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Becky Ditchfield (9NEWS)
Meteorologist Becky Ditchfield joined KUSA-TV in June 2007. The St. Louis, Missouri native made her way to Denver from Little Rock, Arkansas where she was a meteorologist for KTHV-TV. Before that, Becky worked as a meteorologist for a television station in Hastings, Nebraska.Becky likes to travel but her favorite place is the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
Becky has been interested in the weather ever since she was little. She used to be scared of thunderstorms, but when she got older that fear turned into curiosity. Since calculus and physics were Becky's best subjects in high school, she decided on Meteorology as a major in college.
Becky graduated from Valparaiso University in Indiana with a B.S. degree in Meteorology. She also holds minors in both math and broadcasting and is a member of both the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association.
Becky lives at home with her cat "Cody", and loves anything that has to do with sports. She's a huge Cardinals, Rams, and Blues fan and can usually be found near a television cheering her team on. However, now that she calls Denver home, Becky says she may have to add a few more sports teams to her list.
She also enjoys spending time with family and friends, working on home projects, and volunteering for charitable organizations.
Michelle Griego (CBS4)
Michelle Griego may need her morning coffee, but she's always excited for her first report on CBS4 This Morning, every weekday. She started working at CBS4 in June of 2005 and became the first person in Denver journalism to work as both an Online Editor for the Web and a Web Specialist for TV.Michelle is a Denver native, and she started her career in journalism at the age of 11. She co-anchored a kids' news show called "Two Bits," on KWGN-Channel 2, for two-and-a-half years. While she was an anchor, she spoke to high school students about the DARE program, covered presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and interviewed local celebrities.
Michelle attended Colorado State University and received her Bachelor's Degree in Speech Communication at Metropolitan State College, where she was News Director of the campus television station. She was the winner of two Heartland Regional Emmys while in college, and has also received awards from the Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Society of Professional Journalists for a story on the dangers of drunken driving.
During her time working on the cbs4denver.com team, the site was the winner of the Colorado Broadcasters Association 2005 Award of Excellence for best TV Web Site.
Michelle says she is happy to be in her hometown working at a station like CBS4. She enjoys being involved in the community, and has served as a peer counselor and a facilitator for the La Raza Youth Conference.
When she's not working, Michelle enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter.
Cheryl Preheim (9NEWS)
Cheryl Preheim is the Saturday and Sunday morning anchor. She also reports on 9news at 10.Cheryl began reporting for 9news in August of 1998, but her first experience in the 9newsroom was as a college intern. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado.
Her first job in journalism was at New Radio 850 KOA. There, she worked her way up through the ranks. She worked as a producer, writer, reporter and fill-in anchor for Colorado's Morning News.
Cheryl has been honored with the National Edward R. Murrow award two times. She's also won 6 Emmys as well as numerous awards from the Colorado Broadcaster's Association and the Associated Press.
Outside of work Cheryl loves to spend time with her family and friends, and working with community organizations. She is involved with the Freedom Foundation. It serves the needs of families through subsidized medical care, emergency assistance, life coaching and a wide range of children's services. Cheryl has worked closely with the Ronald McDonald House for 10 years. It provides a "home away from home" for children who are facing life threatening illnesses.
Lisa Holbrook (CW2)
Lisa Holbrook is the sports anchor on the weekend edition of the award-winning News2 at Nine.Lisa won an Emmy award for spot news reporting and has been honored by the Syracuse Press Club and Missouri Broadcasters Association for her television work.
Lisa graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She brings 10 years sports reporting experience to News2, but actually began her career as a news reporter/photographer at WITN-TV in Washington, NC, where she also anchored, produced, did the weather, and ran the assignment desk. She has also anchored the news at WOAY-TV, the ABC affiliate in Oak Hill, WV; and at WTVH-TV, the CBS affiliate in Syracuse, NY. After dodging gunfire while covering a story in Kansas City, KS, in 1996, Lisa decided to pursue a longtime dream of sports reporting.
Peggy Bunker (FOX31)
Peggy Bunker joined FOX 31 News in December 2007. Peggy's distinguished television career includes news anchoring and/or reporting roles in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. She has also hosted more than a dozen nationally-syndicated programs.
Peggy is a graduate of the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Watch Peggy Bunker on Good Day Colorado Mondays-Fridays, 5-10 a.m.
Peggy Bunker is a Northwest native who has hopped from coast to coast covering everything from the Oscars in Los Angeles to professional barbeque competitions in the deep South. Trained as a news reporter, Peggy began her career at the ABC affiliate in Seattle, but soon moved on to host entertainment shows for HGTV, WE, E! News Live, Court TV, Showtime, and OLN. In addition, Peggy hosted the unforgettable "Date Patrol" on TLC, where she helped hopeless daters navigate the dating jungle to become lucky in love.
Peggy also co-hosted the national morning show "The Daily Buzz" for the WB Network, and is a current anchor for the News 12 Networks in New York. As an entertainment correspondent for E!, Peggy has interviewed such notables as Julianne Moore, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Erin Brockovich. Her reporting credits include general news as well as an Emmy win for her field reporting in the documentary "Hot Highs," which is about teenage drug use.
A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Peggy currently lives in New York City.
Kathy Sabine (9NEWS)
Kathy Sabine was given the 2006 Regional Emmy for Best Weather Anchor. She was also voted Best Weather Forecaster for 2005 by the Colorado Broadcasters Association, for the second straight year.Kathy, who joined 9NEWS in the spring of 1993, is the lead forecaster on the 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10 p.m. newscasts Monday through Friday. Kathy provides the daily forecast for the number one talk radio show Newsradio 850 KOA and for KHOW. She writes a daily forecast for the Denver Post and the Coloradoan newspaper in Fort Collins and Greeley. She is also a National Weather Association (NWA) Broadcaster Seal of Approval Evaluation Board Member and a American Meteorological Society (AMS) member.
Kathy has worked in television since she graduated from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California back in 1988. Along with her forecasting work Kathy has spent time anchoring the news, reporting, producing and writing. She has also spent time behind the scenes in production as a chyron operator, camera operator, audio technician, floor director and tape operator.
Kathy developed a love of the outdoors and nature in her hometown of Truckee, a small mountain town in northern California near Lake Tahoe. She learned to ski when she was two and her family was very involved in the ski industry when she was a child. Kathy was also very involved with horses and rodeo.
Kathy began college studying to be a Veterinarian. She started work on her first degree in Veterinary Science at Cal Poly later switching her major to Journalism. Kathy's work on her second degree in Meteorology began years later at Metropolitan State University in Denver and also at Mississippi State University. After obtaining her first degree Kathy began her television career at the NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo then went on to work for ABC in Santa Barbara, Fox in Salinas/Monterey and ABC in San Jose California. Kathy is also a regular fill-in on the Today Show in New York for Al Roker during the week and Janice Huff on the weekend edition.
She has been a successful storm chaser winning a regional Emmy for her live coverage of two tornadoes that touched down just outside of the metro area. Kathy has also won three regional Emmy awards for best weather anchor. She was named best weathercaster by the Colorado Broadcasting Association and the Douglas County Newspaper organization. She has received an Associated Press award for her writing on a feature story she produced. Westword and 5280 magazines have named her "favorite news personality" and "best weather anchor" several times over the years. Kathy was featured in Sports Illustrated, Men's Health, Zenith woman and Colorado Dogs and Cats magazine.
Kathy is married with a son, daughter and stepson at home. When she is not with her family you can find her out riding on one of her two horses. Kathy also donates time to local charities and animal shelters. She enjoys visiting school classrooms sharing her knowledge of weather and the environment with children .. hopefully inspiring girls to pursue a career in math and science. Kathy is proud to be a foundation board member for Teen With A Dream a youth cancer organization.
Natalie Tysdal (CW2)
Natalie Tysdal anchors the Emmy-award winning News2 This Morning. Before joining the News2 team, Natalie reported and anchored in Dallas, Florida, Alabama, Idaho and Nebraska and has been recognized with numerous awards for her feature, medical and investigative reporting.Natalie started her career in Lincoln, Nebraska as a photographer and editor. She then went on to become a producer, reporter and anchor. Natalie says her passion for news started at an early age; she loves meeting people and telling their stories. In her words, "there is no greater compliment than to entrust a reporter with your story. It can be personal and sometimes difficult. I've learned about journalism from both sides of the camera as the subject of stories and the reporter. I choose my words very carefully and I treat every story with the respect it deserves." It is that sincere yet no-nonsense and honest approach that has won the hearts of many and gained the trust of viewers.
Natalie spends a great deal of time in the community, volunteering and speaking to charitable groups. When not working, Natalie takes every moment possible to spend with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys the outdoors, all types of music, crafts and teaching her girls to play piano.
Brooke Wagner (CBS4)
Brooke Wagner joined CBS4 just as the first snow of the season began to fly in 2002. According to Brooke, it's a treat to live in a city with so much to offer. She says "CBS4 has a wonderful national reputation and Denver is a great town with plenty of outdoor recreation, down-to-earth people and snow."Prior to joining CBS4, Brooke served as the co-anchor of the 10 p.m. news at KSWB-TV in San Diego where she had been since 1999. Before KSWB-TV, she was the main 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. anchor at KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas. She spent her early days as a broadcast journalist at WTAJ-TV, the CBS affiliate in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and in her first broadcast journalism position at the CBS affiliate in Sherman, Texas, she served not only as anchor and reporter, but also as the videographer, editor and producer!
Brooke has a weekly interview segment called "Breakfast with Brooke" in which she has talked with subjects such as First Lady Jeannie Ritter, Rockies' Pitcher Jeff Francis, and CU President Hank Brown. Brooke is also CBS4's Wednesday's Child reporter. Each week she has the privilege of meeting with a child from the Adoption Exchange, who is looking for a family. She is very active in the Adoption Exchange, emceeing events and rallying for donations to help children and adoptive families. She also enjoys speaking to "Girls Can", a group that helps young girls learn about jobs and finances. In addition, she is a member of P.E.O. International, a foundation which provides educational opportunities for women.
Though Brooke was born in the Philippines (her Dad was a Navy pilot), she was raised in Des Moines, Iowa and graduated with honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a degree in journalism. Her brother and grandfather are also pilots, and her mother is a former teacher.
She's an award-winning journalist who's been recognized multiple times. Brooke has received three Emmy nominations for reporting, one for best franchise report, two Emmys for best newscast, the Scribes in Excellence Award, the American Heart Association's Paul R. Ellis Media Award for health reporting, a Society of Professional Journalists Award for outstanding series reporting, was named as one of San Diego Magazine's 50 people to watch, and was chosen to emcee George W. Bush's gubernatorial inaugural ball. In 2001, Brooke also received several awards for her work in covering the shootings at Santana High School, including the prestigious Associated Press Bill Stout Memorial Award that her station's team won for Spot News Coverage.
Brooke and her husband, a sportscaster-turned-attorney, have a young daughter and son. Brooke and her family are active members of their church. They thoroughly enjoy the family activities which Denver offers, such as The Children's Museum, Zoo, and Butterfly Pavilion.
Libby Weaver (FOX31)
Anchor Libby Weaver joined FOX 31 News from Chicago, IL where she was anchor for NBC affiliate WMAQ-TV.Libby's career also includes being host, anchor and correspondent for the nationally syndicated news magazine show EXTRA, anchor of the primetime newscast for Fox owned KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, anchor/reporter for KHQ-tv (NBC) in Spokane, Wash. and weekend anchor, producer and reporter for KDRV-TV (ABC) in Medford, Ore. She also anchored overnight newscasts for the ABC network and she began her career at KGTV (ABC) in San Diego, Calif. as desk assistant and off-air reporter.
Libby graduated with honors and earned a bachelor of arts degree in speech communication with a minor in Spanish from the University of San Diego in California.
Kellie MacMullan (CW2)
Kellie MacMullan is co-anchor of News2 at Eleven and live morning reporter on the four-hour News2 This Morning weekdays from 5:00-9:00 AM. Kellie is a Colorado native who is thrilled to be working in Denver. She grew up in Arvada and earned degrees in Journalism/Mass Communication and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining News2, Kellie worked at KJCT in Grand Junction, where she was awarded best newscast from the Colorado Broadcasters Association for her work as the co-anchor of Western Colorado's only live morning newscast. She most recently worked as the morning co-anchor at KRDO in Colorado Springs where she also reported on the midday news program.In her broadcast career, Kellie has won numerous awards, including two prestigious Gracie Allen awards presented by American Women in Radio and Television, two individual regional Edward R. Murrow awards, as well as honors from the Colorado Associated Press and the Colorado Broadcasters Association.
Kellie is committed to helping find a cure for breast cancer. For the past two years, she served as honorary co-chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of the Susan G. Koman for the Cure organization and she continues to be active in efforts to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Kellie enjoys writing, hiking, skiing, and learning how to play golf. She especially enjoys the outdoors with her basset hound, Annabelle.
*All biographies from their respective employer websites.
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