Heather Vitale
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Heather Vitale is a television journalist for the sport of Standardbred horse racing (harness racing).[1][2]
Education
A graduate of Monmouth University (New Jersey) in 1994, Vitale graduated Cum Laude with Bachelor of Arts. She had major in Public Relations and a minor in Journalism.[3]
Career
Vitale is the host of POST TIME, which airs on the CBS affiliate WBOC-TV in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. She has been the weekly half-hour show about harness racing since its inception (July 1998).[4] From 2008 until 2015 she has co-hosted PA HARNESS WEEK, a weekly Comcast Philadelphia program, with Steve Ross.[5]
Vitale has covered harness racing nationally. In 1997, she was part of the espn2 broadcasting team for The American Championship Harness Racing Series.[6] In 2010, Vitale was the paddock correspondent on MAV-TV during the live Breeders Crown event at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono.[7][8] In 2011, she was on the live Breeders Crown broadcast team for MAV-TV and The Score (Canadian sports channel).
In recent years, she has been covering harness racing outside of the United States. In 2014 and 2015, Vitale was an on-air reporter for The Vincent Delaney Memorial at Portmarnock Raceway in Ireland. She also traveled to Perth, Australia in December 2015 to report on the Inter Dominion at Gloucester Park. On Inter Dominion Day she reported from the paddock during the live national broadcast across Australia.[9]
She was part of the broadcast team for the national Little Brown Jug shows airing on CBS Sports in 2014 and 2015.[10]
Awards
2014 - Double winner at the U.S. Harness Writers Association's (USHWA) Dan Patch Awards[11]
References
- ^ "The Dan Patch Awards: Harness Racing's Night Of Stars". GoodTime Nation. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Irish Harness Racing Industry Profiled". StandardBred Canada.
- ^ "A conversation with Heather Vitale". Harness Link. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Heather Vitale documentary on Delaney Memorial". HarnessLink.
- ^ "A conversation with Heather Vitale". HarnessLink.
- ^ "The Dan Patch Awards: Harness Racing's Night Of Stars". GoodTime Nation. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ Harness Racing Update (PDF). Harness Racing Update. July 12, 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Harness: Meadowlands Pace, Little Brown Jug to be televised". Racing Daily Form. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Heather Heads Downunder". Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Looney Family heading to Ireland in August". Harness Link. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ^ "Dover Downs 46th season highlights". HarnessLink. Retrieved 16 March 2016.