Arch MacDonald

Arch MacDonald (July 18, 1911, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – June 3, 1985, in Needham, Massachusetts)[1] was an American broadcast journalist and television pioneer in Boston.

When WBZ-TV began television broadcasting in 1948 as an NBC affiliate, MacDonald was the station's first news anchorperson (not called that, as that term was not yet extant).

The program (which was the first on-air job for Natalie Jacobson) was not a financial success and WKBG-TV dissolved its news department at the end of 1970.

MacDonald remained at the station for another year and hosted a weekday morning interview program.

[1] MacDonald was elected to the Academy of New England Journalists in 1967,[3] received the Governor's Award for lifetime achievement from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1983,[1] was honored at a 1984 ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, where a letter from Ronald Reagan describing MacDonald as "a Boston institution" was read,[1] and was elected to the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2009.