Boston TV anchor shifts to web anchoring for station’s site
Steve Safran December 1st, 2006
A very interesting development at Boston’s ABC affil, WCVB: longtime anchor Jim Boyd is leaving the TV airwaves but keeping his job as an anchor. He’s going to report on stories throughout the day on the station’s website, thebostonchannel.com. Boyd, 64, was with the station when it debuted in 1972. He starts the new gig on Monday. We’re looking forward to more stations devoting this kind of resource to their websites.
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1. thedetroitchannel | December 1st, 2006 at 6:22 am
ouch!
that had to really hurt typing t-h-e-b-o-s-t-o-n-c-h-a-n-n-e-l .
god, i hope that leaves a scar.
2. invitedmedia | December 1st, 2006 at 6:40 am
great story over there right now…
“judges worry over ‘rat’ website”
says it went subscription only, but was not my experience 2 minutes ago; whosarat(com)
3. thedetroitchannel | December 1st, 2006 at 11:16 am
steve,
did i missed it earlier, or did you just add the graphic?
from what little i know about you, it wouldn’t surprise me that you know thebostonchannel will simultaneously relaunch as wcvb along with this move by an icon of the station.
it would come as no great surprise anyways because time and again tv people think they know everything about the internet (which they do not).
take for instance when thelouisvillechannel reverted to wlky, their numbers spiked beautifully (for a day or two) and since have probed lows never seen back in the day. did someone say “write your headlines for search engines”? then why not write you domain name for search engines???
i guess we’ll see come monday morning… i’m all set for the razzing from boise too!
4. Z | December 1st, 2006 at 11:23 am
In fairness to WLKY.com, it’s spent much of the past year without an on-site editor. I suspect that has much more to do with any losses than the domain name.
5. thedetroitchannel | December 1st, 2006 at 11:35 am
z, ok, that seems reasonable. but what about thenewmexicochannel? i think their numbers did almost the exact same thing.
and since you’re in the know, will wcvb make the death move monday or continue with what is working now?
6. thewcvbchannel | December 2nd, 2006 at 3:02 am
Isn’t making a veteran anchor online-only a virtual dog track? This may be WCVB’s way of running out his contract. Heresy in these parts, I know…
7. thedetroitchannel | December 2nd, 2006 at 10:18 am
sure.
that’s why they also named him a “Special Correspondent”, like they did Martha Raadatz. (gee, i hope i spelled her name right)
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