Tom Caron serves as studio host for NESN's Boston Red Sox coverage. His duties include hosting the network's one-hour pre-game show Oympia Sports presents The Boston Globe Pre Game Show and the network's Red Sox post-game shows WB Mason Extra Innings and Granite City Electric Extra Innings Extra. The Lewiston, Maine native also serves as NESN's play-by-play announcer for Hockey East telecasts and blogs regularly on NESN.com. The multi-talented announcer joined NESN in 1995 as co-host of Front Row, a nightly sports magazine program.
Caron began his career as a sports reporter covering the Vermont Reds, Cincinnati's AA affiliate, for a daily newspaper in Vermont. His first on-air work came as sports anchor for WPTZ-TV in Plattsburgh, New York in 1986, where he worked as a beat reporter covering the Montreal Canadians and Montreal Expos.
After a stint as sports anchor at WNNE-TV in Hanover, New Hampshire, Caron moved onto WGME-TV in Portland, Maine in 1988. Caron stayed at WGME for five years anchoring nightly sportscasts, hosting weekly ski segments and producing a number of half-hour specials each year.
In 1993 Caron was hired by the Portland Pirates to serve as their radio play-by-play announcer and communications director. While working with the Pirates, Caron also served as the play-by-play announcer for the New England Stingers of Roller Hockey International and as a sports reporter at WPXT-TV in Portland. In addition to hosting a weekly hockey feature at WPXT, Caron also served as the station's play-by-play announcer for local and professional sports.
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