Profile - Bill LaPlante

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Member since: Saturday, 25 June 2016

Last Visit: Wednesday, 31 March 2021

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Member type: Journalist
Name: Bill LaPlante
Country based in: USA
Website: http://www.mediaalliance.com
Profile: 5-time Emmy earner for CBS and ABC-TV O & O stations in Detroit and NYC flagship. Founding Sr. Prod. of ABC's Satellite NewsChannel (world's FIRST all-live, 24-hr. cable news network). Wrote news, sports, media column or travel/food/bev topics for UPI, The Washington Post, Gannett Newspapers (publishers of USA Today), Hartford (CT) Magazine, Florida Weekly, The Hartford (CT) Times, The Waterbury (CT) Republican-American, The Torrington (CT) Register, et al. Broke murder of John Lennon outside Dakota on CPW, NYC; interviewed three sitting U.S. presidents, covered Woodstock (the first one!), Watkins Glen ('70) and helped fire David Letterman--a few years ago. Former pro tennis instructor, ice hockey coach/referee and fisherman.

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