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Jimmy Young
Your host for
Between The Lines
New England Cable News channel on-air
TV
and radio personality
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Host of Jimmy
Young's Sports World
Highest rated weekly program on NE Cable News
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Five time
Emmy Nominee in five different categories on
three different stations
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Co-founded
the nation's only live television sports talk
show for kids
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Won Emmy
Award for Sports Special of Kids Company's
Sports World with Drew Bledsoe
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Created and
taught educational broadcast training workshop
to kids.
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Business
Consultant
Formally with:
- WGME - CBS - Portland, ME
- WBZ - NBC - Boston, MA
- WEEI - Sports Talk 850 AM -
Boston, MA
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ABOUT HOST JIMMY YOUNG
FOR THE PAST TWENTY-THREE
YEARS, JIMMY HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE BROADCAST INDUSTRY. AFTER STARTING AS AN
INTERN IN 1977 AT WBZ TV WITH JIMMY MYERS, HE QUICKLY BECAME THE WEEKEND
PRODUCER BEFORE GRADUATING TUFTS UNIVERSITY IN 1979 WITH A BA IN HISTORY.
JIMMY’S FIRST JOB IN RADIO WAS AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE POSITION WITH WLYN AM/FM.
IN THE SPRING OF 1980,
HE LAUNCHED HIS FIRST SPORTS TALK SHOW ON SATURDAY
EVENINGS FROM 6-8PM. AFTER A FIRE INTERRUPTED THE BROADCAST OPERATION OF THAT
STATION IN 1981, YOUNG THEN WENT ON TO JOIN WGME TV13, THE CBS AFFILIATE
IN PORTLAND MAINE AS A SPORTS ANCHOR REPORTER. HE SPENT 11 YEARS IN MAINE
ENJOYING A CAREER THAT INCLUDED PLAY BY PLAY, HOST OF A UMAINE COACHES SHOW,
COLOR ANALYSIS AND OTHER LIVE BROADCASTS. IN 1992, HE RETURNED TO HIS HOME TOWN
OF NEWTON TO NECN WHERE HE HOSTED THE 90 MINUTE LIVE VERSION OF SPORTSWORLD FOR
SIX YEARS. NOW AN ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE AT NECN AND A PART TIME SPORTSCASTER, YOUNG
WAS ALSO A FILL IN ON WEEI AS A SPORTS TALK HOST. HE HAS ALSO DONE SOCCER PLAY
BY PLAY AND COLOR FOR THE NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION AS WELL AS BROADCAST THE US
SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS ON FOX SPORTS NEW ENGLAND.
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