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Melissa McDermott was a reporter for CBS News. She is best known for being an anchor of the overnight CBS newscast, Up to the Minute.
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[edit] Biography
Melissa McDermott is the daughter of Country Music Disc Jockey's Hall of Fame member and longtime Wichita, Kansas media personality "Ol' Mike" Oatman.[1] She graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. degree in broadcast news from the William Allen White School of Journalism. She worked as the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. anchor at KAYS-TV (now KBSH) in Hays, Kansas.
From 1986 to 1997, she worked at KSNW-TV in Wichita, Kansas, initially going by the name of Melissa Beck. In 1994, Melissa McDermott and her husband, Todd McDermott, were named co-anchors at KSNW.
McDermott later worked as 6 p.m. anchor and won several awards as an investigative reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC.
From 2000 through March, 2006, Melissa McDermott anchored CBS's overnight newscast, Up to the Minute.
McDermott now lives in New Jersey and has two children. Melissa's ex-husband, Todd McDermott, former anchor at KSNW-TV in Wichita, WCBS-TV in New York, and WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C., currently lives in Pittsburgh and is the morning and noon anchorman for WPXI-TV
[edit] Accomplishments
Melissa McDermott has covered presidential campaigns, the Oklahoma City bombing, and other events. She has received many awards; including a national and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, the SPJ Dateline Award, three Heartland Emmy Awards, an Ohio State Award, a National AP Award, a National Iris Award, and an Emmy Award.
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- ^ "Kansas Association of Broadcasters Transmitter, Volume 42, No. 1 - January 31, 2003". http://www.kab.net/KABAdditionalInformation/KABTransmitterNewsletters/Downloads_GetFile.aspx?id=24782. Retrieved 2008-06-17. "He is survived by his wife, Pegi of Wichita; three children, all in the broadcast business: Daughter Melissa (Beck) McDermott, New York City; Andy Oatman, Tulsa; and Richard Oatman, Kansas City; and seven grandchildren."
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| Preceded by Mika Brzezinski |
CBS News: Up to the Minute anchor 2000–2006 |
Succeeded by Meg Oliver |
