1. Kimberly Hunt, an Emmy Award winner, is a San Diego news reporter, chief anchor, and managing editor, for KGTV.
14 Facts About Kimberly Hunt
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Kimberly Hunt has reported live from the Academy Awards, Super Bowl games, political conventions, and other events.
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Kimberly Hunt was born in Ventura, California, and raised in Napa.
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Kimberly Hunt began her on-air television career at CBS affiliate KMST in Monterey.
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Kimberly Hunt relocated to San Diego in 1987 as an anchor for the ABC affiliate KGTV.
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For fifteen years, Kimberly Hunt co-anchored the evening newscasts with Carol LeBeau, the longest running female anchor team in the US Kimberly Hunt joined the KUSI News team in October 2002.
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Kimberly Hunt was a host of the weekend show San Diego People.
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Kimberly Hunt is married to former San Diego Chargers linebacker Billy Ray Smith.
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Kimberly Hunt has been given four regional Emmy Awards for Best Investigative News Story, Best Feature News Story, Best Journalistic Enterprise and Best Evening Newscast.
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In 2011, Hunt won an Edward R Murrow Award for her story, Tracking the Mexican Mafia - Inside Donovan State Prison.
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Kimberly Hunt received a Golden Mic Award for a special titled Postcards From Home during the Persian Gulf War, which linked local Marines with their families via videotaped messages.
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Kimberly Hunt was presented with the Attorney General's Crime Prevention Award.
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Kimberly Hunt has emceed San Diego's annual Shop with a Cop, which pairs officers with underprivileged children, to provide them with holiday gifts.
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Kimberly Hunt's father was a Lieutenant with the California Highway Patrol, and her grandfather was a constable with the Ojai Police Department.