Memberships Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration advisory board member She has been nominated for Emmy Awards in news, sports and entertainment. Sullivan received an Emmy nomination for Best Sportscaster – a first for a woman – and received two Emmy nominations for her work as anchor of E!'s E! News Daily, which she hosted after anchoring full-time coverage of the 1995 O. In the mid-1990s, she appeared in television and magazine ads as a spokesperson for Weight Watchers. Sullivan was the host of two syndicated health shows in the 1990s. She has also worked in radio, doing weekly commentaries for ABC News and working in Los Angeles as a talk-show host on KABC and as a drive-time anchor for the all-news station KFWB, 1999-2000. Sullivan anchored the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, for NBC's pay-per-view Olympics Triplecast. "I broke a lot of news interviews, but that wasn't important to them." NBC News On her firing from CBS Sullivan stated, "They called me old, unattractive and said, 'No one wants to look at her anymore,' " Sullivan told a reporter. Her reporting in 1989 on Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina won her and CBS News an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Event. During her time at CBS, Sullivan was the only American journalist invited by President of the United States Ronald Reagan to a 1987 White House state dinner honoring General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and celebrating the end of the Cold War. She served as co-anchor of the program from Novemuntil February 23, 1990, after which she left CBS News. In 1987, Sullivan moved to CBS News to become co-anchor with Harry Smith of CBS This Morning. She was an in-studio anchor for ABC Olympic broadcasts during the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo, and later that year during the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California. In 1984, Sullivan became the first woman to anchor a telecast of the Olympic Games. She broadcast live from Buckingham Palace in London to report the list of royal weddings of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. During the 1980s, Sullivan reported live from party conference, summit, state funerals and the Olympic Games. Moving to ABC News, she debuted ABC World News This Morning with co-anchor Steve Bell in 1982, substituted for co-host Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, anchored ABC World News Saturday, and started the first national-network health program, The Health Show. In 1980, Sullivan was picked by Ted Turner to help launch his Cable News Network. She became the first American woman to broadcast live from the Soviet Union when she went there to interview Russian cosmonauts for the Soviet Pre-Olympic festival. Starting her career in local television, she became the first female anchor hired by CNN in 1980.
( October 2011)Īttended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California. This section needs expansion with: parentage, education, etc.
0 kommentar(er)
