Longtime WCVB anchor and reporter Jim Boyd dies at 84
The gist
Longtime WCVB anchor and reporter Jim Boyd, who worked nearly four decades at the station, died at 84.
He rose from a TV mailroom to the anchor desk and later appeared in films.
How it unfolded
- 1961Boyd began his career in public television in the mailroom of WNET-TV in New York, after being academically dismissed from Long Island University.
- 1972He joined WCVB-TV as a general assignment reporter.
- 2008He retired from WCVB.