A classmate and I were able to visit Chip Carter from Fox 13 Tampa in fall 2011.

1. FOX 13
WITH CHIP CARTER
TEAM GOOGLE- MEGAN FOLEY AND ALI SETTEL

3. • Visited Chip Carter at Fox 13 on Monday, April 4th
• Chip gave us a tour of the entire studio
- We saw the production room, the weather room/Omni Center, the
sports room, the green room, the news room, the morning broadcast
area and we were even able to sit in on a live evening news broadcast!
• Introduced us to his fellow employees/good friends
-Paul Dellegatto, Denise White and Mark Wilson to name a few 

5. ALL ABOUT….CHIP CARTER
SPORTS DIRECTOR FOR FOX 13 NEWS
* Chip originally wanted to be a lawyer; he studied English with Pre-Law minor
at the University of New Hampshire. His dad was a hockey coach and Chip
got involved announcing the games for fun. He fell in love with it and
decided to switch his major to Broadcasting.
*His good friend was news director in another market up north and got
promoted to VP of news in Tampa and brought Chip with him.
*Started in 1988 at what was then CBS and is now FOX
*Sports Anchor for all 3 shows, sideline reporter for FOX Sports, NASCAR for
FOX News with Shepard Smith and mainly covers Rays, Lightning and USF.
- Chip has a staff of 7 and is an Emmy award winning sports director

7. WHAT DOES CHIP CARTER HAVE TO SAY?
“ The hours can get kind of long sometimes…they can be anywhere from 2pm
until Midnight or 9am until Midnight. It just depends on the season and
what is going on during that time…but it’s all worth it in the end.”
“ I love covering USF stuff, especially USF football! We film a sit-down every
Tuesday with Skip Holtz called ‘Skip and Chip’ and it’s kind of a little
personality show….that guys a riot!”
“ What’s really fun is you get to meet really cool people! Yeah, I get to go to
almost every major sporting event in the country but I also get to do a lot
of different things with the people that are the best in the business. I have
been hang-gliding and scuba diving with the best of the best…so that is
definitely one of the coolest parts of my job.”

8. BEHIND THE SCENES THE PRODUCTION ROOM
IN

9. PLAY TIME IN THE STUDIO

10. Denise White & Mark Wilson
COMMERCIAL BREAK DURING A LIVE TAPING 

11. WE ALSO GOT TO MEET…
PAUL
DELLEGATTO
CHIEF METEOROLOGIST
FOR FOX 13 AND CHIP’S
BEST FRIEND.

12. HOME IS WHERE THE STUDIO IS!
WE DEFINITELY FELT AT HOME DURING OUR TIME SPENT AT
FOX 13. THE ATMOSPHERE WAS IDEAL; WE WERE ABLE TO
MEET SOME OF THE NICEST AND MOST GENUINE
PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE ALL VERY GOOD AT WHAT
THEY DO (and what we hope to do one day). WE HAD
SUCH AN INCREDIBLE TIME…WE COULD HAVE STAYED
THERE ALL DAY IF SOMEONE LET US! THIS TRIP
DEFINITELY REASSURED OUR CHOSEN CAREER PATH. WE
BOTH LOOK FORWARD TO PURSUING A CAREER IN
BROADCAST NEWS.

13. … NATURALS! 