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R.D. Sahl
anchor, New England Cable News
R.D. Sahl is a primetime anchor at NECN. He anchors *Right Now with R.D. Sahl* and co-hosts *Business Day and the News* at 9. His 35-year career in broadcast journalism has taken him to stories around the corner and around the world. Foreign assignments include: the former Soviet Union and the new Russia, solidarity-era Poland, German unification, France, The Vatican, Japan, and Cuba. He's covered national political conventions going back seven elections. Sahl first joined NECN in 1995 as host of *NewsNight*. He joined the network fulltime in 1997. He's received several regional Emmy awards for reporting and anchoring. He is a member of the Silver Circle of NATAS, a recipient of the Yankee Quill Award, and the Boston University Kauff Award. Sahl holds a journalism degree from the University of Colorado, and a master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.