email:
tvdiner@necn.com
Billy Costa has been the host of NECN’s TV Diner, a
restaurant review program, since 1992. A native of
Cambridge, MA, Costa attended Merrimack College on a
hockey scholarship before transferring to Emerson
College and graduating with a degree in English. While
in college, he fell in love with DJ’ing at Emerson’s
WERS, and worked briefly at WBOS-FM after graduating. In
1980, Billy joined KISS 108 as an entertainment and
lifestyle reporter. He has been co-hosting the Matty
in the Morning show with Matt Siegel for the past 15
years, and is also the well-received host of the KISS
Top 30 Countdown of Today's Hit Music. Costa’s
television career has included entertainment reporting
for WBZ-4 where he won a Children’s Television Award for
the youth oriented talk show Rap Around, and received an
Emmy nomination for his work on Evening Magazine.
Costa lives with his wife and three children in
Lynnfield, MA.
