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Its evening news team—consisting of anchors Jack Williams and Liz Walker, the late meteorologist Bruce Schwoegler, and sportscaster Bob Lobel—was the longest-running news team in New England from 1981 until Walker moved to the noon newscast in 2000. [30]
Walker was the evening news anchor at WBZ-TV starting in 1981. [3] Her career had begun in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas working as the public affairs director at station KATV. On-air assignments in Denver and San Francisco followed before she moved to Boston and WBZ in 1980. [2]
She began in television as a secretary at Channel 38 in Boston in 1973. In 1975, she went on air as a radio announcer at WBZ (Boston). She made her first television appearance on WBZ-TV's Evening Magazine in 1977. [6] From 1982 to 1983, Young was lead presenter, along with Tom Ellis, for the revamped evening newscasts on WNEV-TV (now WHDH ...
After stepping down from the 6pm news cast, Williams remained with the station for special segments and for "Wednesday's Child". He also worked as a substitute for other news anchors like Jonathan Elias, Paula Ebben, David Wade, and Lisa Hughes. Williams announced his retirement on June 23, 2015 and his last day as a WBZ anchor was June 25, 2015.
Ellis officially became the new lead anchor at the recently launched WNEV-TV on September 13, 1982. Along with his new co-anchor Robin Young (formerly of WBZ-TV's Evening Magazine), critics hailed him as a member of the "dream team" that would hopefully take Channel 7 out of last place. Billboard, radio and TV advertisements attempted to tap ...
Lobel joined WBZ-TV as weekend sports anchor in 1979 and was promoted to weekday anchor and sports director in 1981. Lobel has also done some play-by-play work, calling WBZ's annual broadcast of the Boston Marathon, Boston Celtics games from 1989 to 1993, Boston College Eagles football games in 1986, New England Patriots preseason games from 1985 to 1991, and two NFL games for NBC in 1985.
Steve Burton is the Sports Director for WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV in Boston.The son of former Boston Patriots player Ron Burton, Steve Burton grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts and is a graduate of and a former quarterback for Northwestern University holding a bachelor of science degree in Communications and a master's degree in Broadcast journalism.
Tony Pepper was an American journalist who was a news anchor for WBZ-TV from 1974 to 1981. Early life ... In 1972 he became a news anchor at KOA-TV. [2] WBZ