Sharon Dahlonega Bush
Sharon Raiford Bush | |
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| File:Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush.jpg Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush at Yamashiro Hollywood on December 7, 2013 | |
| Born | Sharon Daisy Raiford |
| Other names | Sharon Crews |
| Spouse | |
Sharon Dahlonega Bush (born Sharon Daisy Raiford) is an American television newscaster and print journalist.[1] She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles, California. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards.
Education
[edit | edit source]Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State University. She later studied at the University of Detroit, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at Atlanta.[2][3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Bush became American television's first African-American female weather anchor of primetime news in 1975 at WGPR-TV, the US's first black-owned-and-operated television station.[4][5]
Sharon Crews (as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC network affiliates[6] in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for Black Entertainment Television.[7]
Bush worked as a morning news anchor at WGHP-TV, the then-ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina.[4] She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards.[8]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Bush is married to Grand L. Bush.[9]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Additions Made To Newswatch 3 Staff" The Commercial Appeal, February 3, 1981.
- ^ "Anchoring the News", Memphis Tri-State Defender, September 7, 1984.
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- ^ a b TV Week, Greensboro Daily News, December 12, 1976.
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- ^ "Greensboro Native Promoted to National Correspondent", Carolina Peacemaker, December 20, 1990.
- ^ "The Tunes That Shaped American Music — They Call It The Blues", Cash Box, Volume XLIX, February 1986.
- ^ Grand L. Bush profile, imdb.com; retrieved March 10, 2007.
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- Living people
- African-American television personalities
- American television news anchors
- American television weather presenters
- Georgia State University alumni
- University of Detroit Mercy alumni
- Writers from Greensboro, North Carolina
- African-American women journalists
- African-American journalists
- American women television journalists
- 21st-century African-American people
- 21st-century African-American women