{"id":28,"date":"2010-09-19T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-09-19T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T17:00:09","slug":"do-you-have-to-be-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2010\/09\/19\/do-you-have-to-be-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have to be From Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pronounce it “Glou-ces-ter” or “Pea-BODY” and the phone will ring!…If you’re lucky it won’t be your News Director (if he\/she knows the difference)….Confuse Doug with Darren or Billy or Billy Jr. and your editor will stare at you with daggers!..The point being, you’re not supposed to know everything about your new hometown but as a newcomer it sure helps…<\/p>\n

Moving to a new market is daunting at any stage…Coming out of college and landing in Panama City or Idaho Falls isn’t what you hoped for but it’s part of the process and as skeptical as you are about them, make no mistake, you’re the “new kid on the block” and have to prove yourself…In smaller markets you can start slower but make a big leap and you’re in the thick of it…<\/p>\n

At the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series recently Jackie Pepper<\/a> of Comcastsportsnet New England tried to make the jump from market number 162 to Boston, currently number seven according to AC Nielsen…Said Pepper, “One of the reasons Comcast turned me down three times was because i had no ties to the area. \u00a0And that was very important to them. \u00a0It’s been a sizable disadvantage and it’s really tough”…A new town, new faces, new teams and no personal background, a tough act to pull off…<\/p>\n

A relatively fresh face to the dot.com platform, Jeff Howe<\/a> was no stranger to the area, however…A graduate of UMass, Howe worked at dailies in Worcester and Boston as well as the MetroWest before joining the stable at NESN,com…While new to the video world his background and familiarity with the workings of the local scene were invaluable and he made the transition seamlessly, “If you know the area, you automatically know the history of all the teams you grew up watching”…No small difference…<\/p>\n

But the point is, every<\/em> place you go, you’ll be the one who just moved to town and it’s your job to figure out what it takes to do the job there…In the smaller markets it’s introducing yourself around, the high school coaches and athletes and if you’re lucky, the same people on a small college level…Remember, you are both newcomers…you’re gonna have a full plate, first job and all, making relationships, learning your craft (including making your mistakes) and positioning yourself for the next move…Pepper was in Idaho Falls, Idaho for fourteen months and says she just felt like she was getting comfortable when the call came to Boston…Time to start the process all over again…<\/p>\n

Find someone you can trust…Ask questions…And if you’re luck enough to get back to Boston, there’s an Eastie, and a Southie, but no Northie or Westie!..Wareham and Dedham are pronounced differently…There’s \u00a0“Z” in Quincy and Swampscott has a “U”…more to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pronounce it “Glou-ces-ter” or “Pea-BODY” and the phone will ring!…If you’re lucky it won’t be your News Director (if he\/she knows the difference)….Confuse Doug with Darren or Billy or Billy Jr. and your editor will stare at you with daggers!..The point being, you’re not supposed to know everything about your new hometown but as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}