Shelly Jamison Explained

Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison (born 10 July 1962[1] is a former television news reporter, and current public official, from Phoenix, who appeared as a Playboy magazine cover model[2] and the sideline reporter on the 1989–1990 souped-up roller derby TV series RollerGames.

Jamison majored in broadcast journalism at Arizona State University. She worked as a news producer, reporter and occasional anchor on KTSP-TV (the current-day KSAZ-TV) in Phoenix, until she appeared clothed on the cover and nude inside the July 1989 issue of Playboy magazine.[3] In the accompanying article, she predicted that she would most likely be fired from KTSP. She rationalized that her pay for the appearance (over US$100,000) was more than five years' pay at the station: she did leave her job at the station after the magazine appearance.[4]

She was hired as a sideline reporter for RollerGames, a syndicated roller derby series aired during the 1989–90 television season,[5] after producers David Sams and Michael Miller saw her picture in a USA Today story about the controversial Playboy appearance.[6]

She joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1998. She is a member of FEMA's Arizona Task Force One (AZ-TF1) and has deployed to numerous national disaster situations, becoming deputy fire chief.[7] Her broadcasting background has led her to become a department spokesperson.[8] [9] [10]

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Notes and References

  1. U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. Web site: Playboy | July 1989 at Wolfgang's.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20071001031751/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55922847.html?dids=55922847:55922847&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance
  4. "`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", Chicago Sun-Times, May 22, 1989.
  5. Web site: St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, 1989 · p. 75. 8 October 1989 .
  6. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-08-30/news/on-the-rink-of-a-vervous-breakdown/full "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown"
  7. Web site: Fire Executive Staff . www.phoenix.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210519091938/https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison . 2021-05-19.
  8. Web site: Phoenix Fire Department chief says she has breast cancer. 11 December 2019 .
  9. Web site: Doing What Matters – Deputy Fire Chief Shelly Jamison. 6 May 2015.
  10. live. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Z5aDuKjWlBw. 2021-12-11. Health Futures – Taking Stock In You with Host Bob Roth & Guest Shelly Jamison & Steve Wagner . YouTube.