Background
Lavanchy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Walpole, Massachusetts, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication/Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in 1986.
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Gene Lavanchy
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Emerson College.
Career
Gene began his broadcast career in 1983 at WJCC-Department of Administration and Management radio (now WDIS Department of Administration and Management 1170) in Norfolk, Massachusetts as a sports writer and producer. He got his start in television news in 1986, covering sports at WBBH-television in Fort Myers, Florida, was a sports anchor at WLNE-television in Providence, Rhode Island, and also host of WSBK-television"s Boston Bruins telecasts. Coming onto the news scene in 1993 with WHDH in Boston, he became their sports director and sports anchor in 1994.
As time progressed, he also hosted WHDH"s "Sports Xtra" Sunday late night sports program, where he would interview and discuss current topics with many local New England sports stars.
After leaving WHDH, Gene arrived to WFXT in August 2003. Lavanchy and co-host Kim Carrigan, who had also left WHDH, lead one of Boston"s most popular morning news shows.
On December 17, 2007, Lavanchy featured his own Wikipedia article page on WFXT"s Morning News in a segment about finding yourself on the Internet.
