Ted Rowlands Biography
Ted Rowlands is an American Award-winning newscaster working at KTVU Channel 2 in the Bay Area. He worked as a general assignment correspondent for CNN.
How old is Ted Rowlands? – Age
He is 54 years old as of 27 September 2020. He was born Ted Hugh Rowlands in 1966 in the United States of America.
Ted Rowlands Wife
He is married to Erica Sanson. The couple has two children.
Ted Rowlands Salary – Net Worth
He is said to be earning an annual salary of $60,130.His net worth is estimated net worth of $2.5 Million.
Ted Rowlands Career
He was based in Chicago and has covered a number of high-profile stories for the network, including the ongoing violence in Chicago, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s trial and conviction, Wisconsin’s gubernatorial recall election, and the deadly shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and a high school in Ohio.
Rowlands has been a part of CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath since March 2004, as well as CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of the historic presidential election in 2008. He was also a guest host on Larry King Live on occasion. Rowlands has exclusively reported on several stories for CNN, including O.J. Simpson’s arrest in Las Vegas in 2007 and Scott Roeder’s 2009 jailhouse interview in Wichita, Kans., days after Roeder was arrested for the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He was the lead CNN reporter on the Scott Peterson, Phil Spector, and Michael Jackson trials. Jackson’s death, the latest on the criminal death investigation, and a rare, live tour of Jackson’s Neverland Ranch are all part of his extensive reporting on the star. He also covered the Virginia Tech shooting massacre and the deaths of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford for the network.
In addition, he has reported from Mexico during the early stages of the H1N1 pandemic and from Ft. Hood, Texas, in the aftermath of the 13-person shooting on the post. Rowlands was a reporter for KTVU-TV in San Francisco before joining CNN, where he was the station’s lead reporter on the Laci Peterson case and one of the few journalists to get an interview with Scott Peterson. Rowlands worked as a reporter for KNTV in San Francisco before joining KTVU-TV, where he exclusively broadcast Cary Stayner’s confession in 1999, when he was accused of murdering two female tourists and a park employee in Yosemite National Park.
Rowlands also covered the dog mauling case and trial in San Francisco in 2000. Rowlands began his broadcast career as an anchor and reporter for KBJR-TV in Duluth, Minnesota, where he worked as a bureau chief and reporter. Rowlands graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts.