1. Ron Kershaw was an American television news reporter.
10 Facts About Ron Kershaw
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Ron Kershaw grew up in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and later moved to Arizona where he attended Glendale Community College.
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In 1974, Ron Kershaw was hired by WBAL-TV in Baltimore to shore up its sagging news ratings.
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Ron Kershaw introduced the Action News format, hired new talent, such as Mike Hambrick And Ron Smith and moved the station from last to first in less than a year.
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In 1979, Ron Kershaw moved on to WNBC-TV in New York, where he collaborated with Peter Sang in bringing the "control room" set into TV news, taking the station from last in the ratings to a market leader in two years.
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Ron Kershaw was mentor to Bucky Gunts, who worked for Ron Kershaw in Baltimore and Chicago.
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In 1982, Ron Kershaw NBC promoted Ron Kershaw to be the program producer of NBC Sports.
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Ron Kershaw helped Savitch develop her reporting skills during their stormy ten-year relationship.
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In 1987, Ron Kershaw met Giselle Fernandez, whom he had hired as a reporter at WBBM-TV.
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Young Ron Kershaw's awards include an Emmy Award three Emmy nominations, a Grantham Prize and the duPont-Columbia silver baton.