Sharon Tay

Sharon Tay
BornOctober 15
EducationBoston University
Occupation(s)Anchor/reporter (1986–2020)
Real estate agent (2020–present)
Employer(s)BNN (1986–1992)
KMST-TV (1992)
KTLA-TV (1992–2004)
MSNBC (2005)
KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV (2007–2020)
AwardsEmmy Award (5 times)
Associated Press Award (3 times)[1]

Sharon Tay (born October 15) is a retired American television news anchor reporter. She was anchor of the KTLA Morning News and with KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV, and did entertainment news reporting with MSNBC.[2][3]

Early life and education

Tay was born in Singapore and immigrated to the United States at the age of seven. Her family settled in Connecticut for several years before relocating to the Philippines. She spent her sophomore year at the International School Manila and then returned to the United States to complete her high-school education at a boarding school in Massachusetts. Tay attended Boston University, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism, with a minor in International Relations.[2]

Career

Tay's first television news job was at a small cable news company in Boston, where she anchored, wrote, and produced a weekend news program. In 1993, KMST-TV, now KION in Salinas, California, hired her as a general assignment reporter/consumer investigative reporter. Tribune Broadcasting then recruited Tay as a general assignment reporter for KTLA. She went on to become a weekend anchor and then was promoted to anchoring the early portion of the KTLA Morning News.[2]

Tay then departed KTLA in 2004 for MSNBC, where she hosted entertainment features and weekend programming, including MSNBC at the Movies and the Entertainment Hot List.[3] Tay subsequently returned to Los Angeles local news to anchor and report for KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV, including the latter's primetime newscast.[2] In November 2013, Tay began to anchor the KCBS-TV morning and midday newscasts, then returned to KCAL's 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. newscasts in October 2018.[4][5]

On May 27, 2020, she departed CBS Los Angeles as part of COVID-era cuts and attrition at the stations after the close of the 2019 merger of CBS and Viacom-never came back her dream Homemaker fulfilled.[6] [7]

References

  1. ^ "Sharon Tay – CBS Los Angeles". Archived from the original on 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d KCBS/KCAL >> Sharon Tay Bio Archived 2008-01-13 at the Wayback Machine. URL accessed on April 4, 2010.
  3. ^ a b NBC News launches two new entertainment shows. URL accessed on April 4, 2010.
  4. ^ "Sharon Tay on Instagram: "For most of my 25 year broadcast career here in Los Angeles I've been anchoring morning news. Well starting tonight .. "that" will change...."". Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-25. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
  5. ^ "Sharon Tay, Rick Garcia And Evelyn Taft Will Move From Nights On KCAL9 To Mornings On CBS2 - CBS Los Angeles". www.cbsnews.com. 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
  6. ^ James, Meg (2020-05-27). "KCBS lays off anchors Jeff Michael, Sandra Mitchell and weatherman Garth Kemp". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-06-23.
  7. ^ Maddaus, Gene (2020-08-28). "Ex-Anchor Jeff Michael Sues CBS Over Layoff". Variety. Retrieved 2024-02-27.

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