This made her the first female newscaster in Boston to anchor alone in the key 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. time periods. WHDH shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7 on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Jeff Kaplan Archivist. Also, WHDH aired selected Red Sox games from 1990 to 1993 as a CBS station via that network's MLB over-the-air broadcast contract, and again through NBC's limited rights to MLB's postseason from 1995 to 2000. Ellis had been named the host of IE Extra, which was a co-production of WHDH-TV and King World Productions; Ellis, thus, was employed by Boston's channel 7 yet again, albeit for the national show.
– Shaking up news in Boston (July/August 1996), BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHDH-TV, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHDH_(TV)&oldid=983322764, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, sequentially assigned to former sister station.
Chapin returned to WHDH on December 29, 2014, three years after he was replaced. A similar format was adopted by KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1994 and 1997. Sunbeam was confident that Carrigan, the 31-year-old newcomer, and the 46-year-old Sahl, by now a trusted Boston news veteran, would be the lasting lead anchor team for them, but in late July 1994, Sahl met with his legal counsel and came to an agreement over the termination of his WHDH contract. [40][41] Prior to the announcement, Ansin told The Boston Globe that he was considering challenging the planned move of NBC from WHDH, he argued that the proposed move would be in violation of conditions imposed by the FCC upon Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, as the company agreed to maintain the over-the-air availability of NBC, and not use its cable holdings to influence affiliation deals. WHDH was one of six Boston area television stations that is carried on Canadian satellite provider Bell Satellite TV and was authorized as an American over-the-air station eligible for national distribution until the network change. The WHDH-TV call sign was previously used by the original occupant of channel 5, under the ownership of the Boston Herald-Traveler, from 1957 to 1972. [70][71] It also broadcast A Boston Pops Salute to Our Heroes, which was produced in lieu of the 2020 edition of the event due to its cancellation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[72]. Bill O'Reilly, long before his national exposure on Inside Edition and Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, co-anchored NEWSE7EN Weekend in 1982–83. 7 could bring shake-up to Boston TV", Channel 7 Fights Sale Of Rival TV Station's Owner, Wants Channel 4 Deal Stopped, "Beantown Breakup – NBC Actually Leaving WHDH? The graphics initially used a "diagonal stripe" theme, soon after these graphics were replaced with a new set which incorporated glass panels.
[37][38][42] His position was supported by Senator Edward Markey; a representative of Markey stated that as a "long-time supporter of universal service and free, over-the-air local broadcasting," he planned to "closely scrutinize the impacts any deal could have on viewers in Massachusetts. On that day, personalities from WHDH-TV spoke as guests on WHDH radio.
When WHDH switched to NBC in January 1995, the morning newscast was scaled back to the traditional 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. timeslot in order to accommodate Today; a few months later, it was renamed from 7 News Morning Edition to the current Today in New England. Channel 7, which for several years had already begun a tradition of scheduling news in (previously) untraditional time periods, broke further ground again with the addition of a half-hour 4:00 p.m. newscast in June 1996, which gave Strong and Marshall additional anchor duties.
Shortly afterward, Ansin brought in news director Joel Cheatwood from his Miami flagship station WSVN. On September 15, 2009, the FCC issued a Report & Order, approving WHDH's move from channel 7 to channel 42. [5] On May 21, 1982, at around 1:00 a.m., RKO General signed off channel 7 as WNAC-TV for the final time. WYCN-LD (as WBTS-LD) was authorized to provide NBC service over Canadian pay-TV on December 20, 2016;[81] despite this decision, WHDH would remain available as an eligible station to carry in Canada even after the end of their NBC affiliation on January 1, 2017 as no petition to disqualify it has been pushed forward to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), though in most cases, WHDH would likely be dropped to carry WBTS-LD instead on most Canadian cable services. The fast-paced Sunbeam news format rejuvenated WHDH's ratings, especially after switching to NBC. Also: online protection; an inside look at Illumination Entertainment; "Jill's Steals and Deals"; a performance by Josh Groban; "Today Food"; Cyber Monday deals; a performance by Grace VanderWaal.
Topics: south carolina, john kasich, clinton, bernie sanders, republican, washington, sanders, iowa, new... 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST. [34] Following the report, Paul Magnes, WHDH's vice president and general manager, told the Boston Herald that the station still expected the NBC affiliation to be renewed. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, 7 Action News at 7 : WHDH : November 8, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST, 7 News @ 6pm : WHDH : December 26, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm EST, 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 10:00pm-11:00pm EST. Only two months into her promotion to lead anchor, Ellis declared herself a free agent, quickly accepting an offer at NBC News as a national correspondent. The anchor replacement and Wright-Ellis pairing ideas were ultimately nixed (by the 1980s, the idea of two men anchoring together was passe), in the end, Sullivan and Wright took over both the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in September. [42][44][45] On May 16, 2016, the court granted a request of Comcast to dismiss the lawsuit, Judge Richard Stearn stated the loss of over-the-air coverage "may be a matter of public concern, [but] it is not a concern that WHDH has standing to redress," and that "absent any actionable harm attributable to Comcast, it is simply an indurate consequence of doing business in a competitive and unsentimental marketplace. WNEV's news department underwent more shakeups, both in talent and identity, due to ongoing sagging ratings. NETV would eventually purchase WHDH on August 7, 1989. Also: "Secret Life of Teens"; "Today's Stress-Free Holiday"; a performance by Fergie. At times during the fall of 1994, Carrigan would be joined by a rotation of male co-anchors, including Lester Strong, Gerry Grant, and Jonathan Hall; however, promotions for these newscasts during this time featured Carrigan as sole anchor. Leah Remini; Grace VanderWaal; the cast of "Hairspray."
Dolly Parton; Jessica Chastain; Dennis Haysbert. The station, in partnership with MetroNetworks, launched the TrafficTracker truck during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Boston. Lester Holt; Alia Shawkat; Jade Chang.
"[48], On August 16, 2016, Ansin announced that he would no longer pursue the appeal against NBC, arguing that it was unlikely that the appeal would be resolved in his favor. On July 4, 2018, WHDH began to simulcast the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular yearly with Bloomberg Television, returning the event to local television after a one-year absence. The station switched to ABC in 1961, but rejoined CBS in 1972. The commitment to diversity extended itself to a series of new public affairs shows that each targeted a specific ethnic group: Urban Update (with an African-American focus and which still continues to air on WHDH), Revista Hispana, Asian Focus and Jewish Perspective.
She was replaced with Dawn Hayes, who had been the runner-up in the lottery host competition.
This made her the first female newscaster in Boston to anchor alone in the key 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. time periods. WHDH shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7 on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Jeff Kaplan Archivist. Also, WHDH aired selected Red Sox games from 1990 to 1993 as a CBS station via that network's MLB over-the-air broadcast contract, and again through NBC's limited rights to MLB's postseason from 1995 to 2000. Ellis had been named the host of IE Extra, which was a co-production of WHDH-TV and King World Productions; Ellis, thus, was employed by Boston's channel 7 yet again, albeit for the national show.
– Shaking up news in Boston (July/August 1996), BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHDH-TV, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHDH_(TV)&oldid=983322764, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, sequentially assigned to former sister station.
Chapin returned to WHDH on December 29, 2014, three years after he was replaced. A similar format was adopted by KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1994 and 1997. Sunbeam was confident that Carrigan, the 31-year-old newcomer, and the 46-year-old Sahl, by now a trusted Boston news veteran, would be the lasting lead anchor team for them, but in late July 1994, Sahl met with his legal counsel and came to an agreement over the termination of his WHDH contract. [40][41] Prior to the announcement, Ansin told The Boston Globe that he was considering challenging the planned move of NBC from WHDH, he argued that the proposed move would be in violation of conditions imposed by the FCC upon Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, as the company agreed to maintain the over-the-air availability of NBC, and not use its cable holdings to influence affiliation deals. WHDH was one of six Boston area television stations that is carried on Canadian satellite provider Bell Satellite TV and was authorized as an American over-the-air station eligible for national distribution until the network change. The WHDH-TV call sign was previously used by the original occupant of channel 5, under the ownership of the Boston Herald-Traveler, from 1957 to 1972. [70][71] It also broadcast A Boston Pops Salute to Our Heroes, which was produced in lieu of the 2020 edition of the event due to its cancellation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[72]. Bill O'Reilly, long before his national exposure on Inside Edition and Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, co-anchored NEWSE7EN Weekend in 1982–83. 7 could bring shake-up to Boston TV", Channel 7 Fights Sale Of Rival TV Station's Owner, Wants Channel 4 Deal Stopped, "Beantown Breakup – NBC Actually Leaving WHDH? The graphics initially used a "diagonal stripe" theme, soon after these graphics were replaced with a new set which incorporated glass panels.
[37][38][42] His position was supported by Senator Edward Markey; a representative of Markey stated that as a "long-time supporter of universal service and free, over-the-air local broadcasting," he planned to "closely scrutinize the impacts any deal could have on viewers in Massachusetts. On that day, personalities from WHDH-TV spoke as guests on WHDH radio.
When WHDH switched to NBC in January 1995, the morning newscast was scaled back to the traditional 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. timeslot in order to accommodate Today; a few months later, it was renamed from 7 News Morning Edition to the current Today in New England. Channel 7, which for several years had already begun a tradition of scheduling news in (previously) untraditional time periods, broke further ground again with the addition of a half-hour 4:00 p.m. newscast in June 1996, which gave Strong and Marshall additional anchor duties.
Shortly afterward, Ansin brought in news director Joel Cheatwood from his Miami flagship station WSVN. On September 15, 2009, the FCC issued a Report & Order, approving WHDH's move from channel 7 to channel 42. [5] On May 21, 1982, at around 1:00 a.m., RKO General signed off channel 7 as WNAC-TV for the final time. WYCN-LD (as WBTS-LD) was authorized to provide NBC service over Canadian pay-TV on December 20, 2016;[81] despite this decision, WHDH would remain available as an eligible station to carry in Canada even after the end of their NBC affiliation on January 1, 2017 as no petition to disqualify it has been pushed forward to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), though in most cases, WHDH would likely be dropped to carry WBTS-LD instead on most Canadian cable services. The fast-paced Sunbeam news format rejuvenated WHDH's ratings, especially after switching to NBC. Also: online protection; an inside look at Illumination Entertainment; "Jill's Steals and Deals"; a performance by Josh Groban; "Today Food"; Cyber Monday deals; a performance by Grace VanderWaal.
Topics: south carolina, john kasich, clinton, bernie sanders, republican, washington, sanders, iowa, new... 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST. [34] Following the report, Paul Magnes, WHDH's vice president and general manager, told the Boston Herald that the station still expected the NBC affiliation to be renewed. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, 7 Action News at 7 : WHDH : November 8, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST, 7 News @ 6pm : WHDH : December 26, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm EST, 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 10:00pm-11:00pm EST. Only two months into her promotion to lead anchor, Ellis declared herself a free agent, quickly accepting an offer at NBC News as a national correspondent. The anchor replacement and Wright-Ellis pairing ideas were ultimately nixed (by the 1980s, the idea of two men anchoring together was passe), in the end, Sullivan and Wright took over both the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in September. [42][44][45] On May 16, 2016, the court granted a request of Comcast to dismiss the lawsuit, Judge Richard Stearn stated the loss of over-the-air coverage "may be a matter of public concern, [but] it is not a concern that WHDH has standing to redress," and that "absent any actionable harm attributable to Comcast, it is simply an indurate consequence of doing business in a competitive and unsentimental marketplace. WNEV's news department underwent more shakeups, both in talent and identity, due to ongoing sagging ratings. NETV would eventually purchase WHDH on August 7, 1989. Also: "Secret Life of Teens"; "Today's Stress-Free Holiday"; a performance by Fergie. At times during the fall of 1994, Carrigan would be joined by a rotation of male co-anchors, including Lester Strong, Gerry Grant, and Jonathan Hall; however, promotions for these newscasts during this time featured Carrigan as sole anchor. Leah Remini; Grace VanderWaal; the cast of "Hairspray."
Dolly Parton; Jessica Chastain; Dennis Haysbert. The station, in partnership with MetroNetworks, launched the TrafficTracker truck during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Boston. Lester Holt; Alia Shawkat; Jade Chang.
"[48], On August 16, 2016, Ansin announced that he would no longer pursue the appeal against NBC, arguing that it was unlikely that the appeal would be resolved in his favor. On July 4, 2018, WHDH began to simulcast the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular yearly with Bloomberg Television, returning the event to local television after a one-year absence. The station switched to ABC in 1961, but rejoined CBS in 1972. The commitment to diversity extended itself to a series of new public affairs shows that each targeted a specific ethnic group: Urban Update (with an African-American focus and which still continues to air on WHDH), Revista Hispana, Asian Focus and Jewish Perspective.
She was replaced with Dawn Hayes, who had been the runner-up in the lottery host competition.
[32], On December 15, 2015, New England One reported, citing internal sources, that NBCUniversal had declined to renew its affiliation with WHDH, and was beginning the process of building an English-language news operation at WNEU for its assumption of the affiliation. Margie Reedy, meanwhile, remained on the noon and 5:00 newscasts until her departure that December. Wright, who had created the Live at Five format at ATV (where he had hosted it from 1982 to 1986), brought the concept to WNEV, which had him and Williams walking around a special newsroom set sans an anchor desk as they presented stories. Hayes, who was equally as appealing but with a polished, confident on-air presence, began her long run as host during this era. NETV's mission from the start was to allocate programming hours to innovative, in-house productions, in much the same way that Boston Broadcasters did when it launched WCVB-TV on channel 5 ten years earlier. WHDH (NBC) Created on.
The winner was Lynn-Andrea Waugh, familiarly known as "Andi", a 29-year-old red-haired model who had no prior on-air experience. Boston Mayor Ray Flynn declared March 12, 1990, as "WHDH Day" in Boston, celebrating the joining of the radio and television stations. The scheduling only lasted a year, as Inside Edition Extra was canceled at the end of the 1992–93 season. With channel 7's news ratings in third place, minimal help from CBS (which had been in a ratings slump since the end of the 1987–88 television season) and declining profits, Mugar was eventually prompted to sell the WHDH stations. At the time, the FCC would not allow two broadcast stations with differentiating owners in the same city to use the same call sign, so the WNEV call sign was used in its place of the original WNAC-TV call letters. round of Jeopardy! Two more WNEV/WHDH alumni would then hit the big time: reporter Miles O'Brien, a 1987 arrival to the station, left to join CNN in 1989. There were abrupt changes when Sunbeam bought the station in 1993. Carrigan, who was quickly gaining a following, then continued on alone for several weeks at a time for the next four months. During the transition, the station's newscasts were conducted in front of a green screen showing the former newsplex while renovations to that set were being done. Featured reporters were seated at assignment desks on the set, as they contributed to the fray and chatted with Wright and Williams. WHDH, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 35), is an independent television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. However, when Rosser had a meeting with Willis for what was supposed to be her contract renewal, he was told by her that instead, she would be leaving to become a professor of journalism at Northeastern University. Originally slated to premiere on September 12, 2011, the launch date of the newscast was moved up three weeks to August 22, 2011. The "Property Brothers" take on New Orleans. Other cable systems also carried WHDH, such as Citizens Cable Television in the Thousand Islands region of New York State and Bermuda CableVision. Weekend lottery hosts during the channel 7 era included Linda Ward, Linda Frantangela (both prior to 1993) and Jill Stark (1993–94), who all substituted on weekdays as well when Hayes was absent.
This made her the first female newscaster in Boston to anchor alone in the key 5:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. time periods. WHDH shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7 on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Jeff Kaplan Archivist. Also, WHDH aired selected Red Sox games from 1990 to 1993 as a CBS station via that network's MLB over-the-air broadcast contract, and again through NBC's limited rights to MLB's postseason from 1995 to 2000. Ellis had been named the host of IE Extra, which was a co-production of WHDH-TV and King World Productions; Ellis, thus, was employed by Boston's channel 7 yet again, albeit for the national show.
– Shaking up news in Boston (July/August 1996), BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WHDH-TV, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHDH_(TV)&oldid=983322764, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, sequentially assigned to former sister station.
Chapin returned to WHDH on December 29, 2014, three years after he was replaced. A similar format was adopted by KJRH-TV in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1994 and 1997. Sunbeam was confident that Carrigan, the 31-year-old newcomer, and the 46-year-old Sahl, by now a trusted Boston news veteran, would be the lasting lead anchor team for them, but in late July 1994, Sahl met with his legal counsel and came to an agreement over the termination of his WHDH contract. [40][41] Prior to the announcement, Ansin told The Boston Globe that he was considering challenging the planned move of NBC from WHDH, he argued that the proposed move would be in violation of conditions imposed by the FCC upon Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal, as the company agreed to maintain the over-the-air availability of NBC, and not use its cable holdings to influence affiliation deals. WHDH was one of six Boston area television stations that is carried on Canadian satellite provider Bell Satellite TV and was authorized as an American over-the-air station eligible for national distribution until the network change. The WHDH-TV call sign was previously used by the original occupant of channel 5, under the ownership of the Boston Herald-Traveler, from 1957 to 1972. [70][71] It also broadcast A Boston Pops Salute to Our Heroes, which was produced in lieu of the 2020 edition of the event due to its cancellation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[72]. Bill O'Reilly, long before his national exposure on Inside Edition and Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, co-anchored NEWSE7EN Weekend in 1982–83. 7 could bring shake-up to Boston TV", Channel 7 Fights Sale Of Rival TV Station's Owner, Wants Channel 4 Deal Stopped, "Beantown Breakup – NBC Actually Leaving WHDH? The graphics initially used a "diagonal stripe" theme, soon after these graphics were replaced with a new set which incorporated glass panels.
[37][38][42] His position was supported by Senator Edward Markey; a representative of Markey stated that as a "long-time supporter of universal service and free, over-the-air local broadcasting," he planned to "closely scrutinize the impacts any deal could have on viewers in Massachusetts. On that day, personalities from WHDH-TV spoke as guests on WHDH radio.
When WHDH switched to NBC in January 1995, the morning newscast was scaled back to the traditional 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. timeslot in order to accommodate Today; a few months later, it was renamed from 7 News Morning Edition to the current Today in New England. Channel 7, which for several years had already begun a tradition of scheduling news in (previously) untraditional time periods, broke further ground again with the addition of a half-hour 4:00 p.m. newscast in June 1996, which gave Strong and Marshall additional anchor duties.
Shortly afterward, Ansin brought in news director Joel Cheatwood from his Miami flagship station WSVN. On September 15, 2009, the FCC issued a Report & Order, approving WHDH's move from channel 7 to channel 42. [5] On May 21, 1982, at around 1:00 a.m., RKO General signed off channel 7 as WNAC-TV for the final time. WYCN-LD (as WBTS-LD) was authorized to provide NBC service over Canadian pay-TV on December 20, 2016;[81] despite this decision, WHDH would remain available as an eligible station to carry in Canada even after the end of their NBC affiliation on January 1, 2017 as no petition to disqualify it has been pushed forward to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), though in most cases, WHDH would likely be dropped to carry WBTS-LD instead on most Canadian cable services. The fast-paced Sunbeam news format rejuvenated WHDH's ratings, especially after switching to NBC. Also: online protection; an inside look at Illumination Entertainment; "Jill's Steals and Deals"; a performance by Josh Groban; "Today Food"; Cyber Monday deals; a performance by Grace VanderWaal.
Topics: south carolina, john kasich, clinton, bernie sanders, republican, washington, sanders, iowa, new... 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST. [34] Following the report, Paul Magnes, WHDH's vice president and general manager, told the Boston Herald that the station still expected the NBC affiliation to be renewed. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive, 7 Action News at 7 : WHDH : November 8, 2016 7:00pm-7:30pm EST, 7 News @ 6pm : WHDH : December 26, 2015 6:00pm-6:30pm EST, 7 News Special: Race to the White House : WHDH : February 9, 2016 10:00pm-11:00pm EST. Only two months into her promotion to lead anchor, Ellis declared herself a free agent, quickly accepting an offer at NBC News as a national correspondent. The anchor replacement and Wright-Ellis pairing ideas were ultimately nixed (by the 1980s, the idea of two men anchoring together was passe), in the end, Sullivan and Wright took over both the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in September. [42][44][45] On May 16, 2016, the court granted a request of Comcast to dismiss the lawsuit, Judge Richard Stearn stated the loss of over-the-air coverage "may be a matter of public concern, [but] it is not a concern that WHDH has standing to redress," and that "absent any actionable harm attributable to Comcast, it is simply an indurate consequence of doing business in a competitive and unsentimental marketplace. WNEV's news department underwent more shakeups, both in talent and identity, due to ongoing sagging ratings. NETV would eventually purchase WHDH on August 7, 1989. Also: "Secret Life of Teens"; "Today's Stress-Free Holiday"; a performance by Fergie. At times during the fall of 1994, Carrigan would be joined by a rotation of male co-anchors, including Lester Strong, Gerry Grant, and Jonathan Hall; however, promotions for these newscasts during this time featured Carrigan as sole anchor. Leah Remini; Grace VanderWaal; the cast of "Hairspray."
Dolly Parton; Jessica Chastain; Dennis Haysbert. The station, in partnership with MetroNetworks, launched the TrafficTracker truck during the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which was held in Boston. Lester Holt; Alia Shawkat; Jade Chang.
"[48], On August 16, 2016, Ansin announced that he would no longer pursue the appeal against NBC, arguing that it was unlikely that the appeal would be resolved in his favor. On July 4, 2018, WHDH began to simulcast the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular yearly with Bloomberg Television, returning the event to local television after a one-year absence. The station switched to ABC in 1961, but rejoined CBS in 1972. The commitment to diversity extended itself to a series of new public affairs shows that each targeted a specific ethnic group: Urban Update (with an African-American focus and which still continues to air on WHDH), Revista Hispana, Asian Focus and Jewish Perspective.
She was replaced with Dawn Hayes, who had been the runner-up in the lottery host competition.
