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INSIDE SPORTS ON WFAS

BIO:

Jim Campion has been a major voice on the subject of local and national sports in the greater Westchester and Putnam counties for nearly a decade. Appearing as a newspaper columnist, and television and radio personality since 1989, he's combined a bizarre wit and keen knowledge of the subject to his many projects.

With the inception of his weekly one-hour produced and hosted television sports talk format, The Sports Club Live on Cablevision's Channel 34 (1989-'96) he's either hosted or co-hosted a live sports oriented show for 8 years running. Included was WLNA Radio's weekly 3-hour Sportsnite show with co-host Tom Ragone (1993-'95) covering local and national sports with reports from area sports writers, High School and College coaches, and personalities from the front office to the locker room in every professional sport, and Channel 6's most popular show, Sports Talk Live (1995-1997), a weekly one-hour rant and rap with callers from northern and southern Westchester and Rockland counties.

In 1990 he created, produced, edited, and hosted an on-location baseball interview show called The X-TRA Inning (1990-94). The pre-recorded half hour program which always opened with the statement, "The show that investigates and celebrates America's passion with its national past time," aired on both Channel 34 and Continental Cablevision's Channel 6. Featuring such notable guests as the late Mel Allen, All-Star, Ken Griffey Jr., then commissioner of Major League Baseball, Fay Vincent, lauded author, Roger Kahn, and several N.Y. Yankees and Mets, it provided fans with an inside look at their heroes while attempting to return the otherwise crass business to baseball back to the brilliant game it has always been.

During his tenure on the air waves Jim has followed his childhood dream of writing by serving as weekly columnist in the North County News. Sports Shorts (1993-1995) provided readers with a more indepth and often serious foray into a wide spectrum of issues. He recently penned a full page column called The Last Shot (1995-1997) for the New Jersey entertainment magazine, The East Coast Rocker.

Jim met co-host Rob Astorino in 1990 when the duo became the play-by-play team for Continental Cablevision's award winning High School Football Game of The Week. For 6 years, including a few years of H.S. basketball, the broadcast was the most slick and comprehensive coverage of High School sports in New York State. In essence Rob and Jim became the voice of local sports together, calling the action of every big game including Bowls and Championship contests, while bringing a generation of fine, young athletes to thousands of homes.