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.
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