WBZ TV

WBZ-TV is the only Boston television station providing live wire-to-wire coverage of the 2012 Boston Marathon. As the exclusive local broadcaster for the sixth consecutive year, WBZ-TV offers a full range of news, features and athlete interviews, from the predawn hours in Hopkinton to a complete wrap-up on the WBZ-TV News at 11 p.m. Boston’s WBZ-TV is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation. In 2010, WBZ-TV and the Boston Athletic Association renewed their exclusive Boston Marathon partnership for three years through the 116th running of the Boston Marathon in 2012. At the conclusion of this three-year renewal, WBZ-TV will be the only station to have aired 30-years of complete, live, local coverage of one of the region’s premiere sporting events. Please visit www.cbsboston.com, for more information and bonus coverage of the 2012 Boston Marathon.

 

 

B.A.A. Moment 9

1972 - Women Official Entrants in Marathon

Although Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon in 1966, it was not until the 1972 Boston Marathon that women could become official entrants due to a change in AAU rules.