he`s so original

Shannon Ogden is in the know.

 

 

Unless you don’t have access to TV, you’ve seen Shannon deliver the evening news for WTLV/WJXX. He’s not just a talking head, either. He has been reporting for fifteen years, from Brussels to Boston. While he’s usually providing serious information on-screen, the well-read anchor is quick to make you laugh off-camera. He’s also a talented musician; he went to JohnBrownUniversity on a music scholarship for playing drums and he scored his first gig at a bar in sixth grade. “When I was younger, dating me was the worst. I would ask girls to dances and my own band would be playing there,” he laughs. After his internship in Belgium with CNN, he knew that he wanted to be a news anchor. “It was a chance to see the world with a built-in backstage pass,” he says. “At its worst, it’s never boring. You’re always learning something.”

 

 

 

Best thing about reading skirt!?

 

 

 

 

It’s just something else. It doesn’t look like anything else. It doesn’t read like anything else. I like it.

 

 

 

Best thing about wearing a skirt?

 

 

 

 

I like how it swishes when I dance.

 

Online Exclusive: Shannon’s most embarassing moment on the air: he was working in Boston as an anchor. He was in the studio on a commerical break and he and the sports anchor were shooting the breeze. They started reminiscing about that game that kids used to play with their pencils where they laid their hands flat on the table, palm down, and stabbed the pencil into the desk around their fingers--a sort of roulette. Shannon was doing this until they came back from break...only when they came back from break, he was still playing...and still playing...a few seconds he finally looked up and realized he was on the air.