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During her tenure at KIRO, she won multiple local Emmy Awards for broadcasting; locals also still remember her for hosting the Big Money Movie in the afternoon. Because of her success in Seattle, Hill was approached to co-anchor the Channel 2 News at CBS owned-and-operated KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles in 1974. [4]
Throughout the 1970s, KIRO-TV was known in Seattle for hiring women in the roles of "assistant anchors" and "weather presenters", including Sandy Hill, Ann Martin, Mikki Flowers and Ann Busch. Throughout the decades, KIRO-TV placed a high emphasis on news programming and investigative stories.
She became the weekend news anchor, and then the weekday evening news anchor and producer. [7] After being spotted by a Seattle television executive, Hutchison was hired in January 1981 as a TV news anchor for the CBS affiliate in Seattle, KIRO-TV. [7] She worked as the evening anchor for more than 20 years, earning five Emmy Awards. [7]
She became the first woman in the Seattle market to solo anchor a newscast when she was promoted to weekend co-anchor. [citation needed] After reporting and anchoring for KIRO for several years, Martin moved to Los Angeles in April 1976 to work for KABC-TV as a reporter. She began co-anchoring the Saturday editions of Eyewitness News.
Past and present news presenters who have worked in the Seattle-Tacoma DMA. Pages in category "Television anchors from Seattle" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
From there, she worked as a traffic reporter at KOIN 6 in Portland, Oregon and KOMO 4 in Seattle. Vesnaver became the morning traffic anchor on KIRO-TV in fall of 2008. In March 2012 she helped create Social7 with Jenni Hogan, [6] a live one-hour interactive show hosted by Vesnaver.
Shannon Kay O'Donnell (born September 27, 1973) is an American meteorologist and news anchor. O'Donnell was born in Redmond, Washington and attended Redmond High School where she was valedictorian. [1] After graduation, she attended University of Washington, studying meteorology and graduating with a degree in atmospheric sciences.
Kathi Goertzen (April 30, 1958 – August 13, 2012) was a longtime co-news anchor of Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO-TV along with Dan Lewis (the 6PM edition) and also the 5PM edition with Eric Johnson. She joined KOMO in June 1980, after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and did many special newscasts thereafter, including the fall of the Berlin ...