Mansfield Native To Start Hosting Radio Show Monday

By Jeff Fish 

Jen Royale, a Mansfield native will begin co-hosting a new radio show called "Sports Town with Jon Mterparel and Jen Royle," when Boston Herald Radio launches, according to the Herald. 

Royle, a 1992 graduate of Mansfield High School, has covered the Yankees, the Baltimore Orioles, the Ravens, and the Mets.

In an interview with Patch, Royle said first got into sports reporting in 2003 when a friend from ESPN offered her a chance to interview with John Filippelli, president of the YES (Yankees Entertainment and Sports) Network.

She stayed in New York, covering the Yankees, Mets, and basically every team in baseball until she moved to Baltimore in 2009 to cover the Orioles and Ravens, where she had to learn everything about football. Her last day in working for the Ravens was in 2011, when they lost to the Patriots in the A.F.C. Championship. 

That's when she decided it was time to move home and did so without a job, but immediately started freelancing and soon got a Saturday Radio Show at WEEI. She made the decision because she wanted to be closer to her mother, Dianne, a longtime Mansfield resident who has worked on the School Board and Board of selectmen, and her baby nephew Frankie, named after father, who died in 2006.  

Dianne moved to the North End and live "about 50 feet away from me," said Royle. "I got what I wanted. I have my mother around the corner, little Frankie sleeps over two nights a week, and I have my dream job working in Boston."

Now, she will be working in the new radio studio at the Herald, where they will have access to all the sports reporters and people alerting them of breaking news when it happens. 

"And it's uncensored, which is good for me because sometimes I'm a little feisty," joked Royle, adding "the fact the Boston Herald wants us to be ourselves and have personality it amazing."

The show will air weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. at bostonherald.com, on the Herald's news and sports apps, and will be carried by the TuneIn Radio app.