Fame
As a TV reporter, there's a pretty good chance you'll wind up on TV. In fact, we'll go ahead and estimate that chance at 100%. That's right—grab a microphone and comb your hair, because your angelic face is about to be broadcast directly into homes across...well...a distance. Just how far is the real question.
Being on TV is great and all, but where you're on TV is a bigger deal. The vast majority of aired news isn't national, meaning there's a fantastic chance you'll only be showing up on the TVs of the local populace. That could be 50,000 people, or it could be 5,000.
Is that fame? Don't kid yourself. Until people no longer need that little blurb with your name on it at the bottom of the screen, you may as well be the dude they run into at the grocery store every Sunday who bags their pork rinds.
If you get good enough and stick with it, chances are you'll score some actual fame points as a big time TV anchor or a major network's top reporter. Those few are the people who viewers tune in for, not the ones they happen to run into when changing channels. Practice, work hard, and you might just be one of them.
Just try to remember that fame and infamy are two different things.