Ross Becker Biography
Ross Becker is a journalist who works primarily in television, radio, and digital media. He is the founder and CEO of TvNewsmentor.com, a website dedicated to developing and mentoring talent. He also founded Top News Talent, LLC, a coaching, training, and representation firm for broadcast and digital journalists.
Ross Becker Age
He was born and raised in the United States of America.
Ross Becker Family- Parents
Ross has not yet disclosed any information about his parents or whether he has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Ross Becker Wife- Married
Becker is happily married, to his wife Linda, however, When it comes to his personal life, he is extremely private. He has not yet made public his relationship or marital status.
Ross Becker Career
Becker began his broadcasting career as a reporter at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1975, before moving to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis as a weekend anchor and field reporter in 1977. In 1980, he joined KCBS-TV (then known as KNXT) in Los Angeles as a reporter, eventually rising to become head of the Investigative Team, weekend anchor, and host of a short-lived 7 p.m. newscast. He won three Emmys for his coverage of the Cerritos plane crash and the windstorms in Southern California. He also won six Golden Mike Awards and the Associated Press Mark Twain Award for news writing. During his time at KCBS, he was President of the Radio/TV News Association of Southern California for two years.
Becker left KCOP-TV in 1990 to anchor the station’s only newscast, replacing Warren Olney. At KCOP, he won an Emmy for his coverage of the Reginald Oliver Denny beating, which sparked the Los Angeles riots. Becker left KCOP in 1995, citing “sold-out, disgusting, tabloid” journalism in Los Angeles. Becker was hired as a freelance journalist in January 1996 and conducted a 90-minute interview with O. J. Simpson. It was Simpson’s first interview since his acquittal on murder charges. The interview was controversial at the time because the videotape was sold instead of being broadcast on “free” television or cable. Becker agreed not to ask about Simpson’s children, finances, or the pending civil lawsuit during the interview.
Becker and his wife, Linda, purchased three radio stations in Kentucky in 1995. WIEL-AM Elizabethtown, WKMO in Hodgenville, Kentucky, and WRZI-FM in Vine Grove, Kentucky were among them. In 2000, these were sold to Commonwealth Broadcasting, and Becker returned to the broadcast news business as an anchor for MSNBC in 2001. The following year, he returned to local news as the evening anchor for KTNV-TV in Las Vegas. In December 2004, Becker left KTNV to pursue other opportunities. In 2005, he returned to Los Angeles as a freelance reporter for KNBC before being hired full-time. He left KNBC at the end of 2006 to work as an evening anchor for KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah.
On December 31, 2009, he left the station to join KUSI-TV in San Diego. He was a featured reporter and co-anchor of the 11 p.m. newscast at KUSI. Becker left KUSI at the end of 2016 to become the news director at KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California. Becker left KMIR in January of this year. He joined KAAL in Rochester, Minnesota, as the lead anchor in January 2019, and announced his departure in August 2021. Becker is a past president of the Board of Directors of APTRA, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, which serves as a liaison between the Associated Press and 12 western states.
Ross Becker Net Worth
Ross has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.