Two Very Different Things…
Fox News host Heather Childers was very excited to announce on Tuesday that the UConn men were the new “NAACP National Champs.” The problem is the Huskies are the new NCAA basketball champions, not...
View ArticleIce Bucket Recap
A couple weeks ago Dennis House called on Ted Kennedy Jr. to take the ALS ice bucket challenge. He did and Kennedy in turn challenged UCONN President Susan Herbst to do the same. Here are both...
View ArticleWomen Huskies
Coming soon to ESPN, a three part documentary on UCONN women’s Husky basketball. This weekend past players, including Sue Bird and Maya Moore stopped by the Ansonia Armory which was turned into...
View ArticleGood Luck Scott
The WTIC-AM morning team said its goodbyes this morning to long time morning sportscaster and evening sports reporter Scott Gray. This was Scott’s last day on the air after his surprise retirement...
View ArticleMorning Tara
NBC CT is moving Tara Joyce to mornings. She’s joining the team of Todd Piro, Bob Maxon and Heidi Voight as a weekday morning anchor. Tara started at the station last year as a reporter and weekend...
View ArticleCourant Hires
Steve Singer. One of Connecticut’s most prolific business news writers is leaving the Associated Press bureau in Hartford to join the Hartford Courant. Steve Singer, who has been with the AP for 17...
View ArticleLobo and Pauley
The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for 2016 and the list includes two broadcasters. Former UConn standout and television sports analyst Rebecca Lobo will be inducted...
View ArticleUConn J-School 50
This weekend UConn journalism students past and present – mostly past – were on campus to celebrate the journalism department’s 50th anniversary. Tom Breen wrote an article about the beginnings of the...
View ArticleHuskies on HBO
In two weeks, the 2016-17 women’s basketball team at UConn will be the subject of a multi-part series on HBO. The real time documentary will follow the Huskies in the pursuit of a fifth national...
View ArticleJoe D Signs Off Afternoons
WTIC’s best known sports utility player Joe D’Ambrosio is signing off from afternoon sports talk. D’Ambrosio announced at the beginning of his Friday program that WTIC-AM will replace afternoon sports...
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