Adele Arakawa is an American

United States

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 evening news anchor for NBC affiliate station KUSA-TV

KUSA-TV

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 of Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

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. She was the first female radio disc jockey in Knoxville, Tennessee. As of June 2007, she provides the female voice of the airport train system

Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System

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 at Denver International Airport

Denver International Airport

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Biography

Born Adele Hausser on August 31, 1958, Adele was raised in Hawaii and later east Tennessee. At age 16, she began taking college courses at Tennessee Tech University and working as a radio disc jockey in her hometown of La Follette, Tennessee

La Follette, Tennessee

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. She also attended the University of Tennessee

University of Tennessee

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. Following her entry into radio, she worked as a radio news anchor at WYSH in Clinton, Tennessee

Clinton, Tennessee

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 and as a disc jockey at WRJZ

WRJZ

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 in Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

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, where she became the first female disc jockey in Knoxville. She married her husband, Barry Tiller, in 1977.

In 1981, Adele made the transition to television news, working at WTVK-TV in weather in Knoxville where she began using her mother's maiden name, Arakawa, at the suggestion of news director Hal Wanzer. Two years later, she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina to coanchor weekday evening newscasts for WRAL-TV

WRAL-TV

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. Adele and her husband had a son in 1985. Her career next took the family to Chicago in 1989, where she again anchored weekday evening newscasts, this time for CBS affiliate WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV

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. Since December 1993, she has been a weekday evening newscast anchor for KUSA-TV

KUSA-TV

KUSA, channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD...

 in Denver.

Awards

• 1992: National Award, Asian American Issues (Television), Asian American Journalists Association
  Asian American Journalists Association
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• 1997: Best News Anchor, Heartland Chapter, National Television Academy
  National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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• 1999: Best News Anchor, Heartland Chapter, National Television Academy
• 2001: Outstanding Daily Newscast, Markets 1-50 (with team), Heartland Chapter, National Television Academy

Best Interview / Discussion Program (with team), Heartland Chapter, National Television Academy

• 2004: Best News Anchor (tie), Heartland Chapter, National Television Academy

External links

• Adele Arakawa biography on KUSA website
• A View From The Track interview with Mother Proof