Jim Donovan, an Emmy Award-winning consumer reporter whose honors run the gamut from the Better Business Bureau to the Associated Press, is the featured reporter for the 3 On Your Side consumer unit.
Donovan came to CBS 3 in January, 2004 from WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliated station in Columbus, Ohio Donovan began his career as a news department intern at WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey in 1987. For the first six years of his career he worked there in a variety of roles, including news writer and as an Emmy-nominated field producer. In 1993, he joined WNBC-TV, the NBC flagship station in New York City, as a research coordinator. It was there that he earned his first Emmy Award for an investigative report on plane crash survival.
In 1994, Donovan made the jump to network programming and joined NBC's cable business network, CNBC, as an investigative producer and consumer reporter for "Steals & Deals," a nightly consumer news program. At CNBC Donovan developed his passion for consumer advocacy and his work there earned him a National Cable Ace nomination and allowed him to contribute reports for NBC's Today Show.
In 1997, Donovan left the Big Apple to start an investigative unit at WGHP-TV, a highly rated Fox affiliated television station in High Point, North Carolina. While working in North Carolina the Better Business Bureau named him "Outstanding Consumer Reporter." In 2000 Donovan was recruited by WBNS, where he served as the station's lead consumer reporter, earning an Emmy Award and an additional five Emmy nominations for his consumer investigations and reporting. A native of Staten Island, New York, Donovan is a graduate of Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. In his free time, Donovan enjoys traveling the world. His passport includes stamps from 33 countries in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific. When he's not on vacation, Donovan resides in Center City Philadelphia where he also gives trolley tours as part of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program.
Jim Donovan (born July 17, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American radio and television personality who serves as sports director for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been the radio voice of the Cleveland Browns since 1999 and the broadcast television voice of the Cleveland Indians since 2006.
Jim Donovan is a professional drummer and percussionist, a recording artist, and a teacher and lecturer. blank">Jim Donovan: Full Biography He is best known as the drummer for the band _Rusted Root. He plays both standard drum kit and African hand drums (such as the djembe, ashiko and talking drum). He has released several solo CDs and instructional drumming CDs, and has recorded with Triloka recording artist Krishna Das on his highly acclaimed CD Live on Earth (For a Limited Time Only). Donovan's CD Revelation #9 was nominated for 2004 Electronica Album of the Year by Just Plain Folks Songwriters organization.
Donovan is an instructor at Saint Francis University in Loretto, PA and the director of their annual Summer Rhythm Renewal multi-day workshop. He is also the current director of drumming at the New York Institute of Dance and Education.
Donovan has built a series of educational drumming workshop programs that he teaches across the US at universities, festivals, schools, corporations and specialty venues, and in 2006-2007 he released his first instructional drumming DVD entitled - "Jim Donovan's Rhythmic Foundation: Interactive African Drumming for Everyone."
He has performed and taught at the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium, and participated in the SpiritDrum Festival in 2002, a tribute event to the late African master drummer Babatunde Olatunji with Muruga Booker, Sikiru Adepoju, Perry Robinson, Halim El-Dabh, Badal Roy and Jeff Rosenbaum. http://murugabooker.com/ace.html He is a featured columnist in Drum! Magazine, and was nominated for “Best Rock Pop Percussionist” in the 2004 Drum! Magazine Readers poll.
