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Has WBZ-4's Weeknight Anchor Team Adopted A Sunday-Thursday Workweek?

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Joseph_Gallant

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Tonight (Sunday, September 18th) after the Primetime Emmy Awards telecasts, WBZ-4 weeknight anchor team Lisa Hughes and Josh Binswanger co-anchored the 11 P.M. (actually about 11:03 P.M. with a short Emmy overrun) newscast.

I wonder if this was a one-time thing, to expose Hughes and Binswanger to the huge Emmy audience, or if Hughes and Binswanger are now going to work a Sunday-Thursday week every week.

I could see Hughes and Binwanger work a Sunday-through-Thursday week, given that Sunday night has the highest HUT (homes using television) level of the week and Friday the second-lowest. An increasing number of TV stations both here in Boston (WFXT-25) and elsewhere have started to have their "prime" (read: weeknights 6 and 11 P.M.) news, sports and weather anchors work a Sunday-Thursday week to take advantage of the large number of people watching TV on Sunday nights.
 
No. Just a special event cast. Just a window of opportunity to promote their news anchor team after with the big lead-in audience from a big event. 5 and 7 have all done these Sunday night special casts in the past.(Golden
Globes, Super Bowl, Oscars, etc).

Fox25 has their main anchor team working on Sunday night because
its the network's strongest line-up of the week. For CBS, Sunday night
movie of the week is still very unattractive older demos.


> Tonight (Sunday, September 18th) after the Primetime Emmy
> Awards telecasts, WBZ-4 weeknight anchor team Lisa Hughes
> and Josh Binswanger co-anchored the 11 P.M. (actually about
> 11:03 P.M. with a short Emmy overrun) newscast.
>
> I wonder if this was a one-time thing, to expose Hughes and
> Binswanger to the huge Emmy audience, or if Hughes and
> Binswanger are now going to work a Sunday-Thursday week
> every week.
>
> I could see Hughes and Binwanger work a
> Sunday-through-Thursday week, given that Sunday night has
> the highest HUT (homes using television) level of the week
> and Friday the second-lowest. An increasing number of TV
> stations both here in Boston (WFXT-25) and elsewhere have
> started to have their "prime" (read: weeknights 6 and 11
> P.M.) news, sports and weather anchors work a
> Sunday-Thursday week to take advantage of the large number
> of people watching TV on Sunday nights.
>
 
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