Asha Blake Biography
Asha Blake is a five-time Emmy Award winner for her work as a television news journalist. Her career in the United States has included anchoring ABC and NBC network newscasts, daytime and entertainment talk shows, and anchoring local newscasts at flagship news stations KNBC and KTLA. Blake co-hosted NBC’s Later Today, a Today Show spinoff, with Jodi Applegate and Florence Henderson in 1999.
How old is Asha Blake? – Age
She is 60 years old as of 20 August 2021. She was born in 1961 in Guyana, South America.
Asha Blake Education – Family
She is the fourth born child born to an education specialist and a teacher. She has five siblings. She graduated from the University of Minnesota’s journalism program with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Asha Blake Husband
Blake is married to Mark Dusbabek, a former Minnesota Vikings linebacker. The couple married in 1994. They have a daughter named Sasha Rose Dusbabek. Dusbabek is a former American football linebacker who spent three seasons with the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings.
The Houston Oilers selected Dusbabek in the fourth round of the 1987 NFL Draft. He attended Faribault High School in Faribault, Minnesota, and played college football at the University of Minnesota.
Asha Blake Salary
She earns an annual salary of $1 million.
Asha Blake Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Asha Blake Book
Overcoming insurmountable odds, Asha is putting the finishing touches on a narrative that chronicles her inspiring life journey, “from a small village in Guyana, South America…to the anchor desk at ABC News New York.” She’s recounting her stumbles, bumbles, and fumbles on her way to the top, and she’s teaching others how she turned her unpredictable moments into ultimately wonderful winning ways. Waiting for the book! It’s on its way. Future possibilities include podcasting and possibly returning to her passion for health news reporting.
Asha Blake Company
Asha has owned and operated her own media company for the past decade. She coached clients for TV interviews and booked them for appearances as the CEO of Goldenheart Media. Her clients have appeared on national talk shows, news networks, and local outlets including ABC, NBC, CNN, KTLA-TV, KCBS-TV, WDIV-TV, KARE-TV, KSTP-TV, WUSA-TV, WPIX-TV, and WGN-TV, as well as programs like Entertainment Tonight, Meredith Viera Talk Show, and the Steve Harvey Talk Show. Asha’s clients range from lawyers and doctors to bestselling authors and music stars.
Asha Blake Career
Asha, a five-time Emmy winner, has co-hosted and co-anchored shows on two different television networks. She hosted “Later Today” on NBC, which was watched by millions of people in the morning. She hosted “World News Now,” “World News This Morning,” and “Good Morning America Sunday” for ABC, as well as reporting for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.” Asha’s reporting has put her on the front lines of breaking news events and up close and personal with world leaders. Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks, President Bill Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore are just a few examples. Hank Azaria, Earth Wind and Fire, Sarah Ferguson-Duchess of York, Jude Law, Jay Leno, Prince, and Denzel Washington have all been featured guests on Asha’s show.
During a time when women were having difficulty breaking into primetime national news roles, Asha was one of the first people of Indian/South Asian descent hired to anchor a regularly scheduled major American network newscast (ABC News) and the first to achieve this distinction of anchoring, at two major networks (ABC and NBC). A. Magazine named her one of the top Asians to watch in the future.
On assignment, Asha has traveled to numerous dark and gruesome locations, covering murders, murky international disasters such as the Valdez Oil Spill, natural disasters, and shining a light on sex abuse in the Catholic church. She was the West Coast Correspondent for the nationally syndicated program “America Now” from 2013 to 2014.
In addition to her national TV network experience, Asha has worked in Los Angeles, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Little Rock, where she has received numerous accolades. Asha, who is also a medical correspondent, won her first two Emmys for a series of reports on breast cancer and organ donation.
Asha worked as a reporter and executive producer for the environmental-health project “KTLA Green” in 2008. She received an Emmy award for team collaboration on a news program for her leadership with this informational franchise. In addition, Asha won two Emmys for producing, writing, and hosting a series of interview specials in Denver.