Mont Fennel
Senior Producer
Mont FennelMont Fennel was a 16-year veteran at New England Cable News (NECN), and is arguably New England’s most experienced television business reporter. His nightly business reporting on the nation’s largest 24-hour regional news channel reached 3.7 million subscribers in more than 1,050 cities and towns across all six New England states. Fennel’s reporting won four Emmy awards for NECN, and was nominated 17 additional times. “Mont Fennel is an NECN pioneer,” said NECN News Director Thomas R. Melville. “He was on our air on Day One - March 2, 1992 - and he has been there ever since as the only full-time business reporter on television in New England. He is a masterful producer of television news reports. As a master, he has used the medium to bring complex business topics to the small screen in creative and interesting ways. He is a great storyteller.”
“What appealed to me about Mont is his instinctive eye toward finding the core of the story and then using the medium to bring that story alive,” said DigiNovations executive producer Michael Kolowich. “I believe he’ll flourish in the new medium of internet video, just as he’s done in traditional broadcast journalism.”
“We will miss him — in our newsroom and on our air,” noted NECN’s Melville. ” I predict a very bright future for Mont as he brings his vast set of skills to his new position with DigiNovations.”
Fennel also served as Boston correspondent for the Nightly Business Report on public television.
On his last night at work at NECN, his colleagues put together a fun and interesting retrospective of his groundbreaking career: