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NEW Larry Ridley to Orlando - Former 7Sports weekender Larry Ridley has taken a position with NewsCenter5 sister station WESH in Orlando, where he will become the station's sports director. He leaves Boston after five years...
Miss CT to Learn About the Weather - Former Miss Connecticut Brittany Decker will begin the process to become a weather presenter with News8, apprenticing with their weather team with the hopes of taking over the AM shift...
7 Rakes in Ratings - Sunday night's Super Bowl was the highest rated football game ever in the Boston market, pulling in a 56.7/81 share according to Neilsen. Total viewers was 114 mil, making SB46 the most watched ever...
Baghdady Renewed at 8 - News8 anchor Sonia Baghdady has come to an agreement with the station, ending weeks of speculation fueled by a posting for her job on the station's website...
Investigative Unit for NBC CT - NBC Connecticut has created a ten-person investigative unit, hiring Chris Coffey from Austin and Sabina Kuriacose from YNN in New York. Reporters Jeff Stoecker and Monica Buchanan were reassigned. The unit is helmed by former ME Sharon Butterworth...
Matt Stairs Hired by NESN - Former baseball player Matt Stairs has been hired by NESN as a studio analyst. After a 19 year career with twelve teams, Stairs retired with the Nationals in 2011...
Sarah Wroblewski Promoted at Fox25 - Fox25 has promoted fill-in meteorologist Sarah Wroblewski to weekend met position. She came to 25 in 2010 from WBZ and replaces A.J. Burnett, whose contract was not renewed...

Tag Archive for 'Bob Halloran'

Weekend Video: “25 – 7 – 5 = ?” Edition

Published by admin on January 28, 2012. 2 Comments


Since the majority of stories that made news this week regarding Boston television were about either Fox25 or 7News, btvn decided to post a video from 1997 for this week’s Weekend Video. Fox News Boston had a lot of familiar faces on the payroll, most of whom eventually left the station for others in the market. Sports guy Bob Halloran is now at WCVB, while Pete Bouchard left Dedham for 7News a few years after this ad was aired.

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First on btvn: Eileen Curran Joins NECN

Published by admin on February 28, 2011. 1 Comment

Eileen Curran, the former reporter/fill-in anchor at WBZ and TV38, has resurfaced down the street at NECN.  Curran, whose contract was not renewed by CBS after around a decade long stint at the duopoly in November, began appearing on the rapidly expanding regional news net today.  Her first story, pertaining to sick dogs being brought to New England illegally, aired today.  According to her Facebook page, she is freelancing with the network for the time being. (Hat-tip to btvn reader mike)

The story of her non-renewal by the CBS affil had been broken on our forums back in November.  Eileen Curran had been with WBZ for around a decade, and had been anchoring weekends at WFXT before that.  Incidentally, her now-husband Bob Halloran was a sports anchor/reporter there during her tenure at channel 25.

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