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CBS Boston

U.S. center (mainstream local news, with a network-level shift to the right)

Owned byOwned by the CBS Television Stations group, part of Paramount Skydance Corp. (controlled by David Ellison and Skydance). Search results say Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery closed on October 6, 2026, and the parent was to be renamed Skydance Corporation. I did not confirm this against a primary source.
FundingMostly local and national advertising, plus political ad spending. It also earns retransmission fees from cable and satellite carriers and gets revenue from CBS network affiliation. It is funded as part of the parent company's commercial TV business.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

WBZ began in 1948 as WBZ-TV, one of New England's earliest television stations. It was long tied to Westinghouse. It joined CBS-owned operations after Westinghouse bought CBS in 1995, and the CBS Corporation and Viacom later merged. After the 2019 CBS-Viacom merger the station became part of Paramount Global. Skydance, led by David Ellison, took control of Paramount in 2025. That deal followed a $16 million settlement of Trump's lawsuit over a '60 Minutes' interview, and the FCC approved the merger shortly afterward. In October 2025 Bari Weiss, a former opinion columnist and founder of The Free Press, became editor-in-chief of CBS News. Critics describe that appointment and later changes, including staff cuts and the departure of '60 Minutes' figures such as Scott Pelley, as a move toward the White House's viewpoint. Weiss and CBS have disputed some of those accounts, and Trump has also mocked Weiss at times. CBS Boston's local reporting covers Massachusetts and New England news, weather, sports and politics, and it has no widely documented partisan slant of its own. Its national and political content, though, comes through a network whose ownership and leadership have been seen as friendlier to the administration than before 2025.

Sources

  1. Paramount Skydance Corp - Form 8-K - FY2026 (SEC)
  2. Paramount Skydance Corp - Form 10-Q (June 30, 2026)
  3. CBS News controversies and criticism (Wikipedia)
  4. Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief (NPR)
  5. After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News (OPB)

Profile compiled 2026-10-08; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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