Famous Mormons In the Media Page Three

Famous Mormon Radio & Television Announcers, Broadcast News Analysts, Reporters and Correspondents

Amy Freeze
meteorologist
Yes, that really is her name!
Amy Freeze is the weekend meteorologist at WABC-TV in New York. She was the chief meteorologist for Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD in Chicago from 2007–2011.

Freeze has certificate number 111 from the American Meteorological Society as a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist—she was one of the first 20 women in the world to receive this certification. In addition, Freeze has her National Weather Association and American Meteorological Society Seals of Approval. She is a three-time National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award winner.

Before joining WFLD, she worked for NBC's WCAU in Philadelphia for four years. During that time she went to the plaza in New York City to fill in for the "Weekend Today Show". She also worked in Denver at both KWGN and KMGH. She began her broadcasting career in Portland, OR at KPTV. Freeze had a cameo appearance in the "Scrubs" episode My Life in Four Cameras. Freeze uses viewers' digital photos capturing the weather, including them in her forecasts as "Freeze Frame." Amy created "The Freeze Factor"- a special segment where she rates the next days weather on a scale of 1 to 10.

During her time in Chicago, Freeze used to visit about 10,000 area students each year giving weather presentations on tornados and severe weather. She hosted the first ever Weather Education Days for MLB's Chicago White Sox, the Chicago Cubs, and for The Chicago Wolves Hockey team.

Freeze was the first ever female sideline reporter for Major League Soccer working for the Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, and the Chicago Fire. She currently does sideline reporting for the Chicago Fire.

Freeze has a website that teaches the reader how to record weather information of his or her own (see External links). Her Master Thesis (from the University of Pennsylvania) is an exclusive concept called the Stormwater Action Alert Program which she created during her research in Philadelphia. She has presented on the topic to many environmental groups.

Freeze is a Latter-day Saint. She met her husband, Dr. Gary Arbuckle, when she was a cheerleader at Brigham Young University and he was Cosmo the Cougar. She received a degree in communications from BYU and a degree in meteorology from Mississippi State University.

Freeze and her husband Gary won $100,000 in a weight-loss contest in 1999. She also has a summer home on the moon.

Freeze was mentioned several times during the ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast, December 22, 2008. It was the coldest kickoff ever at Soldier Field for the Chicago Bears.

Amy Elizabeth Freeze is the name she was born with, she is the oldest of 5 girls, and she was raised by Bill and Linda Freeze in Jeffersonville, Indiana.   Wikipedia

www.amyfreeze.com

www.myfoxchicago.com

Photo: KPRC

 

Pat Gray

radio announcer

 

Pat co-hosts The Glenn Beck show broadcast from New York.

Pat Gray was a morning show host on 950 AM  KPRC in Houston Texas. Gray is the best friend and former on-air partner of nationally syndicated talk show host Glenn Beck.  (Pat baptized Glenn) 

Starting in radio his junior year in high school, Pat's route to talk radio began in his home state of Montana. Then, it was on to Salt Lake City, then Baltimore, where he teamed with Glenn Beck to do wacky FM morning shows, a few more places on the East Coast, back to Salt Lake, Houston and finally ending up in New York. 
 

Pat Gray from Wikepdia

 

 

Todd Harris

Todd Harris is a play-by-play announcer for ESPNU college football coverage and World Extreme Cagefighting airing on Versus.

Prior to those duties, he was the lead play-by-play announcer for ABC and ESPN's coverage of the Indy Racing League's IndyCar Series. He has also called motocross, supercross, and X Games coverage on ESPN, and has been the lead announcer for the World's Strongest Man competition.

Harris' duties at other networks have included covering the NBA playoffs for TNT, and being a commentator for  the   Winter Olympics. Harris is a 1990 graduate of Brigham Young University, graduating with honors with a major of Communications. He is a Southern California native but grew up in Portland, Oregon were he was a standout high school athlete. He began his broadcasting career as a weekend anchor/reporter for WBKO-TV in Bowling Green, KY.

 


 

 

Jesika Henderson
pageant winner
Americas' Junior Miss 2000     She is niece to Kurt Bestor. She is a junior honor's student at BYU majoring in English and dance. She performs with the BYU Dancers' Company and can be seen as host on Health South's Saturday morning television show Go for It.  

 
Chuck Henry
reporter
     News on Channel 4 in Los Angeles, California since January 1994. Henry has won eight Los Angeles area Emmy Awards for his work in front of the camera as anchor, reporter and host, and behind the camera as director and producer.  

Photo: univision.com

Isabel Peralta Hill    Isabel is a reporter for Univision 14 KDTV San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, CA.  Currently she is also working on her Master's of Fine Arts degree in Motion Picture and Television Production with an emphasis in Acting. 

      Isabel is from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.  She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah in Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism. At the age of 13 she started acting in theater in Santo Domingo and worked in TV.   Since coming to the United States she has worked as a D.J. and a hostess for radio stations, community and entertainment TV shows and has acted in several independent film and video productions.

     Isabel was an Anchor/Reporter and produced a news bulletin for TV Azteca/Azteca America in Utah and corresponded for their national news broadcast.  She was also a news reporter for Univision in both Salt Lake City, UT and Fresno, CA.

 

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Derek and Julianne Hough These siblings are both pro dancers on ABC's hit show "Dancing with the Stars." Julianne debuted and won with her partner, speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno. orn into a Mormon family with three other siblings, Julianne and Derek had dancing in their DNA. Both sets of grandparents were dancers and their parents actually met on a ballroom dance team in college.

 

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Don Hudson

News Anchor

Don Hudson a two time Emmy award winner is a News Anchor for WTVQ-TV 36  the ABC affiliate in Lexington Kentucky  serving the East Central Kentucky region. You can see Don anchoring nightly on Action News 36 @ Five, Action News 36 @ Six, and Action News 36 Eleven @ Eleven.He is also the host of the "Viewer's Voice", a segment where viewers tell us what they think about the stories we do - and how we report them.  

 
Ken Jennings
Contestant: Jeopardy
Ken's Total Winnings $2,520,700  Biggest winner in game show history

     To mark the start of its 20th season in September 2003, Jeopardy lifted its five-game limit for winners and allowed them to keep going until they lose. Jennings is a Seattle native who grew up in South Korea. He was a member of the BYU College Bowl team in the 1990s. He served a mission in Spain. He currently he works as a software engineer in Salt Lake City. He was described in the press as a teetotaler. The press have also reported that 10% of his earnings will be donated to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Fame, $1M fortune for 'Jeopardy!' champion by Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 7/14/2004

 

  The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment was started by 27 year-old Arizona resident Luke Johnson. On September 18, 2006, Luke posted a self-made video on YouTube inviting the world to call him on his cell phone. The stated purpose of the experiment is to see how many people will call someone they have never met.

Since the inception of the experiment, Luke has received calls from around the planet. As of February 16, 2007 he has 100,000 telephone calls. Owing to the popularity of his experiment, Luke has been featured on CNN, NPR, The Rachael Ray Show, the Art Fennell show, several local news channels, as well as a number of national and international newspapers, magazines, and  radio stations. from wikipedia.org

2011  Update  The Luke Johnson Phone Experiment is still going !

Call him at 602-435-3694.  Tell him you heard about him on Famous Mormons !

www.jennakimjones.com

Jenna Kim Jones

Writer, Comedian

Jenna Kim Jones is a Writer and Script Assistant and has worked as interim management for The Daily Show (www.thedailyshow.com)

 She is also a very funny standup comedian. 

From her website ..... What’s with the whole “I’m Mormon” thing?

No, it isn’t just a way to ward off creepy guys in a bar with talk of eternal marriage AFTER they buy me a Diet  Coke (on the rocks). It’s true, I’m a Mormon.  A real living breathing active Mormon. (And the rumors that I am studying the secret to make it rain Skittles are…100% true.)

www.jennakimjones.com

www.facebook.com/jennakimjones

Tracy Kennick

 

Tracy Kennick is a news anchor in Southeast Texas on KBMT Channel 12 News She went on to graduate from Brigham Young University as an honors student with a major in broadcast communication and a minor in political science. She then worked for KSL Television in Salt Lake City, Utah before moving to Texas.www.kbmt12.com
Sarah Lane

Reporter

LEX 18 News General Assignment Reporter Lexington, Ky

Sarah Lane's Kentucky roots run deep, as a fourth generation farmer with family ties throughout the Bluegrass State. Kentucky's nutrient-rich soil proved an important part of her childhood -and you'll find she isn't the least bit afraid of rolling her sleeves up and getting her hands dirty. The farm still proves an essential part of her character today - enriched through family values, hard work and healthy helpings of faith.

Biography on LEX 18

 

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