| Frank Cipolla | |
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Frank Cipolla |
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| Born | Queens, New York |
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| itshockedevenus.com | |
Frank Cipolla is an award winning American television and radio news broadcaster and author.
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Frank Cipolla grew up in Queens, NY where he graduated from[1] Saint John's University. While attending college he worked on the university radio and TV stations and interned at WPIX-FM and WNBC (AM) in New York City.
Upon graduation, Frank was hired at WCRV in Washington, NJ and later moved over to WJDM[2] in Elizabeth, New Jersey. At both stations he served as News Director. During that time he also filed radio reports for many New York radio stations and in July 1986 was hired full time as the afternoon news anchor for the Soupy Sales Radio Show on WNBC. There he worked along side Howard Stern, Alan Bebee, Frank Reid and Don Imus – occasionally filling in for newsman Charles McCord on the ‘Imus in the Morning Show'.
In 1989, when WNBC’s frequency was sold to Sports Radio WFAN, Frank moved over to the All Sports Station as its afternoon news anchor before moving into local television news. Frank launched the first live call in news talk show at Time Warner Cable in Staten Island before being hired at the just launched News 12 New Jersey in March 1996. There, with Mizar Turdiu, Frank co-hosted the popular Morning Edition. It regularly beat WABC, CNN, Headline News, WCBS-TV in the New Jersey morning show ratings race.
In April 2001, Frank was hired as a reporter at UPN 9 in NYC (WWOR-TV). He later served as a fill-in anchor working and anchoring along side Rolland Smith, Brenda Blackmon, Cathleen Trigg, Cora-Ann Mahalik and Harry Martin. Frank is currently a network News Anchor at the Wall Street Journal Radio Network.[3] His twice-hourly reports can be heard on hundreds of stations coast to coast. In April, 2005 Frank was inducted into the Christ the King High School Hall of Fame.
Frank is the author of "It Shocked Even Us!”'' a look at his 30-years in radio and TV news, which was released in the Spring of 2011. A portion of the proceeds will go to the "Broadcasters Foundation of America". The foundation provides financial aid to broadcasters who through illness, accident or advanced age find themselves in acute need[4].
Frank lives with his wife in New Jersey.
Cipolla, Frank (2011), "It Shocked Even Us!" And More Crazy Stories Covering Local News, Taryn Vinik, ISBN 978-0-578-08140-3, http://itshockedevenus.com/
Ellen Montemarano (19 May 2011). "Broadcaster gives back to the industry he loves". Suburban. http://sub.gmnews.com/news/2011-05-19/Front_Page/Broadcaster_gives_back_to_the_industry_he_loves.html. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
Carol Ann Benanti (13 May 2011). "NEW AUTHOR". silive.com. http://blog.silive.com/inside_out_column/2011/05/staten_island_korean_war_vet_whos_patriotic_to_his_corps.html. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
Richard Huff (13 May 2011). "Reporting from the field harder than it looks, says former WWOR anchor". nydailynews.com. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/05/13/2011-05-13_a_frank_look_at_local_news.html. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
All Access (05 May 2011). "Book From New York Newsman Frank Cipolla Coming May 15th". allaccess.com. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/91006/book-from-new-york-newsman-frank-cipolla-coming-ma%20-. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
njrm (19 April 2011). "NJRM’s Frank Cipolla’s “It Shocked Even Us!”". The New Jersey Radio Museum. http://njrm.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/njrms-frank-cipolla-inks-new-book-it-shocked-even-us-2/. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
WTNH Morning Show (21 May 2011). Author Frank Cipolla 'It Shocked Even Us' (Television interview). New Haven, Connecticut: WTNH. http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/on_air/gmc_weekend/author-frank-cipolla-it-shocked-even-us.
"Better Connecticut" WFSB-TV Channel 3 (20 May 2011). WFSB-3 Connecticut: Author Frank Cipolla Talks About 'It Shocked Even Us' (Television interview). Hartford, Connecticut: WFSB-TV Channel 3. http://www.myfitv.com/videos/857518/wfsb-3-connecticut-author-frank-cipolla-talk-about-it-shocked-even-us.
The Alan Colmes Show (18 May 2011). VIDEO: BEHIND THE SCENES (Radio interview). - Fox Radio. http://radio.foxnews.com/2011/05/19/video-behind-the-scenes/.
Gary Gellman (8 May 2011). Frank Cipolla on Let's Talk with Gary Gellman, Part 2 (Television interview). - OnHoldServices. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-oESEBN5c.
Gary Gellman (8 May 2011). Frank Cipolla on Let's Talk with Gary Gellman, Part 1 (Television interview). - OnHoldServices. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meRgM9Q4NNo.
[http://klif.com/Portals/3/UserFiles/User68564/Frank_Cipolla_w_Bolton.mp3 " Frank appears with host Jeff Bolton on KLIF-AM in Dallas talking about "It Shocked Even Us!" "]