Doug Meehan Joins WCVB As Weekend Anchor

Veteran anchor and Cape Cod native, Doug Meehan will join Hearst’s ABC affiliate WCVB Boston (DMA 8) as weekend morning anchor and general assignment reporter beginning Saturday, Dec. 19.

Meehan previously worked at five television stations in New England, as well as hosting his own Boston radio program. Meehan will co-anchor Saturday morning (5-7 and 8-9 a.m.) and Sunday morning (5-7 and 8-10 a.m.) newscasts with Antoinette Antonio.

Meehan returns to Boston from KPNX Phoenix, where for nearly three years was a news anchor.  For nearly two years prior to that, he was host of The Doug Meehan Show on Boston’s WTKK-FM FM as well as a contributor on The Wall Street Journal Radio Network in New York.

For more than six-and-a-half years before that, Meehan was a reporter and anchor at Boston’s WFXT where he was the market’s first full-time helicopter reporter covering traffic as well as breaking news. 

Prior to that, Meehan worked at Boston’s WHDH as a reporter and relief anchor. For six years before that, Meehan was an anchor at KTVT and WFAA, both Dallas; WTSP Tampa, Fla.; and KEYE Austin, Texas.

Before leaving New England, Meehan was a news, weather, and sports anchor at WPRI Providence, R.I., and prior to that he was a reporter at New England Cable News. He began his news career as an anchor and reporter at Cape 11 News in South Yarmouth, MA.        

Meehan graduated from Westfield State University in Westfield, Mass., earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communications with concentrated study in broadcasting.