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November 2004 • Volume 30, No. 2 |
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By Elaine McArdle “Can I get on TV?” It’s a hot August morning in the Gillette Stadium parking lot, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. A little boy in bare feet, his sneakers clutched under one arm, a Patriots cap on his head, has planted himself in front of Rhondella Richardson, AS’90. “You want to be on TV?” Richardson responds, resting her microphone unobtrusively by her side. “Doing what?” Two teenage girls walk by, staring at the attractive woman in the cream-colored sweater and pants. They stop and whisper; they giggle. They know her. “I dunno,” the boy answers, a quizzical look on his face. “Do you have to do something to be on TV?” Richardson laughs. Yes, indeed, you do, especially if you want the kind of visibility she’s earned. If you want not one, but two on-air jobs—general-assignment reporter on weekdays, morning co-anchor on weekends—at NewsCenter 5 on Boston’s ABC affiliate, WCVB-TV. |
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