Photos: The Senator's Wife Leaves WCVB
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/slideshow/politics/23829119/detail.htmlWJLA's new hire from Massachusetts -- Gail Huff -- is politically well connected
By Lisa de Moraes
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Gail Huff has been hired by WJLA, Washington's ABC station, as a part-time special project reporter. You may know her as Mrs. Scott Brown, wife of the new Republican senator from Massachusetts.
The station says Huff will do medical, consumer and investigative stories -- but will steer clear of politics.*
Huff, who has been working at WCVB-TV in Boston for the past 17 years, will start at Channel 7 after Labor Day, according to the news release WJLA is going to put out Tuesday, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post.
She signed a two-year contract with the station -- which dovetails with the shortened term her husband won in the Massachusetts special election. Her deal was arranged by Bob Barnett, the local lawyer and talent maven who also brokered WJLA's hiring of weatherman Bob Ryan, who was an institution at WRC, Washington's NBC station.
WJLA is owned by Albritton Communications, which, in addition to owning a number of TV stations around the country, owns the newspaper and Web site PoliticoMore:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/07/AR2010060704367.html*Because we all know there's never anything political connected to things like medicine and consumer issues. :sarcasm:
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Scott Brown's wife has a curious hand
http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2010/01/22/gail_huff_music_video