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Briggs at FOX
By Michael Page | April 6, 2008
Just a few months after leaving WHDH, Dave Briggs turned up on WFXT last night. When he left 7, Dave started working with Comcast SportsNet, so this new FOX gig is likely just some filling in.
Topics: WFXT (Channel 25) | 15 Comments »
April 6th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
i heard dave role at comcast sports net might be expaning
April 6th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Ryan Asselta just became a new daddy so Dave is probably just freelancing for a short while.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I saw Dave Briggs on FOX 25 for the first time the last 2 nights. It seems like yesterday that he was at Channel 7. Is Dave Briggs only at Fox 25 as a freelancer or is he looking into WBZ-TV 4 as well when Bob Lobel leaves the station?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
He is likely there freelancing; in terms of WBZ, it seems that Steve Burton will be taking Lobel’s place.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Steve Burton should have been the one let go. I think it should be Dan Roache on the weekdays (which i know will not happen becuase of his schedule) and Alice Cook on the weekends.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I like Dan Roche; he’s good at what he does. I don’t feel nearly the same about Steve Burton. Sadly, he isn’t going anywhere because I think he feels a sense of entitlement in getting the top spot at WBZ and will probably last at least as long at the station as Lobel did.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
It seems that Steve Burton has a good rapport with many football players, and Dan Roche has great rapport with all professional athletes, especially the Red Sox players.
During the on-field celebrations and live locker room interviews Dan always gets good responses. I think many of the pros actually like Dan and trust him — it seems to come across that way.
Question: With the day of the high priced anchors now gone — what do these journeymen and women anchors make? $40, $50, $60 thousand a year, or are they flying in the area of $100K or more?
With a new batch of eager, good looking, and competent media types graduating from Emerson College every year is the market soft to the tune of $25 to $40 thousand a year as the top paycheck for an on air reporter?
Inquiring minds want to know what you think of the pay scale of Boston news reporters and anchors.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Now a radio reporter, former tv reporter, tells me that reporters make somewhere in the tune of 40-80K and that is as well as weekend anchors who dont make much more but the weekday anchors of a station make close to 120-160K a year…from what i hear
April 9th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
The collapse of the high salaries was bound to happen when the supposed inarguable linkage between a ‘top-flight’ anchor and ratings was proven to be a laughable charade. The real inarguable linkage is what’s happening now and what’s happening to Katie Couric. Her problems simply popped the whole notion that high-priced anchors–>ratings. Can you imagine some anchor or agent trying to pitch that value proposition now? They’d be laughed out the building in a nanosecond. It’s about time.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Even $80,000 does not seem like a large salary for a reporter at a major market television station. What are the AFTRA minimums for such work?
Speaking of unions, I read that Channel 25′s technicians have joined IBEW. That is one station that needs a union.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I thought that some of these anchors were making $200? in the Boston market?
April 11th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
News that makes your jaw hit the floor… Briggs will guest anchor “Fox & Friends” on Fox News this weekend. I should hasten to add it’s NOT a permanent gig or even an indication that he’s been hired by FNC. Just… wow!
April 12th, 2008 at 7:00 am
I THINK THE ANCHORS WHO BEEN IN BOSTON THE LONGEST TIME MAKE TOP MONEY
June 27th, 2008 at 7:43 am
“dave brigss” —
lose this guy. FAST.
even duuuzy is better, and that’s NOT saying much.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I disagree wholeheartedly about Dan Roche. He has very distracting mannerisms, very unprofessional, and he is hard to look at.