News 12 Connecticut Sports Director Bill Gonillo Found Dead
WOODBRIDGE, CT (AP) -- Bill Gonillo, the sports director at News 12 Connecticut, has been found dead in his Woodbridge home.
The 44-year old Gonillo had been sports director at News 12 for the past 12 years.
Prior to taking his job with News 12, Gonillo had worked at WELI-AM in New Haven and was Yale football play-by-play announcer in the mid-90s.
He had also worked as sports anchor on WVIT-30 and was a pregame and postgame host for Hartford Whalers hockey and Boston Celtics basketball on WTWS-TV in New London and WTXX in Waterbury.
Gonillo was a graduate of the University of Hartford.