NESN and Red Sox Welcome Tina Cervasio

My daughter Tina has really made her husband, parents, sister and other family members and friends uniformly proud.

OK, here's the news: Tina Cervasio-McKearney will be part of this coming season's Red Sox television broadcasts on NESN! She'll be alongside such baseball greats as Dennis Eckersley, Jim Rice, and Jerry Remy!

 

For details on this special opportunity, take a look below the fold.
 

Here's what they have to say about Tina:

NESN also welcomes Tina Cervasio as the network’s new game-day reporter. Cervasio will conduct pre and post-game interviews with Red Sox players, coaches and management, plus deliver in-game updates from the ballpark. Cervasio joins NESN after serving as a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York. She brings 10 years of sports broadcasting experience to NESN, including coverage of the 2006 Winter and 2004 Summer Olympic games for the Westwood One Radio network.

To tell the truth, none of us can wait to get up to Fenway and root for the Sox.

Isn't this good news on the first day of spring? Play ball!!

The new release:

NESN    For immediate release

BASEBALL’S HIGHEST RATED

REGIONAL SPORTS NETWORK 

ANNOUNCES 2006 BOSTON RED SOX

BROADCAST TEAM

BOSTON – NESN, New England’s most watched sports network, announced today the  network’s 2006 Boston Red Sox broadcast team. Don Orsillo will return for his 6^th season as the voice of the Red Sox alongside veteran analyst Jerry Remy who is entering his 19^th season in the NESN booth. The network’s Red Sox play-by-play coverage has won 2 consecutive Emmy Awards, while both Orsillo (2005) and Remy (2004) have been honored as the Massachusetts Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

Tom Caron will return for his 3^rd season as host of the network’s pre and post-game shows. NESN is the only regional network in the country that produces a one-hour pre-game show before every game called Olympia Sports presents The Boston Globe Pre-Game Report. The network also delivers an hour of post-game coverage after every game with WB Mason Extra Innings and Granite City Electric Extra Innings Extra.

NESN’s studio analysts in 2006 will be Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley, returning for his 4^th season on NESN, former Red Sox slugger Jim Rice, who is also back for his 4^th season, and former major league shortstop Gary DiSarcina entering his 2^nd season with the network. New to NESN’s lineup of studio analysts is former Red Sox first baseman Dave McCarty. The 11 year major league veteran retired last season and made 3 guest appearances as a studio analyst on NESN.

NESN also welcomes Tina Cervasio as the network’s new game-day reporter. Cervasio will conduct pre and post-game interviews with Red Sox players, coaches and management, plus deliver in-game updates from the ballpark. Cervasio joins NESN after serving as a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York. She brings 10 years of sports broadcasting experience to NESN, including coverage of the 2006 Winter and 2004 Summer Olympic games for the Westwood One Radio network.

“We are very confident that our talented team of broadcasters will deliver the best game-day coverage in the country,” said Sean McGrail, NESN president. “We are also thrilled that Red Sox fans have made us the highest rated regional sports network in the nation for two consecutive seasons.”

All 149 Red Sox games televised by NESN this season will originate in high definition (HD) making NESN the first regional sports network in the country to offer every game in HD. NESN’s recent move into a new state-of-the-art facility will also allow the network to be the first regional in the nation to originate all pre and post-game programs in high definition.

Comments

[Corrine Cervasio]

Let's get something straight... I may be Tina's biggest fan, but am one of the Yanks' too!

Congrats Tina! Go Yanks!

[Ron Rogers]

I think Jerry and Don are great
sportscasters until they get silly
about a certain situation. This
seems to take away from their
professionalism. A single comment
may be ok but the repetition of it 3 innings later or their infatuation
with women seems out of place for 2
mature men. I don't know if this is super-ego or immaturity. Maybe I'm getting too old. I just wish they would stick to broadcasting. That is where they are best.

Ron Rogers (I saw Jerry at 2nd base)
Leominster, MA
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