Friday, January 4, 2008 -- Sacramento is socked silly by high winds and rain, delaying Will Frampton’s flight home. His formal interview for the reporter gig at News10 was supposed to have lasted from the day before only until that morning. But with eight hours to burn before his rescheduled flight, Frampton went back to the newsroom to kill time, and perhaps lend a hand on severe weather coverage.

Boy, did he ever.

With the station short on reporters (several were stuck in the snow-hammered Sierra), Frampton’s would-be boss said the surreal: “if you’re comfortable with it, can you do a live shot for us at a flooded street?”

Frampton almost jumped out of his shoes. He wasn’t even employed by the station, and they were already asking him to go on TV.

Without a clue of what he was talking about, where he was, or what he was doing, the Atlanta, GA native got through the report in good shape. A few days later, he was hired at News10.

Frampton comes to Sacramento after three years at WLTX, a company sister-station in Columbia, South Carolina. While there, he shot nearly all stories by himself, writing and editing the video on his own, as well. His assignments took him across the country and the world -- he reported from Afghanistan for two weeks in December of 2007.

Prior to WLTX, Frampton received his broadcasting baptism at WTHI in Terre Haute, Indiana. He worked fifteen months there after graduating in 2003 from Erskine College, a small liberal arts school in South Carolina. During college, the English major interned at CNN in Atlanta.

He’s a rabid Braves fan, has an orange cat named Daffy, and plays the guitar. On occasion, he performs alongside his father Mac Frampton, a concert pianist who has toured venues across the world for 35 years.

So far, Will Frampton is in love with NorCal, and would love to hear from you. Drop him a line to give your thoughts on story ideas, or just to say hello.

And don’t be surprised when you see him out carrying his own camera and shooting stories by himself. As a “Multimedia Journalist,” that’s what he was hired for.