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WCVB-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hearst Television.The station's studios are located on TV Place (off Gould Street near the I-95/MA 128/Highland Avenue interchange) in Needham, Massachusetts, and its transmitter is located on Cedar Street, also in Needham, on a tower shared with several other television and ...
Don Gillis (sportscaster) Donald A. Gillis (August 1, 1922 – April 23, 2008) [1][2] was a Canadian-born American sportscaster who was sports director of Boston's Channel 5 (WHDH-TV through March 18, 1972; thereafter WCVB-TV) from 1962 through 1983. Gillis pioneered the 11 p.m. sports report in Boston during his tenure at WHDH-TV, becoming the ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Boston: 2 5 WGBH-TV: PBS: World on 2.2 : 4 20 WBZ-TV: CBS: Start TV on 4.2, Dabl on 4.3, Fave TV on 4.4 : 5 33 WCVB-TV: ABC: MeTV on 5.2, Story Television on 5.3
Technical information. ERP. 100 kW. HAAT. 306 m (1,004 ft) WHDH-TV (channel 5) was a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The station ceased operations on March 18, 1972, following the revocation of the station's license. The channel 5 allocation in the market was taken over by WCVB-TV the following morning, March 19, 1972.
September 2001. (2001-09) –. present. Chronicle is an American newsmagazine television program that is produced by two New England television stations owned by Hearst Television: WCVB-TV (channel 5) in Boston, Massachusetts and WMUR-TV (channel 9) in Manchester, New Hampshire. The program premiered on WCVB on January 25, 1982, and the WMUR ...
Five All Night, Live All Night. Five All Night, Live All Night was a locally produced late-night TV show on Boston station WCVB-TV, channel 5 that aired from March 5, 1980 to December 12, 1982. It was part of a late night block of programming called Five All Night that went on the air in 1972. Locally owned at that time, WCVB was one of the ...
Bob Halloran is the former [1] Friday and Saturday nights news anchor and sports anchor for WCVB Channel 5, an ABC affiliate located in the Boston, Massachusetts media market . He is the author of Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward, a boxing biography on "Irish " Micky Ward, published in 2007 by Lyons Press.
He co-anchored weekend newscasts from 1976 to 1984, [5] early mornings from 1984 to 2000 and noontime newscasts from 1984 to 2006 when he was named special correspondent and field reporter for both WCVB's broadcast news operation and its website TheBostonChannel.com (now WCVB.com). He retired at the end of 2008.