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Will Chet Show Up For Ch. 5 Tribute To Nate On Wednesday ?

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Wednesday, will be Natalie Jacobsen's last news broadcast on Channel 5 at 6 PM.

Wonder if Chet will show up if there is an on-air tribute to his Ex.
Here they are friendly again.
 
Chronicle devoted it's entire half hour to Natalie tonite (Tues) and Nat sat down with Mary Richardson in Nat's penthouse-type apartment overlooking Boston.

Mary asked Natalie if she and Chet remained friends. Basically, Natalie said their professional paths don't cross that much and, for that matter, neither do their personal lives. But, while they don't see or speak to each other much, they have alot of respect for each other's careers.

Of course, their one remaining link to each other is their daughter, Lindsay, who is now about 26 years old or so and quite attractive. Lindsay had a couple of soundbites on the Chronicle show.

So, no, I don't really see Chet showing up for the party although it would be nice to see him there. It's Natalie's night and he'll be overshadowed if he's there.

Natalie anchors SOLO tomorrow night at 6 (no Ed Harding...I'm sure she's thankful for that :D ). I'm expecting maybe 20 minutes of news/weather/sports (or maybe no sports) and then the entire Channel 5 staff will assemble on the set to say goodbye and Natalie will have a closing thought.

Or...something else will happen. ;D
 
It was a nice "old-fashioned" half-hour newscast to end it for Natalie with herself (solo, as it should be, without Ed Harding), Dick Albert, and Mike Lynch holding down the broadcast.

29 years after he first came to WCVB, Dickie said "Natalie, for your final newscast, I finally got the forecast right." ;)

Mike Lynch (along with Mike Dowling on tape with Red Sox co-owner Larry Lucchino) honored Nat with her own "high-five". They arranged for Natalie to be able to throw out the first pitch at an upcoming Red Sox game. And Lynchie had some nice words calling Nat everyone's "mentor, mother, friend..." etc etc

And Natalie herself had some final words during a very emotional last couple minutes (nearly breaking down a couple times) as she thanked all of us for inviting her into our homes (You're welcome, Nat).

I was sort of expecting, during the last minute or two, for the entire staff to show up behind her along with some of the old-timers like Frank Avruch, retired chief meteorologist Bob Copeland, and retired sports anchor Don Gillis but it was just Natalie as the camera panned the studio and faded to black.

Classy end for a classy woman.
 
Re: Will Chet Show Up For Ch. 5 Tribute To Nat On Wednesday ?

WMC2006 said:
I was sort of expecting, during the last minute or two, for the entire staff to show up behind her along with some of the old-timers like Frank Avruch, retired chief meteorologist Bob Copeland, and retired sports anchor Don Gillis but it was just Natalie as the camera panned the studio and faded to black.

Classy end for a classy woman.
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I was also expecting something similar to that as well. She will truely be missed. I thought that the newscast was just right, though.
 
They actually might have been there behind the scenes.

Later that night, on the 11pm broadcast, they showed us what happened "AFTER NATALIE SAID GOODBYE"....she went back to the newsroom where, it seemed, every single employee was there applauding her. Liz Brunner said that lots of former/retired Channel 5 employees came by to visit. They interviewed former 5 News Director Jim Thistle (who looked awful).

I'm guessing lots of old faves might have been there...perhaps, Clark Booth? Chuck Kraemer?? Bob Copeland?? maybe the recently retired Paul LaCamera (now at WBRU radio)? LaCamera's predecessor Jim Coppersmith?? Who knows.

It was either that night or maybe on Chronicle's special that they interviewed former 5 weekend anchor Brian Leary, another "old" face.
 
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