Abby Chin is a reporter for the Boston Celtics, she is very good at her job and was liked by everyone until NBC Universal decided to lay off some of their staff due to attempts to save money and Abby sadly was one of them. That being said, she was not going away quietly without a fight as her fans rallied around her to let her know she was not alone.
Even though the downsizing reached far beyond the staff of its regional cable sports network in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, San Francisco, and Chicago and it wasn’t really about their competence or performance it was just about saving money which was getting hard to make during a pandemic that has ravaged almost everywhere.
sources reveal that NBC sports decisions were made on the corporate level and the positions lost were similar across the company’s regional networks and the decisions ultimately were out of the hands of the senior vice president and general manager.
After Abby received the news of being fired, she was almost immediately offered the choice to continue working till the end of the season and as she informed her fans on Twitter, she jumped at it saying she was accepting the offer.
Interesting Facts About Abby Chin
1. Her quick biography
Abby was born in 1982, although a specific date and month hasn’t been revealed yet, she attended Desert Vista High school and went ahead to attend the University of Colorado Boulders where she studied and got a Bachelors’s Degree in broadcast journalism.
2. Abby has a rich portfolio
Abby was previously a reporter covering the NBA’s Portland trailblazers and PAC12 football for NBC sports Portland reporter at CBS42, she was also a production assistant for Monday Night Football.
Abby was also appointed production assistant at ESPN which is the biggest sports network on the North American continent, her responsibilities included preparing the scene at sports events for pre and post-game interviews, experts, and everything that is important to sports broadcast. She gained experience and the skill set needed to survive and grow in the sports-reporter industry.
3. Her husband is Mike Schmidt
She is married to Mike Schmidt, a software engineer she met at ESPN in Connecticut, and together they have two children, Madel and Silas John Schmidt.
4. Her father was an immigrant
Abby grew up in a Chinese American family for her father is Chinese and came to the US when he was pretty young, she has two sisters who were her competitors and are her role models.
5. Chin is into sports
She is an avid athlete who enjoys skiing, snowboarding, soccer, gymnastics to mention a few she participated in some of these sports while in high school.
6. She was not done with schooling when she started her career
Abby started her career by getting the position of sports intern at KCNC Channel 4 where she stayed for seven months because she wasn’t done with school yet and has to go back to continue, she debuted as a ski jumping reporter for the 2018 Olympic winter games which was broadcasted on NBC Olympics.
7. A look at Abby Chin’s net worth
Abby Chin has an estimated net worth of about $1 million, and she earns a salary of between $40 to $50 thousand dollars yearly.
8. She is not the tallest woman on any day
Those are big heels too! https://t.co/1FFnGTYLnf
— Abby Chin (@tvabby) June 9, 2016
There is no doubt that Abby is a good-looking woman who is blessed with so much talent. However, she is not the tallest woman you will find as she has a height of only 5 feet, 3 inches, and a weight of 55 kg, ( 121 lbs). She also has black color hair and a pair of black eyes.
9. Her daughter Mabel was born with a heart condition
One of Abby’s children Madel underwent open-heart surgery just 13 days after she was born, this was a trying and frightening time for her family members and gratefully she survived and is growing well.
10 She move to Massachusetts in 2013
She decided to move to Massachusetts in 2013 where she accepted a position at Comcast Sports Net New England(CSNNE). Here her superior decided to integrate her into the team using her best skill.
She focused mainly on covering the Boston Celtics, a basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA) conducting interviews with the players which led her to develop close relationships with players such as Evan Turner and Marcus Smart. She has had the position for more than six years.
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