WBZ Adds Rodriguez As Weekend A.M. Anchor

Anaridis Rodriguez has joined CBS O&O WBZ Boston (DMA 9) as weekend morning anchor. She will also contribute to weekday mornings on WBZ This Morning. Rodriguez begins her new position on Monday, April 3.

She joins the station from The Weather Channel in Atlanta, where she was a news anchor and network correspondent. For three years, she delivered news and contributed to severe weather aftermath coverage for the Weather Channel’s morning show.

Prior to that, Rodriguez was a weekend anchor/reporter for WWLP Springfield, Mass. There, she traveled across the Commonwealth covering the impact of Tropical Storm Irene in Western MA, the heroin crisis in the Pioneer Valley and the Boston Marathon bombing.

A native of Santo Domingo, Rodriguez emigrated from Dominican Republic to Providence, R.I., at the age of 12. She holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Emerson College and bachelor’s degree in communication and Spanish from Rhode Island College.