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Did WBZ-TV cross the line on July 4th concerning public safety?

Fenway1912

Fenway1912

As some of you know I was working the 4th of July at the Hatch Shell.

At 9:30 the State Police gave the order to evacuate because of a possible major thunderstorm.

I have just finished watching the DVR of the local broadcast on channel 4 and it is painfully obvious that Jack Williams and Lisa Hughes were very uncomfortable leading viewers into the sing-a-long that never happened on the 4th ( they went to tape from the rehearsal ) - Ten minutes later they finally admitted what was going on.

I have been told that WBZ-AM also misled listeners but WGBH-FM did not.


At 10 PM - the CBS national feed was taped until Jennifer Hudson's second number and then everything was live but the national feed did not really mention the drama at the shell.


I believe that WBZ-TV at 9:30 should have told New York we are now handling this like a news story.

Thoughts?
 
I know what you mean they looked so worried and the next thing you know they cut back in with the full story on the weather at the last possible moment. You think they might have made mention of the weather long before it became an issue,(you know the guys in the weather office saw the storm coming) and go to the tape and or weather coverage a bit earlier then they did.
 
The "sing-a-long" must have been before I flipped over from my TiVo to WBZ, but I had it on for a while before the evacuation happened. That was right before what was supposed to be the 1812 Overture, so after an update on the evacuation and the weather situation, they played the recording of the performance from the previous night. I would think that that recording was made partly for this very reason. [The other reason being that it gave the camera crew a ready-made rehearsal opportunity, something you just can't argue with.]

Meanwhile, on CBS's national broadcast, it was pretty obvious the network was vamping til they could go live. If the heavily-edited version of the 1812 Overture and host Michael Chiklis's introduction next to a crowd that was likely nowhere near the stage weren't hints, the fact that the first commercial break came surprisingly early at 10:05 was a dead giveaway.
 
When Michael Chiklis appeared on-screen at around 10:03 P.M. EDT, there was a graphic on the screen saying "Previously Recorded".

I wonder what would have happened with CBS's coverage had the entire concert been on the network.
 
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