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New WCVB Promos Are Authentic, Thus Effective

When you want to know what someone’s really like, ask the people they work with. Your co-workers probably know you better than your wife and kids. Because, after all, you probably spend more time at work than at home. That’s the creative behind these new image spots for the main anchor team from WCVB, Hearst’s […]

by Staff November 27, 2017 7:35 GMT+0000
Harvey Leonard, Ed Harding, Maria Stephanos and Mike Lynch.

When you want to know what someone’s really like, ask the people they work with.

Your co-workers probably know you better than your wife and kids. Because, after all, you probably spend more time at work than at home.

That’s the creative behind these new image spots for the main anchor team from WCVB, Hearst’s ABC affiliate in Boston.

And they work. No hollow claims, no research-driven buzz words, only the observations of co-workers in their own words makes these spots, and the people in them, believable, real, and genuine.

Russ Nelligan

Russ Nelligan, WCVB’s creative services director, says when anchors have been on the job long enough, it’s easy to assume everyone knows who they are.

“WCVB is blessed with people who have been reporting in Boston many years. We decided to take a step back and ‘introduce’ our anchor team to the viewers. We thought that having their co-workers drive the narrative was effective, in part because they really appreciate each other’s strengths.”

I was able to talk to Nelligan on the phone at length about these spots and I was struck by how well he knew the members of his main anchor team, anchors Maria Stephanos and Ed Harding, Chief Meteorologist Harvey Leonard, and Mike Lynch, WCVB’s spots director and anchor.

There’s an old adage about sales — a good salesman know his product, and you can tell that Nelligan knows his front-line people well. The only way that happens is to be around them in the newsroom.

“They are smart people and they are very genuine,” says Nelligan.

“You don’t have to be around Maria too long before you realize what an exceptional human being she is. She is the kind of person who you meet and all she does is ask about you. As a result, she just has this way of drawing people out.”

When talking about co-anchor Ed Harding, Nelligan says he’s been in the market a long time and is hard working. “Ed is just like this Energizer Bunny.”

Chief Meteorologist Harvey Leonard has been forecasting the weather in Boston and New England for 40 years. Nelligan says Leonard still gets excited when it’s about to snow.

“He is just really into it, but is so worried that people are depending on my forecast and I have got to get it right. The other meteorologists in town have just the utmost respect.”

According to Nelligan, Mike Lynch is an institution in Boston when it comes to covering the major pro sports teams, but “has carved out a niche covering high school sports for more than 30 years.”

Tags: ABC, advertising, Boston, branding, creative services directors, Ed Harding, Harvey Leonard, Hearst, journalism, local news, Maria Stephanos, Market Share, marketing, Mike Lynch, news marketing, news promotion, Russ Nelligan, TVNewsCheck, WCVB

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