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Jimmy Young has been an on air sportscaster in New England for over 30 years.
He started as a producer on WBZ TV4 in Boston while attending Tufts University. His first on air job was as a sports talk show host on WLYN AM/FM in 1980. He moved on to the CBS affiliate in Portland, Maine WGME TV from 1981-1992. While there he sharpened his skills as a Weeknight Sports Anchor, U Maine Coaches Show host, Play by Play and Color Analyst and award winning sports reporter.
In 1992 he returned to his home town of Newton, Massachusetts to join the original on air sports staff for New England Cable News, the nation’s largest 24 hour regional newschannel. There he hosted his own 90 minute sports wrap up and talk show called “Jimmy Young’s SportsWorld.” He also served as part of the original broadcast team for the New England Revolution MLS team and filled in and hosted a variety of sports talk shows in the Boston market. He continues to fill in on NECN as host of Sports Late Night, anchoring and reporting.
Bob Halloran began his tenure as weekend sports anchor at WCVB in January 2003.
Before joining WCVB’s SportsCenter 5, Halloran was at ESPNews where he spent three years as an anchor and writer for ESPN.com. Prior to ESPN, Halloran worked at Boston’s WFXT-TV Channel 25 as a weekend sports anchor for three years.
He also spent five years at WPRI-TV in Providence, R.I., as Sports Director and four years at WCVX-TV in Hyannis, Mass., first as Sports Director then moving to News Director.
Bob is the recipient of a New England Emmy Award and two honors from the Associated Press.
Sonia Cormier is a 28 year old graduate of Framingham State with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts, concentrating in Visual Media Production. She joined Young Broadcasters of America in the summer of 2009 as a full time intern and quickly became a mentor for the Trendy Teen Tv girls. Using her natural leadership skills developed in her native Vermont, she has developed her YBA originally produced program into a perfect blend of entertainment, fun and news for teen-agers. Sonia is a great role model for young girls who are building their confidence and communication skills. Sonia enjoys the challenges and rewards that come with working with young people and feels that communication skills are vital for individual empowerment. A former All Star soccer player in college, Sonia is an avid outdoors explorer, enjoys sports, and is a certified personal trainer who teaches spinning at GStar fit, a local boutique gym in Needham.
Jimmy Myers has over 30 years of broadcast experience in TV and Radio.
He has worked as sports anchor at WBZ TV in Boston, WOR TV in New York, ESPN and WFXT TV Boston. He is one of the most provocative sports talk radio hosts of all time and can be heard every Sunday on Boston’s FM Talk Station WTKK 96.9.
“Coach Myers” has done play by play, color analysis and sideline reporting. He has worked in the city of Boston for years at the Shelburne Center and is a devoted youth basketball coach in Boston.
Jerry Trupiano hosted a talk show for fourteen years in Houston and called games for MLB’s Houston Astros (1985-86), the Montreal Expos (1989-90), the World Hockey Association’s Houston Aeros (1974-78), the National Basketball Association’s Houston Rockets (1978-80), the National Football League’s Houston Oilers (1980-89), Southwest Conference Football (1978-88) and called three games on CBS Radio Game of the Week in 1991 before joining Joe Castiglione in the Red Sox’ radio booth in 1993.
In August 2009, Trupiano returned to the air on a regular weekend sports call-in show on 98.5 The Sports Hub Radio (WBZ-FM) in Boston.
Joe Joyce is NECN’s weekend meteorologist. He joined NECN in August of 1997 after working at WVII-TV in Bangor, Maine for two years. He graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Joyce also has a degree in Meteorology from Mississippi State University, and is a contributing member of the Blue Hill Weather Observatory and the American Red Cross. He has earned an AMS Seal from the American Meteorological Society and is certified by the National Weather Association. Joyce grew up with a deep love of the weather. He thrives on the challenge of forecasting New England weather and enjoys the changes of the seasons.
Sean Grande is the current radio play by play voice of the 17 time World Champion Boston Celtics on the WEEI AM 850 broadcast network. He has broadcast basketball for 19 consecutive years including three on TV as the voice of the Minnesota Tiberwolves when at age 28 was the youngest play by play broadcaster in the league.Grande’s spent seven seasons calling hockey, football and basketball on both television and radio for the Boston University Terriers. In 1996, he moved to Boston College, as the voice of the Eagles football and hockey radio networks for three seasons until 1999. On the television side, Grande was the original voice of the Hockey East Game of the Week on Fox Sports Net. His college hockey work for Fox and the NCAA Tournament has garnered him three New England Emmy nominations including the 1999 Emmy for best Play-by-Play. He’s served six years as the television voice of the NCAA East Regional. 2007, his 19th consecutive year broadcasting the sport, concluded with his fourth turn as “Voice of the Frozen Four” on CBS Radio. His broadcast career included a seven-year stint at WEEI (1991-1998), the final three as Sports Director. He has deep depth of play by play just about every sport including soccer. In 2003, readers of the Boston Sports Media watch named him the best play by play man in the market.
Matt Stavropoulos is a media artist and producer from Massachusetts. After graduating from CDIA at BU, Matt began work in the film industry around Boston in various capacities. Shortly after he moved to Salt Lake City and began working as an editor for two major production companies as well as working as a producer for award winning film maker, Stephen Williams. These experiences left Matt well-rounded for his proceeding freelance pre and post-production business he ran before joining YBA. Matt now works side by side with his staff and students to create new and exciting content for the web. He is always willing to experiment, broaden horizons, and keep fresh with new technology, and has been involved in helping Young Broadcasters realize its true media center potential.
