Newsperson/Reporter-Sports, WHDH Boston

I don't know anything about this, but I saw it while I was browsing their website and thought someone on here might be interested. Here is the listing:

Job No. 2088

Title: Newsperson/Reporter-Sports
Requirements: Research, report, write, produce and present Sports/News stories for air. 3-5 years of television reporting experience in medium or large market required. Solid journalist, aggressive reporter, excellent writer and outstanding on live shots. College degree preferred. Send tape and resume to Human Resources. WHDH-TV is an EOE employer.

http://www1.whdh.com/jobs/

 

That's probably Julie Donaldson's old job. They're using an occasional free-lancer now. They have two full-timers. The sports director is a solid, straight-laced guy. The second guy is a "cool" guy who cannot use the word "hockey." Instead, he calls it "ice capades." He calls every small athlete a "little motor scooter." Things like that. He's cool.

 

Painfully unlikable sports department, that one is. Fran Charles might have been the last tolerable anchor they had.

 

There's also incredible turnover at that place.

 

If that's the second guy's attitude about hockey, what a terrible hire for WHDH.

 

I suspect it's just him trying to be witty rather than dismissive of the sport -- a poor man's "Now for the night on frozen pond...". if you will.