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Is Ed Carroll's Firing Only The Beginning??

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Joseph_Gallant

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With weeknight weather anchor Ed Carroll having been fired, and with the station still a poor third in local news ratings, the question needs to be asked: Will there be other high-profile firings at WBZ-4??

Today (September 2nd) happens to be the day before a three-day holiday weekend (Labor Day), so it's possible WBZ may make several moves today, confident that no matter how much ink they get from the Herald's "Inside Track" column (and from the Globe) tomorrow (September 3rd), few people will notice.

After all, it's no accident that firings of high-profile people (read: people whose names are known to "ordinary people", like top CEO's of major companies, radio DJ's, or local news anchors) in Corporate American often take place late on Friday afternoon, and often the Friday prior to a holiday weekend, in the hope that such news gets "buried" in low-readership Saturday newspapers, especially on a holiday weekend, where Saturday newspaper readership is even lower than on a "normal" weekend.

Would news anchors Josh Binswanger and Lisa Hughes be on the chopping block?? Might morning or weekend anchors also be in danger of termination??

Some years ago, sister station WCBS-2 New York one night abruptly fired all but one of their veteran news anchors. If my memory serves me correct, the one veteran WCBS anchor not fired was Jim Jensen, who was about to retire anyway a few months later.

Could we be seeing a similar "Massacre On Soldiers Field Road"??

This Summer, we've seen Jack Williams do some substitute anchoring on the 6 and 11 P.M. weeknight news. Might he become a permanent fixture on the 6 and 11 news, perhaps as soon as next week, and possibly without a co-anchor??
 
While anything is possible, I highly doubt that there will be a mass firing this afternoon. WCBS has made no gains since pulling the stunt and I'm sure Viacom realizes that.

> Could we be seeing a similar "Massacre On Soldiers Field
> Road"??
>
 
Joseph,
Where have you been? This is what we've been talking about and speculating ALL summer. It's doubtful any more firing will happen at all. Josh and Lisa will probably both stay at the station, simply in a different capacity.
 
With Ed Carroll's firing, this (the Friday before a holiday weekend) may be the time for more changes to be made at WBZ-4 for the reasons I speculated at the top of this thread.
 
> While anything is possible, I highly doubt that there will
> be a mass firing this afternoon. WCBS has made no gains
> since pulling the stunt and I'm sure Viacom realizes that.
>
> > Could we be seeing a similar "Massacre On Soldiers Field
> > Road"??
> >
>
Still you must admit, something must be done.
However, until they realize that Boston is a fast paced town that needs a fast paced newscaset, they will continue to lose to 7 NBC, and NewsCenter5.
Compare thier newscast of today to those of the 80's, and you see the difference. Empahsis was on a locally focused fast tracked newscast. It's that simple. You had the deep voiced anchors like Chris Chronangla and Jack Williams, paired up with reporters like Liz Walker who appealed to the urban viewers. And the newscast had a very New Englandish feel. Newcasts lead off every night with reports from Beacon Hill. WBZ had all points covered. So far, the folks at CBS Worldwide seem clueless to this. Until that changes, they can flip all the anchors they wish, change the colors of the set, change out music packages, none of it will make one bit of difference!
 
Looks like 4 has already or is ready to dump its "Worcester Bureau" as well.



> > While anything is possible, I highly doubt that there will
>
> > be a mass firing this afternoon. WCBS has made no gains
> > since pulling the stunt and I'm sure Viacom realizes that.
>
> >
> > > Could we be seeing a similar "Massacre On Soldiers Field
>
> > > Road"??
> > >
> >
> Still you must admit, something must be done.
> However, until they realize that Boston is a fast paced town
> that needs a fast paced newscaset, they will continue to
> lose to 7 NBC, and NewsCenter5.
> Compare thier newscast of today to those of the 80's, and
> you see the difference. Empahsis was on a locally focused
> fast tracked newscast. It's that simple. You had the deep
> voiced anchors like Chris Chronangla and Jack Williams,
> paired up with reporters like Liz Walker who appealed to the
> urban viewers. And the newscast had a very New Englandish
> feel. Newcasts lead off every night with reports from Beacon
> Hill. WBZ had all points covered. So far, the folks at CBS
> Worldwide seem clueless to this. Until that changes, they
> can flip all the anchors they wish, change the colors of the
> set, change out music packages, none of it will make one bit
> of difference!
>
 
> Looks like 4 has already or is ready to dump its "Worcester
> Bureau" as well.

I thought WBZ had only opened their Worcester bureau a few weeks ago.
 
They did. They're not closing it.

> I thought WBZ had only opened their Worcester bureau a few
> weeks ago.
>
 
> Looks like 4 has already or is ready to dump its "Worcester
> Bureau" as well.

Really?
And you got this info from????????
 
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