My Favorite Boston, Local, New England, (& National) News Team! So Professional, Yet you feel like it's your Family giving you the news, weather, and sports!! We Feel Like they are Really Feeling for the People they're Reporting On,...and All of Us Who Are Watching!! All of the Teams, Eye Opener, Mid-Day, and Evening Are The BEST!! Love Them All! No Wonder Why They ALWAYS Get Awards For "Best Local News," NATIONALLY, Including the Edward R Morrow Award,...For Many Years!! Thanks,...and Keep On Being THE BEST @wcvb Channel 5!!! read more

So annoying. Interrupting regular 3:00programming with the marathon which is over. You could cover this later in the day.

Cindy Fitzgibbons is very classy and professional. Then you put on Kelly Ann with super tight dresses, they are way too short for tv. She looks like she is going clubbing rather than doing the weather. Can't someone address this? We are not tuning in to watch her trashy clothing. read more

It seems WCVB has lost their professionalism, trying to be fun and funny. I watched WCVB for years but had to switch. Ed Harding is the biggest offender. Can he not sit up straight once in a while instead of that continual slouch to one side or the other trying to look casual. And take his glasses away! He flips them, twirls them, leans on them chews on them - everything but look through them! Calling the meteorologist Wank instead of his name. And his constant comments every day on sports ..... read more

Well I would have given WCVB-TV a five rating but after watching the news tonight with Ed Harding and his comment about Katie Thompson being the wife of the man that owned the dog kennel, I am disgusted and disappointed. I can't believe he had to reveal that information to the listeners as that is her personal business and she is an innocent person at this time. Shame on the station and the the higher ups that allowed that to happen and shame on Ed Harding for being the one to tell the world!!! if you think this is what helps your rating-------You are dead wrong!!! I would like a response from your the station manger please. read more

I don't know what is going on with Chronicle lately because it went from one of my favorite shows to almost unwatchable. The stories from the last couple of weeks have been beyond boring so if this is a direction for you - go back because this sucks! read more

The Eyeopener continues to make me want to close my eyes AND ears. The female morning anchor is intolerable. All of her shoehorning of forced attempts at humor make this anything but news. "Oh, HAHAHAHA, stuck in an elevator. HA HA HA HA, they even took a selfie with a fire engine. HA HA HA HA." The three others appear uncomfortable and seem to be wishing it would stop. But it never does. Other Local Morning News offerings are marginally better and provide some relief. "HA HA HA HA, the people down in the Cape are like, 'what sun, it's raining here'", AH HA HA HA HA HEE HEE HEE!" ugh. Can we bring back Randy Price? read more

You clearly do not care one iota about your viewers, There is zero reason to interrupt programming for relentless coverage of the shooting. NOTHING has changed since the coverage started last night. His name is the same The same # of people are dead We know where it happened We know he is missing We know there are injured We know people ran out of the sites. Do you have to interview them all? Your news department prides itself in repetition. End It read more

Constantly interrupting scheduled programs with their news that can wait! I record daily programs to catch up on in the evenings and tune into their constant news interruptions. Obviously they are trying to compete with cable! Love WBZ they report the news when the news is important! read more

Sadly this station is changing for the worse...they have become more like the tabloid stations. The 4:00 news is introduced like the tabloids, and they have too much filler shots of outrageous/stupid things that people catch on their phones. Please stick to what's important and relevant news and the facts. read more

WCVB is slipping. All the good and solid anchors are leaving. So much news is repeated over and over and so much other news goes unreported. I know this because I read it on the web. They have a solid format and they stick to it - too much! I can only watch it for 10-15 minutes and then have to turn it off. Relentless advertising. The website is terrible- so much ads and news from the AP that is not even local. Too much "human interest" stories. I still enjoy the Chronicle show. read more

Very bias news station. Anchors are more interested in their careers than the interest of the viewing public. I am embarrassed for them. In my opinion, WCVB news is in the "political interference" game. read more

I would caution anyone before agreeing to be interviewed by this network. Last week, in late August, 2020 we were contacted by Channel 5 and asked if we would agree to be interviewed as part of a newscast program documenting on how the business community on Cape Cod was dealing with the recovery from Covid-19. We agreed and a very agreeable reporter and her photographer showed up and interviewed in the front yard to our B&B. That night, during the broadcast of the program we were featured with one line from 10 minutes of dialogue and taken completely out of context: "It's been busy and we're running ahead of last year." That line was followed by a much longer segment featuring a store owner who is going out of business. We have since received blowback from the public, accusing us of bragging and crowing about our success. Thanks a lot, Channel 5 for building broadcasting drama at the expense of context and truth. Lesson learned. No more interviews with TV people. read more

We are sick to death of these daily "news briefings" from Charly Baker and Marty Walsh. They have nothing new to add and are a complete waste of time. Anything they have to say could be summed up in 5 minutes on the evening news. There is absolutely no reason to interrupt scheduled programming. They are grandstanding, nothing more. ALL stations do not have to broadcast this fiasco. Take turns if you must! Meanwhile, I am happily watching HGTV! Or maybe you know that no one will be watching the station that DOES broadcast this prattle! read more

Curious why you focus on one story and recap the same information over and over again. There is much more going on that should be reported within the time frame allowed. Always a disappointment read more

Love Ted Johnson - his comments on Patriots are always spot on and informative. Would like to see more of him.

I love Channel 5 morning news team. The news is always so depressing, and has the cability to fill many with anxiety. I look forward to watching Doug Meehan, Antoinette Antonio, Cindy Fitzgibbons and Yes, folks Katie Thompson. She is a person of her own, we all are, her husband is whoever he is, sounds like he did something absolutely unforgiveable, but that is him not her. Do people think whatever happened, is happening,s is easy for her, my guess would be more than likely not, but just my guess. All I know is it's nice to hear myself let out a silly little laugh here and there in between the god awful news of our own town, other states and around the world. The only time I switch to another station is when a certain weather reporter is on, it happens, some of us just don't hear the tones of people talking. Truth be told, every time the new weather person is on, I do change the station ASAP. read more

I grew up watching Channel 5, it's been my go to station for news, weather, Chonicle, you name it. In the last year, it has really deteriorated. Sensationalism rules versus real news. Long time beloved anchors leaving, I'm positive that they were driven out by bringing that wretched woman from fox in. You know the one I mean. Can NOT stand her, we switch channels when she's reading on a third grade level from the tele prompter. Then channel 5 starts with the liar and more liar ads. Totally hypocritical to have an investigative team and take those snakes ad revenue. Money vs ethics, hmmm oh yeh, money. Oh yes I know I'm being harsh, and I'm just as sure a lot of people would agree. So I watch the 4pm news and switch to another channel after that. Pass on this station! read more

This channel used to be so much better , it is extremely one sided. I stopped watching news except weather over a year ago . I am sitting in a waiting room with it on news , otr and now matter of fact all are leaning the same way . See that Hearst owns it and quite a few more and it is pushing it's beliefs and so called facts on everyone not interested in fact checking read more

What's up with the Morgan & Morgan commercials on WCVB? They appear to want to represent everyone including Santa Claus. So annoying to watch I mute them immediately. read more

This news station is the absolute worst, from the women who look like they are getting ready to go clubbing, to biased and bad reporting. The only part useful is the weather and that gets marred when the weather woman is pregnant and wearing a tight dress. All you can see is her big belly. Oh...let's not forget the cackling laugh of Maria Stephanos. The repartee between the newscasters is moronic and repetitive..."Who's driving"...every single night. YAWN!!! If they could ever get their facts straight, it would be a miracle. Last, but not least, the Editor's whining dribble when he is on his personal soapbox is enough to make me want to vomit. He is almost the stupidest person on earth and has no business running a news station. They all need to be fired and replaced with professional and real news reporters. read more

Ultra scammy/archaic website. You have to watch a commercial in order to be able to see anything. On each article. The website doesn't work correctly on 90% of popular browsers. If you have any type of ad-block enabled, you can't see a thing. You can't even control the page, as it scrolls up and down itself. All because you won't allow them complete control over your computer. Not one other local news website operates in this sleazy manner. Really....how pathetic and desperate is this station? read more

I find it very disturbing to see this station blocking this sweet loving elderly woman tv in which this is her favorite channel and now she's is very depress because she's has nothing to look forward to since she is house bound...shame on you!!! read more

I have uninstalled WCVB online because of the new policy of showing video commercials*even if* you don't play the news video. I should be able to read the story and not be subject to the commercial unless I want to play the video. You will get eventually get many gripes on this. Also, most of the videos can't be skipped after a few seconds which makes matters worse. read more

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. read more

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! read more

I only honestly watch WCVB for the weather and Chronicle. Given that many WCVB legends are either retired or gone, I seldom watch WCVB. At least there aren't as many changes in Channel 5 as there are in other TV channels, especially the relatively unstable Channel 7 and WBZ, which have new people almost all the time. read more

Channel 5 is my favorite station, but since the rescan, they are broadcasting a poor signal. Thus I have to watch channel 4. I hope you can fix your problem soon. read more

OMG! i cannot believe how adorable Steve Lacy is! What a handsome man. I have such a crush on him, I cannot even begin to tell you! And ---- he is smart as a whip and a darned fine news anchor. One of the best! Oh, Lord, I am IN LOVE!!!!!!!!! read more

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

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

For the most part I enjoy watching WCVB. I like the Eye Opener, Noon News and the 5:00 and 5:30. But I can't for the life of me understand why they ever thought replacing Heather Unruh or JC Monahan with Maria Stephanos was a good idea. I have to turn the station when she's on. When she's trying to be "one of the guys" I find her annoying and loud with a laugh that goes right through me. In my opinion, she tries WAY too hard. Plus she seems to end all the human-interest stories with, "I love it!" Just had to get off my chest. Thanks for letting me vent. read more

This is the best news around! They are Professional and experienced unlike other stations such as NBC Boston!

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

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 read more

I love watching WCVB News Center 5 at every newscast from Randy price, Cindy Fitzgibbon, Erika Tarantal, Emily Riemer, and Olessa Stepanova to Phil Lipof , JC Monahan, Ed Harding, Heather Unruh Harvey leonard and Mike lynch and every one else on the news team. # 1 news casts in Boston and New England read more

I have always been an early riser and it's always been Chanel 5 news for me. I have been really disapointed to the point that I am switching to another station for morning news. My complaint is the attire of the morning ladies. They should dress much more professionally. Today DAnielle looked like she was going to an evening cocktail party. Her dress again is much to short. I am glad Dorothy the weather lady is gone. She basically wore the same tight fitting dress with a "twist". What ever happened to appropriate business attire???????????? I read the other reviews and see Kyle D. Watches because Dorothy is so hot. I also agree with Matthew A. Repeat, repeat, repeat... BYE! read more