RIP Don Gillis

"In 1951, following a short stint at New Bedford radio station WBSM, Mr. Gillis was hired by WHDH radio in Boston through an open audition, launching a legendary career that included broadcasting games of the city's four professional sports teams and becoming Boston's first television sports anchor at WHDH (now WCVB-TV, Ch. 5), in 1962.

"They [the viewers] were kind enough to invite me into their houses every night," Mr. Gillis once said. "The least I could do was give them a reason to ask me back."

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/04/25/don_gillis_a_sports_anchor_for_decades_in_boston_at_85/