Colorado Media Newsroom
April 15th, 2014, 04:06 PM
From The Denver Post:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/files/2014/04/20130328__20130331_E1_AE31ZAPPOLOp1-495x339.jpg
Ron Zappolo, 2013, photo by Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post
9News has hired a big-name Denver anchor, and long-time competitor, out of retirement. Ron Zappolo, who “retired” temporarily (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22894770/longtime-denver-tv-anchor-ron-zappolo-signing-off) last year, will return to TV and to his first love, sports, as a KUSA weekend sports conversationalist. Not an anchor, not a reporter, but a well-known presence injecting a personal style into watercooler stories involving sports.
He’ll be paired with Sam Adams, Denver comedian and sportswriter (for the Rocky Mountain News), to talk sports as a segment within the newscast.
KUSA President and General Manager Mark Cornetta calls the move an “experiment,” as a way to inject talk about sports, sometimes in a debate style, in the weekend newscast. “As with anything, if it is good, there is the possibility it could expand,” Cornetta said.
Zappolo left Fox31 last April with the intention of “reinventing myself one more time.” Zappolo had been considered Denver’s premiere sports anchor in previous stints at Channels 4 and 9, before taking a chance on becoming a news anchor for Channel 31.
More... (http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2014/04/15/ron-zappolo-return-9news-experiment/18281/)
http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/files/2014/04/20130328__20130331_E1_AE31ZAPPOLOp1-495x339.jpg
Ron Zappolo, 2013, photo by Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post
9News has hired a big-name Denver anchor, and long-time competitor, out of retirement. Ron Zappolo, who “retired” temporarily (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22894770/longtime-denver-tv-anchor-ron-zappolo-signing-off) last year, will return to TV and to his first love, sports, as a KUSA weekend sports conversationalist. Not an anchor, not a reporter, but a well-known presence injecting a personal style into watercooler stories involving sports.
He’ll be paired with Sam Adams, Denver comedian and sportswriter (for the Rocky Mountain News), to talk sports as a segment within the newscast.
KUSA President and General Manager Mark Cornetta calls the move an “experiment,” as a way to inject talk about sports, sometimes in a debate style, in the weekend newscast. “As with anything, if it is good, there is the possibility it could expand,” Cornetta said.
Zappolo left Fox31 last April with the intention of “reinventing myself one more time.” Zappolo had been considered Denver’s premiere sports anchor in previous stints at Channels 4 and 9, before taking a chance on becoming a news anchor for Channel 31.
More... (http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2014/04/15/ron-zappolo-return-9news-experiment/18281/)