New England One reports it's for family reasons.
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Channel 7 reporter Byron Barnett, doing his live reports from some street in Somerville, finished up one report, then helped push a New Yorker having trouble getting his car down the street.
Apparently he wasn't the first, however. Jim Lokay at WCVB tweeted:
Please. I did that 2 wks ago on Boylston. And 400 others did it before me. Now, if BB could melt this stuff...
Speaking of Channel 5, Danielle Vollmar spent the morning driving around Peabody shoveling out hydrants.
Grizzled WCVB reporter Jack Harper has been covering snowstorms since probably before some of his younger colleagues - the ones who don ski goggles and shoot snowball crossbows and pretend to shovel snow - were even born.
While most of her outdoor colleagues were busy with rulers and snow brushes and snowballs this morning, WCVB's Antoinette Antonio just stood in the snow and reported what she saw around her.
Antoinio, who arrived in Boston a few months ago from Albuquerque, explains her reticence to get up close and personal with the white stuff:
Why ... you already know what snow feels like don't you? Next you'll want me to pull out a ruler and/or make a snow angel? I'd never hear the end of it from @LokayWCVB
This just in from Channel 5 about a breaking-news alert sent out to users of its mobile app and to its Twitter followers:
We'd like to apologize for sending an alert on a story about a girl who got her tongue stuck on a pole.
— WCVB-TV Boston (@WCVB) January 5, 2014
WCVB this week sued Aereo, which recently began a service to let people watch Boston TV stations, charging the company is ripping off the station's valuable local programming.
In its suit, filed in US District Court, WCVB says other companies that rebroadcast its programs do so only after paying a fee.
Frank Solensky photographed the bread aisle at the Somerville Stop & Shop this evening.
Meanwhile, Channel 5 reporters tonight warmed up for their team coverage of Snowpocalypse '13. With no snow on the ground to fashion into a snowball, Sean Kelly started a report by holding a tree branch for emphasis. Jack Harper, however, found a sand or dirt pile with a thin coating of snow, to which he could point with the ruler he of course happened to have. He was showing how high snow got in the Blizzard of '78 or something. And Ed Harding urged viewers to charge their tablets and phones now, so they can keep watching Channel 5 online if need be - apparently not thinking that if the power goes out, those viewers won't be able to use their WiFi to watch him.
Come snowmageddon or aquapocalypse, Fred Somers is ready.
News folks at other stations in town are fuming over the way WCVB's Susan Wornick got first dibs on video from an interview with Tom Menino at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.
Yes, it's bad out there - Ed Harding at Channel 5 just put his glasses on.
On Channel 5, Bianca de la Garza just advised people not to go down to the beach to look at the angry sea - right after John Atwater checked in from Scituate, where he stood by a seawall, looking at the angry sea.
John Carroll points out an interesting notice on the WCVB Web site:
WCVB-TV Channel 5's parent company, Hearst Television, is currently negotiating a renewal of its carriage agreement with various cable operators, including Metrocast, RCN, Shrewsbury Electric and Cable, Beld/Braintree Electric, Norwood Light Broadband, Argent Communications and Southern Vermont Cable.
Channel 5 reporter Cheryl Fiandaca just made the first on-air snowball of the season, out in Ashburnham - after, of course, kneeling to pick up some snow. OK, it looked more like an iceball than a snowball, which is probably why she didn't throw it at the cameraman.
Channel 5 sent John Atwater out to report from a harbor on hurricane preparations.
Question: Who are each station's designated Shelby Scotts, to be sent out for live reports walking into the wind and being strapped to poles on south-facing beaches? If, that is, the most recent track, which shows Irene could hit the Berkshires, instead of the eastern part of the state, that is?
While watching ABC tonight, I caught the "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" commercial for Sunday's episode. The show goes to Texas to help a family who lost their daughter because she was texting and driving. Justin Bieber comes on the show to sign a pledge the family created to bring awareness to the cause. It's a touching moment when the dad says that his daughter may be gone but her impact continues on...
As soon as the commercial ends, a smiling Bianca de la Garza throws out the teaser for the local news tonight with this gem: "Why the texting ban may actually be harmful at 11..."
Matt Kurkowski, who snapped this off WCVB tonight, calls it:
Literally the least helpful weather map I've ever seen.
Channel 5 reports David Ajemian was arrested in Cohasset for violating a restraining order Everett took out against him.
Innocent, etc.
John Carroll reports that three of the stories on WCVB's news at 11 last night actually had absolutely nothing to do with Boston, including one story on a dispute over a billboard "deep in the heart of the Bible Belt."
The "local live coverage you can count on" that 'CVB endlessly flogs is actually "elsewhere canned coverage you could live without."
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