Penny Daniels
| Penny Daniels | |
|---|---|
| Born | Elizabeth Penny Comm 1954 |
| Spouse | Rick Leventhal (divorced) |
Penny Daniels (born December 1954) is a communications consultant and trainer and a former American television news anchor who once hosted the TV show A Current Affair.
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[edit] Early life and education
Born Elizabeth Penny Comm, Daniels is a native of Highland Park, Illinois. She earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1977 and a Master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University in 1980.
[edit] Professional career
Daniels began her career in 1980 at the CBS affiliate in Green Bay Wisconsin, then moved to Buffalo, N.Y. to report and anchor newscasts at WKBW-TV, the ABC affiliate. From there she moved to Washington, D.C., where she was a reporter and fill-in anchor at WJLA-TV, the ABC station from 1985-1988. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Daniels was an anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami, where she was the first woman to solo anchor a modern, nationally-syndicated tabloid-style magazine program. Inside Report only ran from 1989-1990, but was hugely popular in Miami, beating the famous "A Current Affair" (then-anchored by Maury Povich) in local ratings. "[1] Shortly before leaving WSVN, Daniels was caught on the air telling a producer "You suck!" "I'm sorry I said it," Daniels later said, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 22, 1993. "I don't usually lose my temper when I'm doing a newscast."[2]
In April 1993, Daniels joined WBBM-TV in Chicago as an anchor and reporter. In mid-1993, Daniels and Joan Lovett began anchoring the station's new noon newscast.
In September 1994, Daniels left WBBM to join A Current Affair as a New York-based weekday host. She hosted the show until September 1995, when she shifted to being a correspondent for the program's weekday editions and the anchor of the show's weekend edition. The show went off the air in 1996.[3]
In 1998, Daniels joined KHQ-TV in Spokane, Washington. In October 2000, Daniels resigned from KHQ and left the TV news business to work as a communications consultant and trainer in Washington, D.C. .[4]
In 2003, Daniels and two partners created the communications consulting and coaching firm, 3D Communications, with offices located across the country.[5]
[edit] Personal
Daniels currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her two children. Her former husband, Rick Leventhal, was an on-air reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami and WFLD-TV in Chicago while Daniels was working in those cities. Leventhal now works for Fox News Channel. Her brother is Benjamin Comm of Ashburn, Va.
[edit] References
- ^ Feder, Robert (March 22, 1993). "Channel 2 Imports Miami Anchor Duo". Chicago Sun-Times: p. 27.
- ^ Feder, Robert (March 22, 1993). "Channel 2 Imports Miami Anchor Duo". Chicago Sun-Times: p. 27.
- ^ http://google.com/search? =cache:EU4bDJnwDzcJ:https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1995/09/15/1995-09-15__central_park_west__premiere.html+%22Penny+Daniels%22+%22Current+Affair%22+1995&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=16&gl=us
- ^ http://google.com/search?q=cache:NIHbRUkyPKcJ:www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4809535-1.html+%22Penny+Daniels%22+KHQ&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us
- ^ http://www.3dcommunications.us/who.htm
