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WHy is former CNN/ESPN/YES sportscaster Fred Hickman doing 5 pm news on NBC33 BR
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:24 pm
Isn't he extremely overqualified to work at the lower-tiered NBC? The other two...same thing. I know he is from NOLA originally, but this dude did the WGN news for years, along with the other gigs. He definitely brings professionalism to an otherwise average news anchor gig in this city. Good for 33 for nabbing him.
*ETA -- still, I do not get why he's here in BR at a news station that is not very well-respected, viewership-wise. Something must have not gone his way somewhere and somehow.
*ETA -- still, I do not get why he's here in BR at a news station that is not very well-respected, viewership-wise. Something must have not gone his way somewhere and somehow.
This post was edited on 9/21/15 at 5:28 pm
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Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:27 pm to PiscesTiger
He has demons
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:28 pm to PiscesTiger
Nobody has a clue who you're talking about baw.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:29 pm to PiscesTiger
Cocaine is a bad drug.
Fred Hickman was money-pretty much as good as it gets.
Fred Hickman was money-pretty much as good as it gets.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:29 pm to Rouge
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He has demons
Yeah I figured. I put 2 and 2 together. Guess it's time to Google although his wiki said nothing about anything very negative.
This is the equivalent to someone like John O'Hurley doing play-by-play for Nichols State.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:30 pm to BRgetthenet
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Nobody has a clue who you're talking about baw
If you are referring to college-aged posters, you are dead right. Otherwise, he's very well-known among us old baws.
Baw.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:31 pm to BRgetthenet
If you had cable in the 80s you do. His show with nick charles on cnn was the the best late night sports show before Patrick/Olbermann took over espn
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:34 pm to Lsupimp
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Fred Hickman was money-pretty much as good as it gets.
Yeah I mean listening to/watching him on BR's last choice for NEWS is like watching Mike Trout playing a rehab stint in Modesto. He's THAT good and the other news people are typical young and attempting-to-move-up/just passing through types. Hickman, demons or not, could have been picked to do CBSevening News when Dan Rather retired and I would not have been shocked. He is solid.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:34 pm to PiscesTiger
From "Deadspin":
• SportsCenter anchor John Anderson still begins his top 10 plays segment by saying "Number 10...Fred." This is an inside joke done to pay homage to Hickman's tenure. The origins of it come from when one PA wrote out the top 10 play list by giving name indications on each play. Number 10, in this case, was given to Hickman and marked "Fred" on the prompter. Hickman, in turn, read "Number 10...Fred " on air. Anderson supposedly asked producers if he should continue with his Hickman joke after he was gone. The answer was a resounding "yes."
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• SportsCenter anchor John Anderson still begins his top 10 plays segment by saying "Number 10...Fred." This is an inside joke done to pay homage to Hickman's tenure. The origins of it come from when one PA wrote out the top 10 play list by giving name indications on each play. Number 10, in this case, was given to Hickman and marked "Fred" on the prompter. Hickman, in turn, read "Number 10...Fred " on air. Anderson supposedly asked producers if he should continue with his Hickman joke after he was gone. The answer was a resounding "yes."
LINK
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:37 pm to Lsupimp
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Cocaine is a bad drug.
Yes it is and I googled those words and came up with this 1993 article below about a coke habit he had before that even. WHat has he done to us lately?
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Wearing shades and a rumpled shirt, fumbling with a pile of carry-on luggage, he appears to be a man running on empty, a man who still isn't completely sold on the idea of flying with a 2-month-old baby.
But compared to how he might have looked eight years ago, Fred Hickman looks like a million bucks.
Were this 1985, Hickman would have had even less sleep. After his show, he would have gone off and snorted a few lines of cocaine.
Hickman, 36, one of the shining lights of network sports television, once had a serious habit. It peaked in 1985, while he was working as a sportscaster in Detroit.
Back then, he figured a toot a day would keep the demons away.
"It was one of those things where - I don't like to make excuses about it - but where I was a young kid and I was in a city that I didn't particularly like," he says. "It was a bad choice of career moves."
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:39 pm to soccerfüt
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From "Deadspin":
• SportsCenter anchor John Anderson still begins his top 10 plays segment by saying "Number 10...Fred." This is an inside joke done to pay homage to Hickman's tenure. The origins of it come from when one PA wrote out the top 10 play list by giving name indications on each play. Number 10, in this case, was given to Hickman and marked "Fred" on the prompter. Hickman, in turn, read "Number 10...Fred " on air. Anderson supposedly asked producers if he should continue with his Hickman joke after he was gone. The answer was a resounding "yes."
JESUS...and this dude is working at THIS station? I mean he had to do more than get hooked on coke back in the 1980's. He's thrived wherever he went.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:56 pm to PiscesTiger
I was wondering where he was headed when he left WVUE Fox 8 in NOLA recently...damn.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 5:57 pm to PiscesTiger
Some suggest that Hickman can be an acquired taste for management.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 6:21 pm to PiscesTiger
Evidently they just redid that entire station. Debuting tonight as far as I know.
Hope they turn that shitstorm around.
Hope they turn that shitstorm around.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:35 pm to Slinky
How did they land him, though? There's no way they can even cut a quarter of a slice into what he was making just as, for instance, the anchor on the WGN News at 9.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:43 pm to LSUMJ
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If you had cable in the 80s you do. His show with nick charles on cnn was the the best late night sports show before Patrick/Olbermann took over espn
I always liked the CNN sports show better than ESPN.
Man, Cancer killed the hell out of Nick Charles....
This post was edited on 9/22/15 at 9:39 am
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:45 pm to PiscesTiger
That's my cousin baw
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:48 pm to LSUMJ
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If you had cable in the 80s you do. His show with nick charles on cnn was the the best late night sports show before Patrick/Olbermann took over espn
Easily the best sports news on TV. They were great. Gave you the goods without the self-serving catch phrase nonsense of ESPN idiots today.
And they were better than Patrick and Olbermann.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:48 pm to Kracka
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Man, Cancer killed the hell out of Nick Charles....
Wow..........
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:33 pm to PiscesTiger
Hard out there for a pimp...
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