Monthly Archives: October 2009

Bristol, CT: If You Can Make It There…

Baseball Analyst Steve Phillips is out at ESPN... the 22 year old with whom Phillips had an affair has been fired...and one employee comments...

Sunday Talk

Face the State WFSB   11 a.m Host: Dennis House 2010 Senate Race Tom Foley (R) Roundtable Sue Haigh, Associated Press Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant   The Real Story Fox61 10:30 am   Host: Laurie Perez TBA   The...

Rick Green: All Over the Cheshire Library Story

Recommended reading: Rick Green of the Hartford Courant and his  front page column on the controversy in Cheshire as to whether the town library...

Hardware City Journal

Congratulations are in order for Robin Vinci. Robin, a former New Britain Herald reporter, has started a new weekly in New Britain, the Hardware...

No Longer "Little Kirby"

The more senior WFSB types and alums will remember Gayle King's daughter, Kirby Bumpus, occasionally coming to the old newsroom at Constitution Plaza and...

Horgan on Full Disclosure

Writer/blogger Denis Horgan, a former Hartford Courant columnist, raises concerns that his old paper's "itowns" section runs submitted pieces -sometimes by former writers for...

More Mika…and Jim…and Richard…

Before Mika Brzezinski worked at WFSB she reported for Channel 61, and during that time she traveled to Haiti with AmeriCares (the global...

WFSB Reunion on MSNBC

On Friday morning former WFSB Anchor Gayle King will appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as part of the NBC/MSNBC "A Woman's Nation" series. The...

How Novel: Married Man/Younger Woman Workplace Affair Goes Sour

Steve Phillips, a baseball analyst for Bristol-based ESPN, had an affair with an assistant and now is taking a leave of absence during the...

"Birth of a Blowhard"

Greg Hladky of the Advocate newspapers ponders the question, "Did Glenn Beck hatch his plan to become a right-wing radio megastar right here on...