, I had quietly stepped outside as I had several times over the past few months - to cry privately. Secretly.

By adamg - 3/21/24 - 9:05 pm

My Roxbury, My Community, My Home | Sarah Anne Shaw Story

WBZ reports on the life and death of Sarah-Ann Shaw, a Roxbury native who became the city's first Black woman TV reporter.

By adamg - 11/3/23 - 9:58 am
WBZ studio building on Soldiers Field Road covered in red paint

Overnight, somebody covered the WBZ offices at 1170 Soldiers Field Rd. in Allston with blood-red paint and took the time to scrawl "Free Palestine" at one end. Monica captured the scene. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/23 - 10:59 am

Legendary WBZ-TV reporter Bill Shields has died

WBZ reports Shields, who began at WBZ in 1980, died from lung cancer.

By adamg - 8/5/22 - 11:32 pm

WBZ 11PM News - 12/19/95

WBZ reports that Bruce Schwoegler, who forecast the weather there for 33 years, has died at 80.

Schwoegler spent five straight days doing the weather during and after the Blizzard of '78, because the station's other weather people couldn't get to the station's studios on Soldiers Field Road.

Schwoegler's daughter remembers him.

By adamg - 6/4/22 - 11:38 pm

Former WBZ-TV anchor and reporter Shelby Scott has died

WBZ reports the death of the former anchor and bad-weather reporter.

By adamg - 1/29/22 - 1:28 pm
15 reporters and weather people on the screen at once

NBC Boston showed its reporting fury at noon today, putting 15 reporters and weather people on air all at once, easily topping Channel 7's 12-box: Read more.

By adamg - 8/11/21 - 1:33 pm
Rendering of proposed new buildings on Soldiers Field Road

Rendering by Gensler.

National Development and the Mount Vernon Co. today filed detailed plans for the three-building, 700,000-square-foot complex they want to build on the 6.3-acre Soldiers Field Road site that has been home to WBZ since the 1940s. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/21 - 12:45 pm
Map of WBZ site

The blue area is where life sciences would live; the pink would be WBZ's new home.

National Development told the BPDA this week it will soon file plans for a three-building, 700,000-square-foot life-sciences R&D complex at 1170 Soldiers Field Rd., where WBZ long maintained a backup AM tower and where the TV station lands its helicopter. Read more.

By adamg - 4/16/21 - 11:20 am

WBZ-TV "April Fools Storm" Blizzard 1997 Coverage

Some WBZ coverage of the April Fool's Day Blizzard back in '97. Via Adam Reilly, who says, "toughen up, everybody."

By adamg - 11/11/20 - 10:03 pm

WBZ dispatched grizzled reporter Bill Shields down to Hyde Park today in search of the unstuffed murderbird rampaging through the Westminster Avenue area. Fortunately, because of Covid-19, Shields was equipped with a microphone on a boom, with which he was able to fend off the angry avian long enough to make his escape.

By adamg - 10/19/20 - 3:30 pm
WBZ antenna

WBZ-AM antenna in its glory days, well, last December.

Earlier this month, WBZ tore down the antenna that had towered over Soldiers Field Road in Allston since its construction in 1950. Read more.

By adamg - 9/8/20 - 5:00 pm

Sunday's scissor attack on WCVB reporter Ted Wayman in Copley Square is just that latest in a series of unconnected attacks on Boston TV reporters and camerapeople since July. Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/20 - 10:55 am

WBZ reports the restaurant-chatter show is returning to TV, but only with Dan Andelman, not Dave Andelman and with paid advising by former Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson on how to not just be less racist but help support minority-owned businesses.

By adamg - 6/14/20 - 8:53 pm

WBZ-TV announced tonight it's put the Andelman brothers' restaurant show "on hiatus" as it ponders co-host Dave Andelman's inability to stop ranting about Black Lives Matters on his Facebook page for at least ten days, and whether his apology yesterday was sincere. Read more.

By adamg - 6/13/20 - 10:33 pm

Some of the BLM stylings of Dave Andelman.

Update: WBZ takes the Phantom Gourmet off the air, at least temporarily.

After people began besieging WBZ, which airs "The Phantom Gourmet," with complaints, Dave Andelman tonight apologized for a making "a mistake" - a series of Facebook posts over the past ten days taking issue with Black Lives Matter protests and vigils. Read more.

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