Shelly Jamison

Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison (born (1962-07-10) 10 July 1962)[1] is a former television news reporter 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.[7] Her broadcasting background has led her to become a department spokesperson.[8][9][10]

References
  1. U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. https://www.wolfgangs.com/vintage-magazines/playboy/vintage-magazine/OMS24072.html
  3. USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance, by Matt Roush, Life section, page 03.D, May 22, 1989, USA Today
  4. "`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", Chicago Sun-Times, May 22, 1989. Archived at HighBeam Research. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
  5. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/139964032/
  6. "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown", By Dewey Webb, Phoenix New Times, August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
  7. https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison
  8. https://www.12news.com/article/news/health/phoenix-fire-department-chief-says-she-has-breast-cancer/75-4aacdbb2-7394-4d1a-9899-82a45a77b670
  9. https://archive.org/details/Doing_What_Matters_-_Deputy_Fire_Chief_Shelly_Jamison
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aDuKjWlBw
  • "Junior Samples", Restaurant review by Shelly Jamison, Phoenix New Times, February 21, 1990. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
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