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tv38 sweeps gimmick

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tv38's newscast at 9:30 will have the sports guy and weather guy trading places for two nights starting tonight. lobel will be doing the weather segment and ken barlow will be doing a sportscast...viewers can go to tv38.com and vote for the best perfomance in lobel vs. barlow challenge..results will be announced next monday night....must be november sweeps time?

i haven't watched their newscast since night 1. i might check it out tonight just to see how badly lobel fumbles. if lobel loses the challenge, does it mean he's all done as a sports guy. i hope so...he's unbrearable on the 5th qtr.
 
In 1985, that would have been hilarious...having Bruce and Bob trade places. I could just see Liz losing it and laughing hysterically on the NIGHTBEAT! :D :D :D

Anyone remember when Joyce K. fell on her face (off camera) on her way to the anchor desk??? Jack somehow gracefully explained the situation, but there was no entertainment report that night! What a great run for WBZ Eyewitness News!
 
Sorry, I was tired...I know that it was called "NIGHTCAST"! I was probably thinking about the heartbeat, pulsing theme and typed beat rather than cast. It was the "heartBEAT on the nightCAST".

At the time, I always thought that they should call the noon news the "NOONCAST"! :D
 
IIRC, There was the 5:30 called "Live on 4," The 6pm hourlong newscast was called "Evening Edition." Did they have a name for the Noon show? Wasn't it called the Midday Edition, or 4 Today or something?
 
WBZ was the greatest back then. I lived in the Providence market and I still remember tuning in to see Jack, Liz, Bob, Bruce and Joyce. WBZ hit a homerun with that team!
 
Garrett said:
IIRC, There was the 5:30 called "Live on 4," The 6pm hourlong newscast was called "Evening Edition." Did they have a name for the Noon show? Wasn't it called the Midday Edition, or 4 Today or something?
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You're right...it was "Live on 4 at 5:30 with Joyce Kulhawik and Chris Conanglia(sp?)". Each day, one of them would be in the studio and the other would be doing a live shot. The announcer would say something like "This is Live on 4 at 5:30pm...the first look at today's news...now here's Joyce (or Chris)!"

As for the noon news, it was the "Midday Edition" or "Noon Edition". I remember John Henning and Pam Moore anchoring that newscast.

Then, there was the "Morning Edition" with Randy Price and Paul Cousins. They later added Lauren Thierry to the mix.
 
Skynet74 said:
WBZ was the greatest back then. I lived in the Providence market and I still remember tuning in to see Jack, Liz, Bob, Bruce and Joyce. WBZ hit a homerun with that team!
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I was a student at Brown during that time. I remember that we usually watched the Boston stations. Unfortunately, the Providence stations seemed very small market at the time. With the exception of WLNE's Weathermation, you couldn't get a decent weather forecast out of the Providence market at that time (Ghiorse was too busy conjuring up a single number and Flanders was too busy filling out medical school applications).

Oddly, WLNE got no accolades or viewers but put on one of the best newscasts in Providence when they hired Ghiorse and changed to "WLNE News". Ann, Dave, John, and Ken with Barbara over in the New Bedford bureau did a pretty good job!
 
formeraa said:
As for the noon news, it was the "Midday Edition" or "Noon Edition". I remember John Henning and Pam Moore anchoring that newscast.

Then, there was the "Morning Edition" with Randy Price and Paul Cousins. They later added Lauren Thierry to the mix.
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Didn't Shelby Scott once host the "noon edition" newscast in the 80s? That is, when she wasn't being buried in blizzards?

I used to like Gary LaPierre on the noon news a few years ago. Then there was that ill-fated experiment with Lobel and Liz doing the noon news...

Paul Cousins is heard on a few Portland radio stations doing weather nowadays, including WHOM.
 
Or how about this, I have a Betmax tape somewhere with an opening of Andy Hiller and Kasey Kaufman hosting the Weekend Nightcaset!
 
Garrett said:
Or how about this, I have a Betmax tape somewhere with an opening of Andy Hiller and Kasey Kaufman hosting the Weekend Nightcaset!
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Are you sure it's Andy and not David Wittman? I don't recall Andy ever anchoring at 4 or 7. Wittman and Kasey anchored for two years after she arrived from 'CAU in Philly. Andy has always been a reporter. But, I reserve the right to be wrong.
 
I haven't seen the tape in a while, since I no longer own a Beta (and really, who does?), but I'm pretty sure it's Andy in this one!
 
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