I haven't been inside WBZ in almost 20 years. Just wondering what has changed. What is currently in the studio where they used to tape Tom Bergeron's "People Are Talking"? I remember that only a curtain was used to seperate the People Are Talking set from the WBZ News set. Also..... is WBZ News still located in that same studio that they used 20 years ago? Thanks.
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Skynet74 said:
The building was extensively reconfigured in 1995-96, when a big addition was built on the east side (facing the heliport and the old Ground Round). The old TV newsroom was massively expanded, and the radio newsroom and studios were moved from the west side of the building (facing the parking lot and the old Mix studio building) into the new joint radio-TV newsroom on the southeast side. The main entrance was moved east into the new building, which also includes new control rooms and TV master control areas.
The old People Are Talking studio is still there, now used for local productions (sports shows, etc.) and commercial production. There was a smaller studio next to that studio, and that's where the TV news set was when I worked there in the early 90s. That stuido was chopped up during the renovation, and there's a new, smallish studio adjacent to the new newsroom that's now used for news.
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Scott Fybush said:
Ground Round? You mean the channel 68 building? And is that the restaurant referenced on the Soldiers Field Rd. jughandle sign that reads "RESTAURANT - TV STATION - NEXT RIGHT?"
Skynet74 said:
It's still SkyEye.
OMG, I must be gettin' OLD! I recall when the Ground Round was a Howard Johnson's!
Every now and then when I'd be there with my folks we'd see one of the on-air people from 'BZ drop in and pick-up their take-out. I always wanted to sit in a booth near the cash register so I'd have a good view if one of them stopped by. I do recall see Duke Wade come in one evening between casts.
Every now and then when I'd be there with my folks we'd see one of the on-air people from 'BZ drop in and pick-up their take-out. I always wanted to sit in a booth near the cash register so I'd have a good view if one of them stopped by. I do recall see Duke Wade come in one evening between casts.
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Duke Wade! There's a name out of the past. I wonder what happened to him?
Garrett said:
Behind the scenes, sure. There's less turnover there than you might imagine, and while I haven't seen a current staff list, I recognized plenty of familiar faces there on my last visit a year ago.
In fact, given that people tend to stay much longer at a union shop in a top-10 market than they do in a smaller market, the WBZ-TV of 2009 probably shares more relation to the WBZ-TV of 1985 than any of my local stations here in Rochester (market 80 and falling) do to their 1985 incarnations.
And consider this: there's probably more similarity between WBZ in 2009 and 1985 than there was between WBZ in 1985 and WBZ in 1961, 24 years earlier. That channel 4 was still doing kids shows and local game shows, and very little local news by comparison.
A quarter of a century is a long time in TV. Everybody changes.
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