NorthEast Radio Watch 12/15/2025: NYC Morning Shakeup
In this week’s issue… NYC morning shows exit - Carton back amidst WFAN shakeup - FM signing off in Canada - More radio centennials
NorthEast Radio Watch 6/17/2024: WBZ Moves Ebben
In this week’s issue… TV turnover in Boston – Governor Spadea? – Remembering WBZ’s Mainella, Toronto’s Mackowyz – Arcand leaves Montreal mornings
By SCOTT FYBUSH
*At Boston’s WBZ-TV (Channel 4), there’s another anchor desk shuffle underway: after 11 years as the CBS O&O’s main evening anchor, Paula Ebben moves back to mornings starting today.
Ebben was on the morning shift at channel 4 from her start at the station in 2004 until 2013 and will now join Chris Tanaka on a new morning show that’s getting a bigger refresh this summer after the departure of longtime morning host Liam Martin in March (prominently saying he wanted a better life-work balance) and then the abrupt exit of co-host Kate Merrill earlier this month.
It’s part of a bigger instability on Boston anchor desks that extends over to Fox affiliate WFXT (Channel 25), where lead evening news anchor Vanessa Welch departed a few weeks ago for a job in the financial sector. Christa Delcamp has been anchoring the 10 PM news on WFXT in Welch’s absence.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING…
As we announced a few weeks ago, the 2026 edition of the Tower Site Calendar will be the last.
We began publishing it 25 years ago, and the broadcast landscape is radically different now.
Radio World just ran an excellent article about us if you want to know more.
Once it’s gone, that’s it. We won’t be printing any more.
Thank you to everyone who saw our announcement and rushed to buy it. We appreciate you.
(There are some calendars from previous years if you want more of a tower photo fix — all under $5.)
But don’t wait to get this year’s Tower Site Calendar — buy it now!
We are selling the Broadcast Historian’s Calendar again this year, but we have that in an even smaller quantity — definitely don’t hesitate for that.
And visit the Fybush Media Store to check out our selection of books and videos, too!
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