SportsDesk is a former sports news television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 show that was shown every day on the New England Sports Network

New England Sports Network

The New England Sports Network, or NESN [NESS-en], is a regional cable television network that covers the six New England states except Fairfield County, Connecticut and Southbury, Connecticut, a town in New Haven County, Connecticut which is covered by New York City sports networks...

, USA. The last current primary anchors were Cole Wright and Jade McCarthy

Jade McCarthy

Jade McCarthy an American sportscaster who is a former host of NESN Daily on NESN.Prior to joining NESN, McCarthy was a sports anchor at WCAU in Philadelphia where she won numerous Sports Emmy Awards. She started her career at WGGB-TV in Springfield, Massachusetts. She then moved to WAFF, the NBC...

. Various reporters included Kathryn Tappen

Kathryn Tappen

Kathryn Tappen is an American sportscaster who currently works for the NHL Network.Tappen began her career at CSTV in 2003, where she hosted a variety of programs....

, Heidi Watney

Heidi Watney

Heidi Watney is the Boston Red Sox on-field reporter for NESN. Prior to joining NESN, Watney was a weekend sports anchor for KMPH in Fresno, California...

, Naoko Funayama

Naoko Funayama

Naoko Funayama is a Japanese American sportscaster who currently serves as a rinkside reporter for Boston Bruins games on NESN.A graduate of Williams College and the Boston University College of Communication, Funayama got her start at Adelphia Cable 10 in Frederick, Maryland. In August 2004 she...

, and Jayme Parker on a rare basis. Frequent guests included Tony Massarotti

Tony Massarotti

Anthony 'Tony' Massarotti is an American newspaper sportswriter, author and online and print contributor for the Boston Globe. He also co-hosts a sports talk radio show on WBZ-FM with former Boston Herald columnist Michael Felger...

, Dana Barros

Dana Barros

Dana Bruce Barros is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers....

, James Murphy, and Shalise Manza Young. Mike Adams stopped by to play "Take It Or Leave It."

Air times

SportsDesk morning edition aired between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. The mid-day edition aired at noon. The live edition aired at 10 pm or following Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

 or Boston Bruins

Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...

 coverage. On July 24, 2010, SportsDesk aired its last live episode. The show was replaced by NESN Daily on August 5, 2010, hosted by Jade McCarthy and Uri Berenguer

Uri Berenguer

Uri Berenguer-Ramos is the play-by-play announcer for the Boston Red Sox Spanish Beisbol Network.Berenguer joined the Spanish Beisbol Network in 2002 as a statistician, engineer, pregame and postgame host, and play-by-play announcer. He had previously worked as a statistician for WEEI and in the...

. Sportsdesk head anchor Cole Wright transitioned into a reporter role for the new show, but was dropped by the network in November 2010.

Hosts

• Amy Stone
  Amy Stone
  Amy Stone is a former American television personality.Stone was born in Brunswick, Maine and raised in Michigan. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1989 with degrees in communications and film. Stone began her career as a producer at WDIV-TV in June 1989...
  
   (1991–1993)
• Kim Walden (1993–1994)
• Dawn Mitchell
  Dawn Mitchell
  Dawn Mitchell is an Emmy Award–winning American sportscaster who has worked as a sports anchor and reporter for KMSP-TV in Minneapolis since 2004. She recently won an Emmy in 2010....
  
   (1993–1997)
• Bob Rodgers
  Bob Rodgers
  Bob Rodgers is a former sportscaster and prodcuer who worked for the New England Sports Network from 1987-2004.Rodgers joined NESN in 1987 as an associate producer. He became an on-camera personality in June 1993; co-hosting SportsDesk with Dawn Mitchell. In 1996 he became the host of the Boston...
  
   (1993–2003)
• Kristen Mastroianni (1996)
• Jayme Parker (1997–2004)
• Wendi Nix
  Wendi Nix
  -Professional:Wendi primarily handles coverage for NFL and College Football games featuring teams from the New England area. Prior to working for ESPN, Nix was a weekend sports anchor at WHDH in Boston and previously reported for Fox Sports Net, NESN and WPDE in South Carolina...
  
   (2000)
• Eric Frede
  Eric Frede
  Eric Frede is an American sportscaster who has worked for NESN since 2002. He currently serves as the play-by-play announcer for NESN College Football Saturday broadcasts he left NESN and joined CSN New England and is currently an anchor for the SportsNet Central program on that...
  
  (2002–2004)
• Mike Perlow (2002–2006)
• Tom Larson
  Tom Larson
  Tom Larson is a retired Boston sportscaster and television host.Larson came to Boston in after stops in Fulton, Missouri, Bloomington, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, and Lansing, Michigan...
  
  (2004)
• Paul Devlin (2004–2006)
• Hazel Mae
  Hazel Mae
  Hazel Mae is a sportscaster in Canada. She was the former lead anchor for the New England Sports Network's SportsDesk news program and most recently the anchor on MLB Network. She is the current anchor for Rogers Sportsnet's 6PM broadcast of Sportsnet Connected. Mae worked for Sportsnet until...
  
  (2004–2008)
• John Chandler (2009–2010)
• Cole Wright (2008–2010)
• Jade McCarthy (2010)