WCVB-TV Channel 5

I watch WCVB all the time. I especially like watching the eyeopener. The eyeopener has very beautiful women like Erika, Emily and Cindy.

Ed Harding just said the Ravens are going to win next Saturday on tonight’s news!!! Is he from Boston? Is he a Boston sports fan??? If he wants to report the news in Beantown no matter what you always always support Bostons great sports teams!!!
What an idiot.
This is the best sports city anywhere, been watching channel 5 faithfully for 40 years grew up with Dickie, Natalie & Chet. Switch to channel 7… Screw Ed Harding.
GO PATS!

I think the Chronicle program is great, but I have spent 10 minutes trying to find a site where I am allowed to contact them. Evidently that is a NoNo. My comments were with reference to Umass Boston

I once loved getting my news from this station, but no more. Stories get beaten to death, sports coverage is excessive or preempts news altogether, and sensationalism rules the day. Local news ranges from «fire in South End kills two» to «man in Revere falls out of his chair». We also get more and more repetitive national news because, hey, nuthin’s goin’ on locally I guess. The other night, we were told to stay tuned for an upcoming story about, GASP! a plane that ATTACKED a school band. The word «attack» WAS used, but was there an attack? No. A pilot mistakenly dumped insecticide on a parking lot that a school band was practicing on. Talk about a cheap «stay tuned» ploy.
Sometimes a story will be reported forever with no facts known. We’ll get an hour of «The fire is raging, as you can see, right behind me, but we don’t know what caused it and, oh wait, here’s a neighbor, maybe she knows — hi there, do you know what caused this fire?» «I don’t know!». «Well, how do you FEEL about it? „I don’t know!“ „Thanks, well, it IS a fire — as you can see, right behind me, with flames and smoke and, oh my God, can you move the camera to my left, that ROSE BUSH just went up in flames…“
Female anchors often seem to intentionally wear the most bizarre clothes possible. A dress with one sleeve; a dress made from what looks like leftover pieces of other dresses; a dress that could have been worn by Lt. Uhura on the Starship Enterprise; a necklace so large that you expect the anchor to fall over; a yard of excess fabric seemingly gathered at the waist and tied in a knot — news women dressed like they’re at cocktail hour at the opening of a trendy So Ho gallery. At least the men wear jackets and ties. Yeah, it matters, the women are as professional as the men, but are used like eye candy clothes horses.
Banter between anchors can be fun, but it’s often way overdone, meaningless chitchat as „filler“, like, „Ed, did you see the tie he was wearing? (giggle, chortle, tee hee) Yes, I did! That was SOME TIE!!!“ LOL!!! I LOVE that tie! My wife picks out my ties!» Another annoyance is sad news stories that come with freaking background music. A report on the Marathon bombing, a year later, accompanied by, what, Celine Dion singing «My heart will go on»?
I actually feel bad for some of the reporters. You know, old timers that you only seem to see now and then, and when you do, they look sad, like they’re covering stories that no one else wants to cover, in hip boots in the middle of a not so flooded road in Winthrop for example, pointing out tragic storm damage done to a mailbox, («Once this mailbox stood straight up, but all that changed, and the people who own this mail box are now seeking closure…») or telling us that «countless unhappy motorists are stranded» while showing us the same tired clip, every few seconds, of two laughing guys pushing a Subaru through a puddle.
This news station once imparted a sense of honesty. Reporting wasn’t trendy or flashy, it was real. News anchors sat at their desk and did their jobs. Now they stand, pose, and wear color coordinated clothes. The overwhelming sense is that anchors and reporters are being told to report, look and act as they do, for ratings, nothing more. I’m over it, will get my news from newspapers, the BBC, whatever; glitz, trendiness, hollowness, and viewer manipulation be damned. WCVB is an ABC affiliate, so not surprising that ABC national news is lame now too, offering 10 minutes of real news, 10 minutes of fluff (what’s «trending», who’s «tweeting», what video of a dancing hamster has «gone viral»), and 10 minutes of erectile dysfunction or bladder control commercials.

i been a fan of channel 5 for over 35yrs. in times of changes they made it ok to get the infor we needed to be hear

The best newscast around. The women on this newsteam are so beautiful, especially that Dorothy Krysiuk.

Ok, I’ll admit it, I watch Chronicle sometimes. I feel like it keeps me grounded and it’s normally about something in the Commonwealth or New England. This show is the Main Streets and back roads. The news itself is really well done, too. Pam Cross is my favorite anchor for the weekends. In fact, she’s tied with Steve Lacy. He works so hard!

I have been thinking long and hard about this review for quite some time.
I like Channel 5 and the eye opener gang, Gay David Brown, Heather, JC, and the other gay meteorologist David Epstein are all refreshing decent professionals.
You guyz are like my extended family. Nice good people.
However Your news sucks. Do you have to repeat every friggin story at every newscast?
I see a story at 5:00am, 5:00pm, 11:00, and then AGAIN at 5:00am the next day.
Why is half of your news about the Red Sox and Patriots? This is FRIGGIN INSANE.
This morning you showed a story about mini piglets in teacups. Not one credible story about the Dali Lama visiting congress. Fucktards.
I will give you one extra star for Chronicle. I heart it.