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135-836: As with most U.S. lotteries, lottery games in Massachusetts require players to be at least 18 years old. Drawings are broadcast on WBZ-TV (channel 4) the CBS -station in the Boston television market. The Massachusetts Lottery is run by the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission (MSLC). The MSLC has five members: A Director of the Lottery is appointed by the Chair of the MSLC, albeit requiring approval by

270-568: A "quasi-national" game, as of 2017 it is offered in 25 states and the District of Columbia . On September 6, 1996, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, and Massachusetts began a jackpot game, then called The Big Game. The current name, Mega Millions, was adopted in 2002, with The Big Game name retired soon after. Games are $ 2 each, or $ 3 with the Megaplier option, which became available in Massachusetts in 2011. The current version of

405-505: A 5 p.m. newscast with a regular hard-news format. In the early 1980s, WBZ-TV lost its longtime spot as Boston's highest-rated news station to WCVB, but even then placed a strong second for more than a decade. Its evening news team—consisting of anchors Jack Williams and Liz Walker , the late meteorologist Bruce Schwoegler, and sportscaster Bob Lobel —was the longest-running news team in New England from 1981 until Walker moved to

540-676: A CBS-owned-and-operated station (and has remained so ever since). As a condition of the merger, CBS had to sell WPRI-TV (channel 12) in Providence, Rhode Island , which was acquired by CBS earlier that year. Channel 4 provides at least grade B signal coverage to all of Rhode Island, and city-grade coverage within Providence itself as well as Fall River and New Bedford . At the time, the FCC normally did not allow common ownership of two stations with overlapping signals, and would not even consider

675-483: A Cash Winfall bet. If the jackpot reached $ 2 million and was not won, the jackpot was "rolled down" with the secondary prizes increased. After the Boston Globe published reports of individual stores selling millions of dollars in tickets, state officials suspended the game, suspecting organized crime involvement. Investigations revealed that the profiteers were a retired couple from Michigan (who had exploited

810-525: A Lottery retailer or the Lottery itself. Prizes of $ 600 or more must be collected from the Lottery, via claim form. Prizes from $ 601 to $ 103,000 can be claimed at the Lottery's regional offices and headquarters, while prizes from $ 601 to $ 5,000 can be claimed with the Lottery's mobile app via mobile cashing. Prizes over $ 103,000 must be claimed at the Lottery's headquarters in Dorchester . Prizes up to $ 50,000 can also be claimed by mail. For instant tickets,

945-1071: A US federal court to seven counts of making threatening communications in interstate commerce. Appearing in the Sunday paper almost every week is The Boston Globe Magazine . As of 2018 , Veronica Chao is the editor, and contributors include Neil Swidey and Meredith Goldstein . Since 2004, the December issue features a Bostonian of the Year . Past winners include Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein (2004), retired judge and Big Dig whistleblower Edward Ginsburg (2005), governor Deval Patrick (2006), Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America founder and CEO Bruce Marks (2007), NBA champion Paul Pierce (2008), professor Elizabeth Warren (2009), Republican politician Scott Brown (2010), U.S. attorney Carmen Ortiz and ArtsEmerson executive director Robert Orchard (2011), Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and Kayla Harrison (2012), three people who were near

1080-416: A ball will land on a random number. Like Keno, a game is played every 4 minutes. Unlike Keno, and in fact every other draw game that the Lottery runs, there is no option for quick-picks. On July 17, 2011, Mass Cash expanded to daily drawings. 5 numbers 1 through 35 are drawn. Top prize is $ 100,000 (with a $ 1 million liability limit). The game is similar to neighboring Connecticut 's Cash 5 basic game (without

1215-553: A black box and the "CBS News Boston" logo beside it. As an NBC affiliate, the station was known to preempt several hours of network programming per day—a common practice among Group W television stations affiliated with NBC and CBS. This was significant, since WBZ-TV was NBC's third-largest affiliate, and second-largest in the Eastern Time Zone . It primarily preempted several of the network's morning programs, with most preempted programs appearing on independent stations in

1350-519: A blog made up of posts from the paper's opinion writers. In September 2011, The Boston Globe launched a dedicated, subscription-based website at bostonglobe.com. Starting in 2012, the Globe provided a printing and circulating service for the Boston Herald , and by 2013, was handling its rival's entire press run. This arrangement remained in place until 2018, ending after the acquisition of

1485-399: A competing program that was similarly structured (to be anchored by Peter Mehegan and Mary Richardson, who later became the long-running anchor team on Chronicle ), but it was WNEV who made three attempts at a Live on 4 -inspired show. First, it premiered the two-hour live talk/magazine show Look in the fall of 1982 (renamed New England Afternoon in its second and final year), it failed in

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1620-415: A contract to be general manager of the paper for two years. He would serve as the first publisher of The Boston Globe until his death in 1921, and was succeeded by four of his descendants until 1999. Originally a morning daily, the Globe began its Sunday edition in 1877. A weekly edition called The Boston Weekly Globe , catering to mail subscribers outside the city, was published from 1873 until it

1755-403: A contractual prohibition on scheduling Dr. Phil directly against The Oprah Winfrey Show , as well as the success of a similar move by Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV. Channel 4 changed its news and station branding continuously in the decade following the affiliation switch; after having changed from its longstanding brand of Eyewitness News to WBZ News 4 in 1993 (prior to the switch),

1890-549: A coordinated campaign for newspapers nationwide to respond to President Donald Trump's "enemy of the people" attacks and " fake news " rants against the media by publishing locally produced editorial responses on Thursday, August 16. Within a couple of days, an estimated 100+ newspapers had pledged to join the campaign, jumping to roughly 200 a few days later. On August 13, the Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of

2025-585: A daytime talk show with those of a traditional newscast, went on to become a trendsetter in the Boston market in the 1980s. First anchored by Gail Harris and Chris Marrou, it later had hosting assumed by many other WBZ staff members, including entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik and news anchor Chris Conangla in the mid-1980s. Live on 4 gave a loose preview of the news to be covered more in depth at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with featuring stories on lifestyle, health and entertainment topics, along with live, in-studio guests. At one point, WCVB considered launching

2160-588: A deal with the E.   W. Scripps Company to switch three of Scripps' television stations—including its Baltimore outlet, WMAR-TV —to ABC as a condition of retaining its network affiliations with WEWS-TV in Cleveland and WXYZ-TV in Detroit; CBS intended to affiliate with those two stations, as it was about to lose its longtime affiliates in those markets to Fox due to a deal with New World Communications . Westinghouse felt betrayed by ABC's decision, and as

2295-404: A few months prior to Watkins' arrival). Evening enjoyed an over-13-year run, the last nine of which had it compete directly with WCVB's newsmagazine Chronicle . In September 1990, due to a decline in the franchise's popularity and tabloid TV magazines heralding bigger ratings and revenue, Group W canceled Evening/PM , with the last WBZ broadcast airing on December 17 of that year. The program

2430-499: A greater emphasis on " hard news " coverage, are changes which the station believed would help regain viewership it had lost to rival station WCVB. Susan Walker, a broadcast professor at the Boston University , criticized the station's concurrent adoption of a standard graphics and branding scheme similar to its sister stations, which she believed put too much emphasis on WBZ being a CBS station, rather than branding itself as

2565-511: A local station. WBZ-TV launched a streaming news service, CBSN Boston (now CBS News Boston) on September 24, 2019, as part of a rollout of similar services (each localized versions of the national CBSN service) across the CBS-owned stations. The station's signal is multiplexed : WBZ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in

2700-507: A new logo with WBZ lettering and the CBS eye contained within a series of squares. CBS would extend the logo design to then-sister radio station WBZ (1030 AM) in 2010. Alongside the introduction of a new set and the CBS O&;O graphics package in 2011, WBZ introduced a logo combining the 2004 "CBS 4" logo with the squared WBZ lettering below it. However, the "squares" logo continued to be used as

2835-697: A new sponsorship deal between the Boston Pops, Eaton Vance , and Bloomberg L.P. The 2018 edition was simulcast by WHDH. WBZ-TV has aired local sporting events over the years, that have originated either in-house, or through NBC or CBS . Besides the Braves (from 1948 until the team moved to Milwaukee before the 1953 season ) and the Red Sox ( 1948 – 1957 , 1972 – 1974 , and a handful of games in 2003 and 2004 , along with certain games aired nationally on NBC from 1948 to 1989 ), WBZ-TV also broadcast

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2970-434: A new state sweepstakes, Mass Millions , was introduced, and was televised on Lottery Live each Friday. Substitute hosts during the original WBZ run of Lottery Live included Evening Magazine reporter Steve Aveson (later of New England Cable News ) and WBZ radio personality Ron Robin. The station holds the record for having the longest initial involvement with the Lottery (12 years), culminating in its decision to release

3105-438: A new subscription service hosted on Apple TV . WBZ-TV presently broadcasts 34 hours, 35 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours, 5 minutes each weekday; 4 hours, 5 minutes on Saturdays; and 5 hours, 5 minutes on Sundays). WBZ operates a Bell LongRanger 206LIV helicopter for newsgathering called "Sky Eye". In addition to its main studios, the station operates two other news bureaus. The "Worcester Bureau"

3240-476: A poker-themed game with a side bet. Jackpot Poker started on June 17, 2013 and ended on June 30, 2016 after 318,953 games, and was replaced with All or Nothing 2 weeks and 4 days later on July 18, 2016. The basic game costs $ 1, if the computer-generated "hand" is a Royal Flush, the player wins $ 25,000. Smaller prizes are for other poker hands. A $ 2 wager is eligible for the Progressive Jackpot option,

3375-486: A practice ended by editor Thomas Winship in 1966. In March 1980, the Globe published an editorial about a speech by President Jimmy Carter , which included the accidental headline " Mush from the Wimp " during part of the press run, drawing national attention. Since 1981, the editorial pages of the Globe have been separate from the news operation, as is frequently customary in the news industry . Editorials represent

3510-717: A prominent former Boston ad executive, to be CEO. As of January 2017 , Doug Franklin replaced Mike Sheehan as CEO, then Franklin resigned after six months in the position, in July 2017, as a result of strategic conflicts with owner Henry. In July 2016, the 815,000-square-foot headquarters in Dorchester was sold to an unknown buyer for an undisclosed price. The Globe moved its printing operations in June 2017 to Myles Standish Industrial Park in Taunton, Massachusetts . Also in June 2017,

3645-474: A regional paper of national distinction. He served as editor until 1984, during which time the paper won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes , the first in the paper's history. The Boston Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications . It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles Taylor. In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$ 1.1   billion, making The Boston Globe

3780-407: A replacement for All or Nothing. Meant to be similar to roulette , players can select an individual number between 1 and 36, which pays 25 times their wager upon a hit, choose all red or black or all odd or even numbers, which each pay 1.5 times their wager upon a hit, two out of the three options or all three options on a single ticket. An animated roulette-style wheel spins for each drawing, in which

3915-407: A result of the budget cuts, roughly 30 staffers were released from WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV, including longtime sports director Bob Lobel, entertainment reporter Joyce Kulhawik, and WSBK anchor Scott Wahle. Lobel left channel 4 on May 16, 2008, while Kulhawik and Wahle left on May 29, 2008, and May 30, 2008, respectively. Steve Burton would become the new sports director, while the position that Kulhawik held

4050-526: A safeguard began shopping for affiliation deals for the entire Group W television unit. Group W eventually struck an agreement to switch WBZ-TV, KYW-TV and WJZ-TV to CBS (Westinghouse's two other stations, KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and KPIX in San Francisco, were already CBS affiliates). The Boston market's third network affiliation switch took place on January 2, 1995. The NBC affiliation went to

4185-418: A secondary logo during the early 2010s, including certain promotions and on monitors in the station's news set. On March 31, 2023, WBZ debuted the "CBS News" graphics and music package, following other CBS owned and operated stations. The morning newscast was the last time the "CBS 4/WBZ" logo was used to identify the station; for the afternoon newscasts, the "CBS News" graphics debuted, with WBZ call letters in

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4320-642: A special documentary film directed by Michael Bavaro titled Rex Trailer's Boomtown featuring old clips and interviews with childhood fans such as Jay Leno , Steven Wright , Tom Bergeron and Jimmy Tingle . The broadcast master is now part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City. In April 1977, Evening Magazine premiered on the station. A weeknight magazine series that originated on San Francisco sister station KPIX-TV, it expanded to Group W's other stations in

4455-586: A story about two cancer patients, and Barnicle was forced to resign. Columnist Jeff Jacoby was suspended by the Globe in 2000 for failing to credit non-original content used in his column. In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that the article represented as showing U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq War from a city councilor's presentation before they were verified. The photos had already been found by other news organizations to be from an internet pornography site. In

4590-582: A three-way swap of network affiliations in Boston. However, in 1964, the FCC nullified the NBC-RKO trade and ordered the NBC-Westinghouse swap reversed without NBC realizing any profit on the deal. WBZ-TV retained its NBC affiliation as a result of the canceled sale. WBZ-TV (sometimes informally referred to as "BZ" both on- and off-air) was a pioneer in Boston television. In 1948, it began live broadcasts of Boston's two Major League Baseball teams,

4725-565: A tower site that was formerly owned by CBS and is now owned by American Tower Corporation (which is shared with transmitters belonging to sister station WSBK as well as WCVB-TV , WBTS-CD and WGBX-TV ). As the only television station that was built from the ground up by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation , WBZ-TV began operations 10 a.m. at June 9, 1948, with test patterns. The station's dedicatory program aired at 6:30 p.m. and featured remarks from

4860-479: A waiver for stations with overlapping city-grade signals. In 1996, WBZ-TV became the first former Group W television station to drop the classic Group W font. After the 2000 acquisition of CBS by its former subsidiary, Viacom , which effectively made the station locally owned because Viacom's parent National Amusements is based in the suburbs of Boston, WBZ-TV's operations were merged with that of Boston's UPN affiliate, WSBK-TV ; concurrently, WBZ-TV also took over

4995-664: A wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times ' parent. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial The New York Times Company stock, but by 1999 the last Taylor family members had left management. Boston.com , the online edition of The Boston Globe , was launched on the World Wide Web in 1995. Consistently ranked among the top ten newspaper websites in America, it has won numerous national awards and took two regional Emmy Awards in 2009 for its video work. The Boston Globe has consistently been ranked in

5130-573: Is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts , United States, serving as the market's CBS outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside independent WSBK-TV (channel 38). Both stations share studios on Soldiers Field Road in the Allston–Brighton section of Boston. WBZ-TV's transmitter is located on Cedar Street in Needham, Massachusetts , on

5265-595: Is located in the Worcester Plaza office tower at 440–446 Main Street in that city. The " New Hampshire Bureau" is located on Elm Street in Manchester . The station's weather radar is located at Worcester Regional Airport . Along with other CBS-owned stations, WBZ offers a web-only "@ Your Desk" newscast available live and on-demand. WBZ produces a weeknight 8 p.m. newscast for sister station WSBK. Although

5400-585: Is the Boston Herald , whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster. The newspaper is "one of the nation's most prestigious papers". In 1967, The Boston Globe became the first major paper in the U.S. to oppose the Vietnam War . The paper's 2002 coverage of the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal received international media attention and served as the basis for the 2015 American drama film Spotlight . Since February 2023,

5535-412: Is the least, and 300 games were drawn for Keno from November 24, 2004 to April 29, 2023 from 5:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. On March 31, 2021, 316 games were drawn from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., the most in a single day in the history of Keno. On April 30, 2023, it modify from 4 minutes apart of drawing to 3 minutes apart of drawing with a new record of 400 games were drawn. This game launched on January 19, 2023 as

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5670-464: The CBS Evening News to 6:30 pm, and the station picking up Extra for 7 pm). The 90-minute 5 p.m. news remained originally until June 2004, when WBZ launched a 4 p.m. newscast for the first time (to complete with WHDH's newscast in the same timeslot). The 4 p.m. newscast was an hour long; the 5 p.m. hour was then given to Dr. Phil , a scheduling prompted by

5805-503: The Eyewitness News format that had been pioneered at Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV. WBZ was the first Boston station to have a regularly-scheduled late afternoon news program. In the 1970s, the station aired First 4 News at 5:30 pm, anchored initially by Jack Williams and Pat Mitchell, then by Gail Harris. On July 21, 1979, a new format premiered in this time slot: Live on 4 , a more informal program mixing elements of

5940-649: The Philadelphia Bulletin , to form the Associated Newspapers syndicate. In the early 1900's Charles H. Taylor was responsible for making the Globe the most used Newspaper in New England. He went into greater details regarding social movements such as the Women's Suffrage Movement . While other competitors such as The Boston Post did not shine as much light on these social movements. In

6075-484: The 1812 Overture and " Stars and Stripes Forever ", as well as the fireworks over the Charles River. Live coverage of the event was broadcast in high-definition for the first time beginning in 2007. CBS ended its national broadcast of the event following the 2012 concert; Boston Pops executive producer David G. Mugar believed CBS made this decision due to poor ratings, due primarily to NBC counterprogramming

6210-402: The 1940 Massachusetts gubernatorial election , the Globe correctly projected the re-election of Republican incumbent Leverett Saltonstall , using methods first established by Taylor; rival The Boston Post called the race incorrectly for Democrat Paul A. Dever . In 1955, Laurence L. Winship was named editor, ending a 75-year period of the role being held by the paper's publishers. In

6345-475: The 2020 presidential election , but has sometimes endorsed Republicans in state and local elections, such as Charlie Baker for governor. Describing the political position of The Boston Globe editorial page in 2001, former editorial page editor Renée Loth told the Boston University alumni magazine: The Globe has a long tradition of being a progressive institution, and especially on social issues. We support woman's rights; We are pro-choice; we're against

6480-511: The Boston Marathon bombing , Dan Marshall, Natalie Stavas, and Larry Hittinger (2013), Market Basket employees (2014), and neuropathologist Ann McKee (2017). On October 23, 2006, The Boston Globe announced the publication of Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens . The glossy oversized magazine was published six times per year. The magazine ceased publication in 2018. The Globe uses "editor" as

6615-645: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Department of Justice about NBC's extortion . The threat reemerged in 1960 after NBC announced it would swap the Philadelphia stations in exchange for a competing Boston outlet, then-CBS affiliate WNAC-TV (channel 7, now defunct) and its sister radio stations, from RKO General . Approval of the RKO-NBC deal would have potentially made WBZ-TV an ABC affiliate, completing

6750-626: The Globe in January 1884, hired by Charles H. Taylor. Source: In 1998, columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign after it was discovered that she had fabricated people and quotations in several of her columns. In August of that year, columnist Mike Barnicle was discovered to have copied material for a column from a George Carlin book, Brain Droppings . He was suspended for this offense, and his past columns were reviewed. The Boston Globe editors found that Barnicle had fabricated

6885-423: The Globe moved its headquarters to Exchange Place in Boston's Financial District . In July 2022, James Dao, a senior editor with 30 years of experience at The New York Times, was named the editorial page editor, succeeding Bina Venkataraman. In November 2022, The Boston Globe announced that NPR news chief Nancy Barnes would replace Brian McGrory as editor. From September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2023,

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7020-606: The Herald by Digital First Media . In February 2013, The New York Times Company announced that it would sell its New England Media Group , which encompasses the Globe ; bids were received by six parties, including John Gormally, then-owner of WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts , another group included members of former Globe publishers, the Taylor family, and Boston Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry , who bid for

7155-513: The Massachusetts Lottery . During the station's 6 p.m. newscast, graphic slides featuring the Lottery and The Numbers Game logos would appear with the nightly results from the Boston and Tri-State (Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) regions. This would continue in varied forms, usually as the newscast went to commercial break, for almost a decade. In the spring of 1984, WBZ introduced local live lottery drawings. In response to

7290-544: The Nielsen ratings and was canceled in 1984. Three years later, WNEV tried the even more news-oriented copy New England News: Live at Five , which essentially became Boston's first proper 5 p.m. newscast, although it still featured the informal structure of Live on 4 . Although this competitor to Live on 4 drew high ratings, the format ended after only a year, due to the departure of its creator, anchor Dave Wright. From 1988 to 1991, WNEV (which became WHDH-TV in 1990) ran

7425-503: The Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting . On April 2, 2009, The New York Times Company threatened to close the paper if its unions did not agree to $ 20 million of cost savings. Some of the cost savings include reducing union employees' pay by 5%, ending pension contributions, ending certain employees' tenures. The Boston Globe eliminated the equivalent of 50 full-time jobs; among buy-outs and layoffs, it swept out most of

7560-538: The Red Sox and the Braves , broadcasts that at first were split with WNAC-TV. It was also the first Boston station to have daily newscasts, starting with the station's very first night on the air. On October 12, 1957, WBZ-TV broadcast a half-hour special program on Sputnik 1 , featuring a motion picture of the final stage of its rocket crossing the pre-dawn sky of Baltimore , shot by sister station WJZ-TV . The station

7695-440: The Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2001–2003, especially in relation to Massachusetts churches. The Boston Globe was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work and the work of other staff, one of several the paper has received for its investigative journalism, and their work was dramatized in the 2015 Academy Award-winning film Spotlight , named after the paper's in-depth investigative division. The Boston Globe

7830-725: The editor has been Nancy Barnes . The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen who jointly invested $ 150,000 (equivalent to $ 3,815,000 in 2023). The founders included Eben Dyer Jordan of the Jordan Marsh department store, and Cyrus Wakefield of the Wakefield Rattan Company and namesake of the town of Wakefield, Massachusetts . The first issue was published on March 4, 1872, and sold for four cents (equivalent to $ 1.02 in 2023). In August 1873, Jordan hired Charles H. Taylor as temporary business manager; in December, Taylor signed

7965-418: The "CBS 4" branding returned to the station in December 2011, but the station still brands with its call letters to this day. In January 2006, attempting to bolster its local news ratings, WBZ reinstated its 5 p.m. news (with Dr. Phil moving back to 3 pm) as part of a "mega-block" of news, and dismissed its former lead anchor Josh Binswanger, leading to the return of longtime anchor Jack Williams to

8100-459: The "CBS 4" branding when he arrived in Boston for his first day of work and a cabbie asked him, "Whatever happened to WBZ?" The move was done in the hopes of re-emphasizing WBZ-TV's local identity and trading on the call letters' then eight-decade history in Boston—a strategy that worked well when Piette was general manager at Minneapolis–Saint Paul sister station WCCO-TV . The logo that was used for

8235-696: The 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s). Marathon coverage would move to WCVB-TV in 2023. The station has long been associated with the New England Patriots of the National Football League , an association that began in 1965 after NBC 's acquisition of rights to the American Football League , of which the Patriots were a part of then. After WBZ's switch to CBS, Patriots regular season games would not air on

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8370-548: The Boston Celtics from 1972 to 1985 (and again from 1990 to 1994 through NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA ). In 1981, WBZ-TV was the first Boston television station to broadcast live wire-to-wire coverage of the Boston Marathon ; the station continued to do so every year through 2022, and was the only Boston station to do so starting in 2007 (WCVB-TV and WHDH-TV also carried the race in its entirety during much of

8505-409: The Boston Pops' live broadcast with an encore broadcast of its competing Fourth of July special from New York City. In 2016 (which also marked Mugar's retirement), CBS resumed network coverage of the concert, airing the final two hours, with the entire concert continuing to air locally on WBZ. On March 7, 2017, it was announced that the telecast would move to Bloomberg Television in 2017, as part of

8640-580: The First Amendment Task Force encouraged its 1,200 member organizations to join the campaign, while other media organizations also helped spread the call to action. Even as some right-leaning outlets portrayed the Globe ' s campaign as an attack on the president, rather than his rhetorical attacks on the Fourth Estate , some newspapers got a head start, releasing content on August 15, while 350 newspapers participated in

8775-405: The Globe ' s combined print and digital circulation for weekdays increased by 2.7%, to 346,944, and for Sundays it rose by 1.3%, to 408,974. There are more than 245,000 digital-only subscriptions, an increase of about 10,000 since February 2022. Starting with the Sunday edition in 1891, and expanded to weekday editions in 1913, each lead editorial in the Globe was signed "Uncle Dudley",

8910-467: The Governor. The Director reports directly to the Chair. The Numbers Game is played twice daily. It draws 4 1-digit numbers, bets can be made on a 1-digit and/or 2-digit number. 3-digit numbers are "first 3" or "last 3," as a 3-digit number is not drawn separately. Minimum wagers are 25 cents on a 3-digit or 4-digit number, and 50 cents on a 2-digit number or 1-digit. Payouts are on a pari-mutuel basis,

9045-628: The Hotel Bradford alongside its radio sister; its current home was not completed at the time, although master control and its self-supporting tower over the building were in use at sign-on. The WBZ stations would not move into what was then known as the Westinghouse Broadcasting Center until June 17, 1948, when the building was opened. The station was knocked off the air on August 31, 1954, when Hurricane Carol destroyed its transmitter tower. A temporary transmitter

9180-565: The Justice Department, WBZ (AM) was then divested to iHeartMedia . In the early 1960s, WBZ unveiled a new stylized "4" logo, using a distinctive font that had been designed especially for Group W. The logo became italicized in 1987, but remained the same font. It kept this logo for over 30 years until it unveiled its first "News 4 New England" logo in September 1996, a year and a half after the switch from NBC to CBS. The old logo

9315-453: The Kicker). 4 numbers wins $ 250, 3 numbers, $ 10. Megabucks is drawn on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tickets cost $ 2, up from $ 1 beforehand. 6 numbers from 1 through 44 are chosen. The jackpot starts at $ 500,000, unlike previous versions of the game, there is a cash option. Matching 5 out of 6 wins $ 5,000. Matching 4 out of 6 wins $ 200. Matching 3 out of 6 wins $ 4. Between 2009 and 2023,

9450-507: The Mass Lottery's second major game, Megabuck$ , WBZ, in conjunction, created Lottery Live , a series of live and hosted minute-long machine studio drawings. Done in the style of a game show format (albeit truncated), it was not only meant to let viewers see the process of lottery results, but to generate excitement and interest into the Lottery. Hosted by Evening Magazine contributor and 4 Today host Tom Bergeron, Lottery Live aired

9585-545: The United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 30, using virtual channel 4. As part of the SAFER Act , WBZ temporarily kept its analog channel on the air to broadcast information regarding the transition to digital television. In 2015, CBS and Weigel Broadcasting 's Decades network

9720-526: The Very Rev. Edwin Van Etten, Archbishop Richard Cushing , Rabbi Joshua L. Liebman , Boston Mayor James Michael Curley , Boston Chamber of Commerce president C. Lawrence Muench, and Governor Robert F. Bradford . Due to the uncertainty surrounding the exact day the station would launch, all of the messages were prerecorded and one of the speakers (Liebman) had died before the program aired. The dedication

9855-485: The area, including future sister station WSBK-TV and WQTV (now WBPX-TV ). In addition, programs preempted by WBZ-TV could be seen on NBC's Providence affiliate WJAR , which provides a city-grade signal to the Boston area. In January 1983, when People Are Talking expanded to one hour, WBZ-TV dropped the NBC soap opera Another World , which moved first to WQTV, then to Worcester -based WHLL-TV (now WUTF-TV ), and finally, in

9990-460: The balance of its run, ending in 2011. In October 2009, WBZ-TV became the Boston outlet for the game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! and moved The Insider and Entertainment Tonight to sister-station WSBK-TV. Previously, both aforementioned game shows aired on WSBK-TV since 2001, and on WHDH prior to then. WBZ-TV was a local television pioneer in lottery. It was the first station, in 1975, to air official lottery drawing results from

10125-472: The budget cuts at CBS, WBZ-TV's 11 p.m. newscast was number one in its time slot in the 2007–08 season (it has since slipped back to second place). On September 15, 2008, the station was in the process of upgrading its news set for high definition broadcasts. During that time, all newscasts originated from the on-air area of the newsroom. The renovations lasted for at least six weeks. On December 11, 2008, WBZ and sister station WSBK-TV respectively became

10260-417: The claim period usually ends 1 year after the game's end-of-sale date. For draw games, like Powerball, Mega Millions, Megabucks Doubler, and Mass Cash, the claim period lasts for one year after the draw. The state's lottery is unusual in that it withholds 5% on prizes over $ 600, instead of only over $ 5,000. The Federal withholding on prizes of at least $ 5,000 is 25%. WBZ-TV WBZ-TV (channel 4)

10395-606: The contract, upon which WCVB had their turn to air the games (from 1994 to 1998). Eleven years after leaving its original station, Lottery Live returned to WBZ on May 20, 1998, with longtime host Dawn Hayes (from the WNEV/WHDH era) still at the helm. By this time, in addition to The Numbers Game still airing six nights a week at 7:53 pm, late-night airings (during the 11 p.m. newscast) drew Megabuck$ , Mass Million$ , Mass Ca$ h (1991) and The Big Game (1996) on individual nights. Due to new limited contracts permitting

10530-505: The daily Numbers Game following the last main segment of Evening at 7:55 p.m. weeknights. Twice a week, during the NBC prime time lineup at 9:58 pm, the Megabuck$ drawings would air. Bergeron was known for wearing a tuxedo during Megabuck$ drawings that he nicknamed the "mega tux". The Numbers Game also aired Saturdays at 7:55 pm. Beginning on May 1, 1987 (a few months before Lottery Live ended its original WBZ run),

10665-418: The death penalty; we're for gay rights. But if people read us carefully, they will find that on a whole series of other issues, we are not knee-jerk. We're for charter schools ; we're for any number of business-backed tax breaks. We are a lot more nuanced and subtle than that liberal stereotype does justice to. James Dao became the editorial page editor in 2022. In August 2018, the editorial board launched

10800-516: The early 1990s, Lawrence -licensed WMFP . The station also dropped some Saturday morning cartoons in 1990 (which also aired on WHLL), two years before NBC abandoned such programming in favor of a Saturday edition of the morning news show Today and live-action series aimed at teenagers such as Saved by the Bell . NBC has traditionally been less tolerant of preemptions than the other networks and had to find alternate independent stations to air

10935-656: The evening newscasts. In addition, Ed Carroll's contract was not renewed and in October 2005 the station hired Ken Barlow from KARE in Minneapolis , Minnesota, to replace him as chief meteorologist. The 4 p.m. newscast was discontinued later in 2006. In late August 2006, WBZ-TV hired anchor Chris May from WHDH-TV, pairing him with Sara Underwood as anchors of the station's weekday 5 p.m. newscast. May subsequently moved to Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV, where he would remain until 2015. Underwood's contract with

11070-454: The event on August 16. From August 10 to 22, approximately 14 threatening phone calls were made to Boston Globe offices. The caller stated that the Globe was the "enemy of the people" and threatened to kill newspaper employees. On August 30, California resident Robert Chain was arrested by an FBI SWAT team and charged with a single count of making a threatening communication in interstate commerce. In May 2019, Chain pleaded guilty in

11205-469: The fall of 1993 (later moving to WHDH's daytime lineup in 1994), WBZ switched their late afternoon newscast to 5:30 pm, and began airing the freshman syndicated series American Journal (with WBZ alumnus Nancy Glass as anchor) at its 5 p.m. lead-in. American Journal would itself move to WCVB starting in its second season. During the 1994–95 season, WBZ dropped late afternoon news altogether, airing The Maury Povich Show at 5 p.m. instead. By

11340-719: The forefront of American journalism. Time magazine listed it as one of the ten best US daily newspapers in 1974 and 1984, and the Globe tied for sixth in a national survey of top editors who chose "America's Best Newspapers" in the Columbia Journalism Review in 1999. Under two editors, Martin Baron and then Brian McGrory , the Globe shifted away from coverage of international news in favor of Boston-area news. Globe reporters Michael Rezendes , Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer and Walter Robinson , and editor Ben Bradlee Jr. were instrumental in uncovering

11475-465: The former CBS affiliate, WHDH-TV (channel 7). After a 47-year relationship with NBC, channel 4 became the third station in Boston to align with CBS. The network had originally affiliated with WNAC-TV in 1948, then moved to channel 5 ( the original WHDH-TV ) in 1961; it then returned to WNAC-TV (predecessor to the current WHDH) in 1972 and remained on channel 7 until the switch. When Westinghouse merged with CBS outright on November 24, 1995, WBZ-TV became

11610-454: The fourth and fifth stations in the Boston market (behind WCVB, WHDH and WLVI) to begin broadcasting its newscasts in high definition. On May 19, 2009, WBZ/WSBK and Fox-owned WFXT entered into a Local News Service agreement that allows the stations to share local news video, along with a helicopter for traffic reports and breaking news. The helicopter originally used as part of the sharing agreement (which WFXT and WBZ/WSBK stopped using in 2013)

11745-404: The fourth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States, the sale was conducted using a Reverse Morris Trust so that it would be tax-free. While CBS shareholders retained a 72% ownership stake in the combined company, Entercom was the surviving entity, separating WBZ (AM) and its sister radio stations from WBZ-TV. The sale was completed on November 17, 2017; under the terms of a settlement with

11880-438: The game began in October 2017. Players pick 5 numbers from the first field of 70 numbers and one mega ball from the second field of 25 numbers. The parimutuel jackpot starts at $ 20 million and grows from there until someone wins. There’s another way to play this game called “just the jackpot”. Players get two sets of numbers for $ 3 for two chances to win the first prize. Just The Jackpot wagers are not eligible for other prizes in

12015-587: The game changed its format in November 2023, which also saw the doubler dropped from the game. Megabucks Doubler was drawn on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with 6 numbers chosen from 1 through 49. In 2009, the Connecticut Lottery introduced Lucky4Life, which became a regional game, Lucky for Life, three years later when the game expanded to include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont , Rhode Island , and Massachusetts. In January 2015, Lucky for Life became

12150-406: The game just like the base game. Powerball began in 1992. Massachusetts added Powerball on February 3, 2010. The Lottery offers scratch tickets with price points of $ 1, $ 2, $ 5, $ 10, $ 20, $ 30 and $ 50. Top prizes range from $ 5,000 to $ 25 million. "Cash for Life" tickets offer the chance to win $ 500 to $ 10,000 a week for life. Mass Millions was introduced in 1987. Similar to Megabucks, it was played

12285-447: The game was known as Megabucks Doubler, and as such there was a doubler system where random tickets purchased from vendors (As well as season tickets that had their last number matched with a randomly drawn number between 0 and 9) would have their non-jackpot prizes doubled if they were hit. As such, for example, matching 3 out of 6 numbers would award $ 4 instead of $ 2 on a regular ticket. These doubler prizes would be used for Megabucks when

12420-431: The government 60 days' notice that it intended to close the paper. Despite the cuts helping to "significantly [improve]" its financial performance by October of that year, the Globe 's parent company indicated that it was considering strategic alternatives for the paper, but did not plan to sell it. As of 2010, the Globe hosted 28 blogs covering a variety of topics, including Boston sports , local politics, and

12555-467: The highest title; other newspapers may call this role editor-in-chief . The role of editor was held by three people in the earliest years of the paper, then from 1880 to 1955 by the publishers. The extended period of a publisher-editor ended in 1955, when Laurence L. Winship was named editor by publisher William Davis Taylor. Winship became the paper's top editor following the death of James Morgan, longtime de facto executive editor. Morgan had joined

12690-521: The late 1970s, before it began to be distributed to stations not owned by Westinghouse as PM Magazine . On WBZ, the original hosting teams were Robin Young and Marty Sender (1977–1980); Sender and Candace Hasey (1980–1981); and Sender and Sara Edwards (1981–1982). Later, Edwards and Barry Nolan became the longest running pair to host the program (1982–1989), before Jim Watkins replaced Nolan permanently in October 1989 (guests hosts had joined Edwards for

12825-628: The local stations to carry Lottery Live for only three years at a time, WBZ moved the games to sister station WSBK-TV in 2001. From 2003 through 2016, WBZ produced coverage of the Boston Pops Orchestra 's annual Fourth of July concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell . In the event's first decade on the station, the 10 pm. ET hour of the show was broadcast nationally by CBS – featuring the Pops' signature performances of

12960-568: The lottery rights to another station in 1987. Both WCVB and WNEV (present-day WHDH) were in the running for picking up the rights; in the end, the torch was passed to WNEV, who saw the acquisition as helping their station revenues and key ratings periods (that station's newscasts were continually in third place). Channel 7 continued the Lottery Live title and format with different hosts, upon its move on August 31, 1987. WNEV/WHDH aired Lottery Live for seven seasons, until new ownership terminated

13095-406: The minimum jackpot is $ 100,000. All or Nothing (stylized as ALL OR NOTHING) was a game where bettors selected 12 numbers from a pool of 24. The drawing also consisted of 12 numbers and paid out if 0-4 numbers or 8-12 numbers were matched. If bettors matched 5, 6, or 7 numbers, the most likely amounts to be matched, there would be no prize. Matching all 12 or none of the 12 paid out the jackpot (hence

13230-507: The name All or Nothing), which was $ 100,000. Other prizes included $ 2, $ 4, $ 25, and $ 400. Like in Keno, there was 1 drawing every 4 minutes. All or Nothing began drawing on July 18, 2016, following the cession of Jackpot Poker, and ended on January 4, 2023, after 702,010 games across its 6 year run. It was replaced by The Wheel of Luck 2 weeks and 1 day afterwards on January 19, 2023. For each prize of less than $ 600, players may collect from either

13365-475: The newscasts were rebranded to News 4 New England in 1996 and WBZ 4 News in 2000. On February 1, 2004, WBZ rebranded itself as "CBS 4", the move was officially made in an attempt to alleviate lingering confusion from the 1995 affiliation swap, though the branding brought the station in line with other CBS-owned stations. The "CBS 4" branding was phased out during the first quarter of 2007 and in February 2007,

13500-416: The next decade, the Globe rose from third to first in the competitive field of what was then eight Boston newspapers. In 1958, the Globe moved from its original location on Washington Street in downtown Boston to Morrissey Boulevard in the Dorchester neighborhood. In 1965, Thomas Winship succeeded his father as editor. The younger Winship transformed the Globe from a mediocre local paper into

13635-400: The noon newscast in 2000. Other personalities who came to channel 4 during this time were political reporter John Henning and Kulhawik. Williams remained at WBZ until his retirement in June 2015, Walker gave up anchoring duties in 2005 and hosted a Sunday morning talk show for several years before leaving the station in October 2008. With syndicated news and tabloid programming becoming more

13770-409: The norm in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Live on 4 , like Evening Magazine , was starting to become of lesser importance to Group W. In 1991, after a 12-year-run, Live on 4 was dropped after WBZ-TV acquired A Current Affair for the 5:30 p.m. time slot (the program previously aired on WFXT ). WBZ launched a 5 p.m. newscast at that time. When ACA moved to WCVB's late night schedule in

13905-462: The official view of The Boston Globe as a community institution. The publisher reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office. The Globe made its first political endorsement in 1967, supporting Kevin White in that year's Boston mayoral election . The Globe has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates, such as Joe Biden in

14040-753: The operations of WLWC , the UPN affiliate in nearby Providence, which had been run out of WSBK-TV. Today, the operations of WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV are co-located at WBZ's studios in Brighton. WLWC was sold in 2006 to the Four Points Media Group , a holding company owned by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management ; it, along with the other Four Points stations, has since been acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group (WLWC would subsequently be sold to OTA Broadcasting and Ion Media ). On February 2, 2017, CBS agreed to sell CBS Radio to Entercom , then

14175-685: The paper through the New England Sports Network , which was majority owned by Fenway Sports Group and the Boston Bruins . However, after the NESN group dropped out of the running to buy the paper, Henry made his separate bid to purchase the Globe in July 2013. On October 24, 2013, he took ownership of the Globe , at a $ 70   million purchase price, and renamed the venture Boston Globe Media . On January 30, 2014, Henry named himself publisher and named Mike Sheehan,

14310-618: The paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to The New York Times in 1993 for $ 1.1   billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in United States history . The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $ 70   million from The New York Times Company , having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The chief print rival of The Boston Globe

14445-518: The part-time employees in the editorial sections. However, early on the morning of May 5, 2009, The New York Times Company announced it had reached a tentative deal with the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents most of the Globe 's editorial staff, that allowed it to get the concessions it demanded. The paper's other three major unions had agreed to concessions on May 3, 2009, after The New York Times Company threatened to give

14580-627: The payout percentage is 60% on 1- and 2-digit wagers, 70% on 3-digit bets, and 50% on a 4-digit number. Keno is mainly played at retailers that are equipped with game monitors, although it is available at every location. Keno started on September 30, 1993. 5 minutes apart of drawing started on September 30, 1993 and ended on February 28, 2003 after 475,622 games. On February 20, 2003, Keno announced that starting on March 1, 2003, it would modify from 5 minutes apart of drawing to 4 minutes apart of drawing. Prizes and options vary. 101 games were drawn for Keno on December 22, 1995 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:25 p.m. which

14715-456: The same system when that state's lottery had the Winfall game) and a group of MIT college students who, by legally exploiting elements of the game, were practically guaranteed to win profits of approximately 20% when tickets were bought in rolldown conditions. The story was adapted into the 2022 Paramount+ film Jerry & Marge Go Large . Cash Winfall ended on January 26, 2012. This is

14850-402: The same way where players picked 6 numbers out of a field of 42, however, a bonus number was drawn during each drawing, drawings were held on Tuesday and Friday nights. Matching all 6 regular numbers won the jackpot. 5 out of 6 plus the bonus number won $ 100,000, 5 out of 6 won $ 5,000, 4 out of 6 won $ 100, and 3 out of 6 won $ 2. This game was replaced by Cash Winfall in 2004. The Daily Game Race

14985-411: The show weekdays at 9 am. Despite its overnight success, channel 4 had little interest in keeping the show as a part of its schedule, in part because the station had to give priority to the upcoming Group W-distributed talk show, The Wil Shriner Show , in the fall of 1987. Oprah moved to a 5 p.m. weekday time slot on WCVB-TV, where it became an institution (later moving to 4 p.m. in 1994) for

15120-417: The spring of 2005, the Globe retracted a story describing the events of a seal hunt near Halifax , Nova Scotia , that took place on April 12, 2005. Written by freelancer Barbara Stewart, a former New York Times staffer, the article described the specific number of boats involved in the hunt and graphically described the killing of seals and the protests that accompanied it. In reality, weather had delayed

15255-466: The station again until 1998 , when CBS acquired the television rights to the NFL's present AFC . Since then, the majority of Patriots regular season games have aired on WBZ, and in 2009 , the station became the Patriots' "official" station, gaining rights to preseason games and airing the weekly program Patriots All Access . Three of the Patriots' Super Bowl appearances— XX , XXXVIII and LIII (including

15390-423: The station tends to rank No. 1 in daytime and prime time ratings, Channel 4's local news ratings have suffered since the switch in network affiliations. This is partly because at the time of the switch, CBS was well behind NBC in the network ratings. Taken as a whole, its local newscasts are the lowest rated of Boston's "Big 3" affiliates, having dipped behind a resurgent WHDH-TV as well. In the mid-1960s, it adopted

15525-399: The station was not renewed and she left the station on March 4, 2008. In January 2007, the station launched Project Mass, a commitment to cover the community's top concerns in government, transit, healthcare, education, finance and the environment. The initiative kicked off with an online town meeting. WBZ's on-air staff continued to change in late 2007, when longtime morning anchor Scott Wahle

15660-496: The station's newscast title was reverted from CBS 4 News to WBZ News . The rebranding was completed on February 4, 2007, during the station's coverage of the Super Bowl. This made WBZ-TV the first station owned by CBS to depart from CBS's standardization, and one of a handful of CBS-owned stations to brand with its call letters rather than the CBS name. General manager Ed Piette told The Boston Globe that he decided to ditch

15795-399: The summer of 1995, the station's news had fallen to third place for the very first time, thanks in part to WHDH and WCVB's full-hour 5 p.m. news accounting for their ratings dominance. In response, WBZ began airing two hours of news between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. that fall, with the end time of the news block later being scaled back to 6:30 p.m. in 1997 (to accommodate the move of

15930-440: The team's wins in the latter two)—were televised by WBZ. In April 2021, the station announced that WBZ-TV and its sister station WSBK-TV would air New England Revolution matches throughout the 2021 season; most matches were aired on WSBK, with select matches (including, in 2021, the season opener) airing on WBZ-TV. WBZ and WSBK lost the local rights to Revolution matches in 2023, when all MLS broadcasts shift to MLS Season Pass ,

16065-419: The various programs that WBZ-TV did not air. Despite this, NBC was generally satisfied with WBZ-TV, which was one of NBC's strongest affiliates. As a sidebar, Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV (NBC's largest affiliate at the time) also heavily preempted NBC programming, but it spent most of the 1980s and 1990s as NBC's weakest major-market affiliate. The station also broadcast many locally produced programs over

16200-560: The war until peace was called on February 27, 1991. Station management elected to keep the newscast going, but now as a newsmagazine that specialized in investigative reports. Now with Randy Price as the principal anchor, the title was shortened to The 7:30 Report . The show continued on for another year and a half. Then, from September 1992 until September 2009, WBZ aired Entertainment Tonight —which it had acquired from WHDH-TV—at 7:30 p.m. (that show has been syndicated by CBS since 2006). People Are Talking , which ran from 1980 to 1993,

16335-542: The years. One of the most beloved was the long-running Big Brother Bob Emery show, hosted by veteran radio performer Bob Emery , who first did the show on Boston-area radio in 1921 and who in 1947 hosted the first five-times-a-week children's show on network television on DuMont. For nearly two decades, from 1956 to 1974, Rex Trailer hosted a popular weekend morning children's show called Boomtown . For part of that time, Boomtown originated from an outdoor "western town" set built next to WBZ-TV's studios. In 2005, WBZ aired

16470-448: Was a live early-afternoon talk show that aired on WBZ, as it did on some other Westinghouse stations (notably Baltimore, whose version of the program was at one time co-hosted by Oprah Winfrey ). In Boston, it was originally hosted by Nancy Merrill and later by Buzz Luttrell, but the best-known host was the program's last, Tom Bergeron. WBZ-TV carried The Oprah Winfrey Show during its first nationally syndicated year (1986–1987), airing

16605-500: Was absorbed by the Sunday edition in 1892. In 1878, The Boston Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe , which ceased publication in 1979. By the 1890s, The Boston Globe had become a stronghold, with an editorial staff dominated by Irish American Catholics . In 1912, the Globe was one of a cooperative of four newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News , The New York Globe , and

16740-423: Was added to 4.2 upon its launch. Boston Globe The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe , is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts . The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes . The Boston Globe is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023. Founded in 1872,

16875-442: Was eliminated. Jack Williams filled in for the 9 p.m. spot in the interim. On June 6, 2008, weekend anchor/reporter Kate Merrill was appointed as 9 p.m. anchor on WSBK, along with general assignment reporting duties for the weekday 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. Lobel subsequently served as a guest co-host on then-sister station WODS' morning show in late 2008 and a guest sports anchor on WBZ radio in January 2009. Even with

17010-516: Was followed by the station's first news broadcast, hosted by Arch MacDonald . The station was from its inception associated with the NBC television network, owing to WBZ radio (1030 AM)'s longtime affiliation with NBC's radio networks . At its sign-on, WBZ-TV became the first commercial television station to begin operations in the New England region. The station originally operated from inside

17145-579: Was in danger of losing its NBC affiliation when Westinghouse balked at NBC's initial offer to trade sister stations KYW radio and WPTZ television (now KYW-TV ) in Philadelphia , in exchange for WTAM-AM - FM and WNBK television (now WKYC-TV) in Cleveland . In response, NBC threatened to pull its programming from both WBZ-TV and WPTZ unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. The swap was made in February 1956, and Westinghouse immediately complained to

17280-553: Was installed using a short, makeshift tower at the studio site and later on the original tower of WEEI-FM (now WBGB ) in Malden . In 1957, WBZ-TV began broadcasting from a 1,200-foot (366 m) tower in Needham, along with WBZ-FM at 106.7 FM (now WMJX ). The tower site is now owned by American Tower Corporation, and is used by several Boston-area television stations, including WGBH-TV (channel 2) and WCVB-TV (channel 5). Channel 4

17415-468: Was later involved in a crash that killed two people in Seattle on March 18, 2014, while on loan by Helicopters, Inc. for use by KOMO-TV during technical upgrades to that station's own helicopter. On December 12, 2011, WBZ debuted a new news set, replacing one that had been used for nearly a decade, it features LED lighting, a dedicated weather area, and 16 high definition monitors. The new look, plus

17550-531: Was originally replaced in the weeknight 7:30 slot by Family Feud from December 18, 1990, through mid-January 1991. With action in the Gulf War reaching a breaking point at that time, the station decided to begin airing expanded coverage of the war at 7:30 pm, in an ongoing series titled Crisis in the Gulf: The 7:30 Report . Anchored by Jack Williams and Liz Walker, it served as a comprehensive update on

17685-465: Was played much the same as Keno. It used a horserace-themed Keno-style computer monitor. The Daily Race Game started on April 2, 2007 and ended on June 11, 2013, due to poor sales and players' preference for poker. Cash Winfall was drawn Mondays and Thursdays. 6 numbers 1 through 46 were chosen. The jackpot began at $ 500,000, it always was paid in lump sum. Lower-tier prizes were $ 4,000, $ 150, or $ 5 for matching 5, 4, or 3 numbers respectively, 2 numbers won

17820-609: Was reassigned and replaced by former WFXT anchor David Wade. In January 2008, longtime morning and midday meteorologist Barry Burbank was reassigned to the weekend programs. He was replaced by meteorologist Todd Gutner. On February 29, 2008, it was reported that the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused a significant loss in viewers during the late news. WBZ-TV finished with an average of 157,800 total viewers, down from 177,800 viewers in 2007. On April 1, 2008, CBS's owned-and-operated television stations division ordered widespread budget cuts and staff layoffs from its stations. As

17955-502: Was the first in the Boston market to employ a female reporter (Betty Adams), the first to employ a Black full-time reporter ( Terry Carter ), the first to have an all-female news team ( Shelby Scott and Gail Harris), the first to have a Black full-time nightly news anchor ( Liz Walker ), and the first to air a minority affairs program. In 1994, sister station WJZ-TV in Baltimore lost its affiliation with ABC after that network announced

18090-446: Was the longest-used numeric logo in New England television history until WCVB's stylized "5" crossed the 31-year mark in 2003. The "Circle 4" logo that replaced the original "News 4" logo in 1998 was often referred to on-air by WBZ sports anchor Bob Lobel as "The Circle 4 Ranch". In 2004, WBZ began using CBS's standardized branding, becoming "CBS 4". In 2007, it dropped the standardized logo and reverted to being known as just "WBZ", using

18225-577: Was the paper that allowed Peter Gammons to start his Notes section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in many major newspapers nationwide. In 2004, Gammons became the 56th recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA ; he was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31, 2005. In 2007, Charlie Savage , whose reports on President Bush 's use of signing statements made national news, won

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