Bud Collins – WGBH Alumni Network

Memorial Service for Bud Collins

By Jay Collier | March 17, 2016 |

Our family wants you to attend, so please mark your calendars and make your reservations to arrive by boat, train, car, airplane, or barefoot to celebrate Bud’s magical life with us.

David Silver on Bud Collins, Julia Child, Fred Barzyk, and more

By Jay Collier | March 5, 2016 |

As a 23 year old on-camera TV neophyte, watching Julia’s completely honest and wonderfully natural television presentations, actually helped me in my own slightly panicky weekly approach to hosting a television show.

Bud Collins, 86, tennis authority, broadcaster

By Jay Collier | March 4, 2016 |

Considered the first sports print journalist to establish a regular second home on TV, Mr. Collins began offering tennis commentary for Boston’s WGBH-TV from the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill not long after he became a Globe columnist in 1963.