Rob Finnerty
Morning Anchor
Rob Finnerty
Morning Anchor
I am really excited to be joining the Eyewitness News Mornings Team. I was raised on Cape Cod, Mass., where I spent the winters dreaming about the sunny skies of Southern California! I grew up during the glory days of Boston sports and I can remember muting the TV as a youngster, clenching my hand into a fist, and pretending it was a microphone so that I could do my own nightly newscasts. I always made my parents laugh, and I think they knew pretty early on what I would be when I grew up!
I left Cape Cod in 2001 to study broadcast journalism at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., where I hosted my own news show on the campus television station. Upon graduation, I was hired as a disc jockey at the top-rated sports talk radio station in Boston, where I worked on a daily sports show. A year later, I was driving to ESPN Radio in Connecticut to co-host a show on the weekends, and not long after that I found myself working as the youngest sports anchor in Boston when I was hired by New England Cable News. It was a great time to be covering sports in Beantown, because it seemed as though every team in town was winning a championship. I was literally thrown into the deep-end of the pool during what turned out to be one of the most exciting periods in Boston sports history. For three years, I interviewed numerous athletes, including Tom Brady, Paul Pierce and David Ortiz, while covering some of the biggest games and events in the city's illustrious sports history.
I love to travel and jog and spend time with my family and friends on "the Cape" (as it's known locally). I am one of four children; my brother Chris lives just outside Boston with his wife and son, my sister Lena actually just moved back to Boston after spending some time in San Diego, and my little brother Sam is in school in our nation's capital! A quick story about Sam; his full name is "Samuel," but when he was younger I convinced him that his middle name was "Uel," so for the first 15 years of his life he was convinced that his full name was "Sam Uel Finnerty," and I've always loved giving him a hard time about it!
Anyway, I'd love to connect with you on Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to track me down (facebook.com/robfinnertytv). And don't forget to tune in at 5 and 6 a.m. on KBAK and 7 and 8 a.m. on KBFX Fox to spend your mornings with me and the rest of the Eyewitness News Morning Team!
I left Cape Cod in 2001 to study broadcast journalism at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., where I hosted my own news show on the campus television station. Upon graduation, I was hired as a disc jockey at the top-rated sports talk radio station in Boston, where I worked on a daily sports show. A year later, I was driving to ESPN Radio in Connecticut to co-host a show on the weekends, and not long after that I found myself working as the youngest sports anchor in Boston when I was hired by New England Cable News. It was a great time to be covering sports in Beantown, because it seemed as though every team in town was winning a championship. I was literally thrown into the deep-end of the pool during what turned out to be one of the most exciting periods in Boston sports history. For three years, I interviewed numerous athletes, including Tom Brady, Paul Pierce and David Ortiz, while covering some of the biggest games and events in the city's illustrious sports history.
I love to travel and jog and spend time with my family and friends on "the Cape" (as it's known locally). I am one of four children; my brother Chris lives just outside Boston with his wife and son, my sister Lena actually just moved back to Boston after spending some time in San Diego, and my little brother Sam is in school in our nation's capital! A quick story about Sam; his full name is "Samuel," but when he was younger I convinced him that his middle name was "Uel," so for the first 15 years of his life he was convinced that his full name was "Sam Uel Finnerty," and I've always loved giving him a hard time about it!
Anyway, I'd love to connect with you on Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to track me down (facebook.com/robfinnertytv). And don't forget to tune in at 5 and 6 a.m. on KBAK and 7 and 8 a.m. on KBFX Fox to spend your mornings with me and the rest of the Eyewitness News Morning Team!