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Two local TV stations have changes in the works with their on-air roster. Frances Rivera is leaving Boston for New York after spending a decade here, including five years as one of the channel's leading anchors. WHDH is holding in-house auditions to replace her. For fans of WHDH, staffers like Anne Allred, Amanda Grace, Adam Williams, and, of course, Sorboni Banerjee. Over at WCVB, Michele McPhee has joined Channel 5 as a crime and law enforcement reporter and begins on September 6. McPhee worked at WFXT and hosted a talk show at WTKK-FM 96.9 until late last year. McPhee said she "grew up watching WCVB."
An ongoing contract impasse between WHDH and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) union that represents on-air anchors and reporters could affect the annual Health and Fitness Expo at the Hynes Convention Center in Back Bay, sponsored by WHDH. AFTRA recommended WHDH anchors and reporters not attend the event. The contract dispute focuses on salaries. WHDH's owner, Sunbeam Television of Miami, has faced age discrimination allegations in the past. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
WHDH reported that Julianne McCrery, 42, of Irving, Texas confessed to killing the boy found dead in Maine last weekend. WHDH cited "sources" as identifying the child as Camden Pierce Hughes. She reportedly told Massachusetts and Maine State Police she drove from Texas to Maine to specifically kill the boy. WHDH]
Today is free cone day at Ben & Jerry's. The day isn't over. The outdated food found in Boston school cafeterias was sent to prisons. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
It won't take effect until next September, but WCVB is replacing the “Oprah Winfrey Show" with the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" at the 4 p.m. slot Oprah is vacating. Ellen's show currently airs at 9 a.m. on WCVB every weekday. WCVB will replace Ellen's show with “Regis & Kelly," which currently airs on WHDH and will be replaced with a local news show. [Boston Herald]
We tittered when WHDH TV weatherman Pete Bouchard told viewers that nine inches of snow is "almost as big as me." His bosses claim that the nine inch little man that Bouchard was referring to wasn't in his pants at all but on the television screen he was watching. The video of Bouchard's remark is embarrassing enough, however, that WHDH has gone and demanded that YouTube take it down. And some media law types aren't pleased. [Via UHub]
--Police in Cambridge continue to unravel Monday's shooting of a 21-year old man at Harvard University's Kirkland House residence hall. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr said the killing occured after an alleged drug deal gone bad. Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, turned himself in and will be arraigned today in Cambridge District Court. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]
Channel 7 WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate, is saying no way to airing Jay Leno's new show at 10pm this fall, asserting it will air the station's local news program instead. It's a slap in the face to a local boy made good, and also "a flagrant violation of the terms of their contract with NBC," according to John Eck, president of NBC TV Network. NBC is threatening WHDH with cancellation of its affiliate status if the channel persists in dissing Jay. But Ed Ansin, who owns both WHDH and WLVI, says the Leno show "will be detrimental to our 11 o'clock" news program and feels that more news viewers will be around at 10. Will WHDH be un-NBC'ed? Stay tuned this fall to find out.
--Randi Goldklank resigned from her post at WHDH after getting in a ruckus at Logan Airport. She was in court today and apologized to state troopers, whom she gave a hard time in the incident. We now have a new word to describe getting dangerously drunk while in a public position: "Goldklanking." [Boston Globe]
--Logan Airport is going greener by buying renewable energy credits, right in time for Earth Day. [Boston Globe]
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