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...images of the hurricane that O’Neil captured with his camera, one in particular stands out in his mind. “[The local station] WBZ T.V. tower, which was blown over and lay stretched along the banks of the Charles River, was probably the most visible casualty of Hurricane Carol,” he says...
Midway through the second quarter, a giant balloon began to grow out of the ground near mid-field, halting play and eventually capturing national headlines. At the time, WBZ-TV sportscaster Bob Lobel said it was perhaps the greatest college prank of all time. The Boston Globe’s Michael Madden agreed, calling it “the prank of pranks”, while footage of the event was broadcast nationally on CBS. This year’s Harvard-Yale game marks the twentieth anniversary of the MIT prank, an event burned in the memories of those who witnessed...
...lists the many interviews he’s given: WBZ radio, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox’s local outlet and Fox News (where he appeared with Galper), with still others yet to come...
...would have had no problem learning the latest presidential poll numbers from watching one of Boston's local newscasts, but you would have had some difficulty if you were curious about the substance and potential effects of the state's ballot questions. The PEJ survey gives credit to WBZ for having the least amount of horse race political coverage of Boston's three stations, but in Boston's market, relative success should not be mistaken for anything like actual success...
...good news for Boston viewers is that things can only get better, and the good news for Boston's newscasts is that improvements will likely only augment their Nielsen showings, which of late have not been particularly rosy for WCVB and WBZ. The question is exactly how the stations ought to go about making improvements...