Micah Johnson (journalist) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Micah Johnson is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

broadcast journalist. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Entegy Group - MediaStars, headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, as of 2010 the population of the city was 217,385...

. He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, USA. The university is northeast of Pittsburgh. It is the largest university in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and is the commonwealth's fifth largest university...

and shortly thereafter was awarded the University's Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1987, Johnson became one of the youngest male anchors at CNN Headline News in Atlanta, Georgia. At the network, he anchored Headline News, CNN Radio, and was one of the primary voices of CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

, including Larry King Live

Larry King Live

Larry King Live is an American talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010. It was CNN's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly....

On-Air Career

Johnson started his on-air career as a disc jockey

Disc jockey

A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

at WLEM Radio in Emporium, Pennsylvania

Emporium, Pennsylvania

Emporium is a borough in Cameron County, Pennsylvania, west-northwest of Williamsport. Early in the twentieth century, it had large powder plants and manufactories of radio tubes, incandescent lamps, paving brick, flour, iron, lumber, sole leather, etc. In 1900, 2,463 people lived in Emporium, and...

at the age of 16. His first television job came at WSEE-TV

WSEE-TV

WSEE-TV, channel 35, is an CBS-affiliated television station located in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. WSEE-TV is owned by Lilly Broadcasting, and is operated by NBC affiliate WICU-TV through a local marketing agreement. The two stations both share studios on State Street in downtown Erie, and a...

in Erie, Pennsylvania. Johnson went to WVVA

WVVA

WVVA, virtual channel 6, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Bluefield, West Virginia, USA, owned by the Quincy Newspapers media chain. The station's studios are located in Bluefield, and its transmitter is based at East River Mountain, near the West Virginia-Virginia border.-History:The...

in Bluefield, West Virginia as primary anchor before being hired at CNN in 1986. In 1990 Johnson moved to NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

in Washington where he anchored morning drive on the NBC Radio Network.

Management career

Johnson briefly moved into politics as senior producer of radio and television in the United States Senate Republican Conference. From there he held the position of news director at KTSM-TV

KTSM-TV

KTSM-TV, also known as NewsChannel 9, is an NBC affiliated television station based in El Paso, Texas. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 9...

in El Paso, Texas, WTOV-TV

WTOV-TV

WTOV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Ohio Valley that is licensed to Steubenville & Wheeling. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter in Mingo Junction, Ohio. Owned by Cox Enterprises, the station has studios in Steubenville. Syndicated...

in Steubenville, Ohio/Wheeling, West Virginia, WBRE-TV

WBRE-TV

WBRE-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Northeastern Pennsylvania that is licensed to Wilkes-Barre. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top. It can also be seen on Comcast and Service...

in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania, WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. In 2002, Johnson joined the Meredith Corporation

Meredith Corporation

The Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...

as Vice president of News Operations - overseeing the broadcast group's 14 television stations. He also created and oversaw Meredith's Washington, DC Bureau. While at Meredith, Johnson recruited entertainment personality Robin Leach

Robin Leach

Robin Douglas Leach is an English celebrity writer famous for hosting his first show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, in the mid-1980s and into the mid-1990s, which focused on profiling well-known celebrities and their lavish homes, cars and other materialistic endeavors...

to the television group and with him produced many specialty shows from the Billboard Music Awards, Country Music Awards, Grammys and original series Penthouse F. After Meredith, Johnson briefly partnered with Leach at KVTE-LP

KVTE-LP

KVTE-LP is a low power television station in Las Vegas, Nevada owned by Mountain Ridge Holdings – a company based in Salt Lake City, Utah – with transmitter on Black Mountain in Henderson, Nevada. The station is currently silent, transmitting only an ID over color bars and tone.- History :On 15...

in an attempt to launch an all-Vegas television network. Johnson founded Entegy Group/MediaStars Worldwide which represents on-air talent, producers, writers, and hosts. In 2007, Johnson discovered shark expert Jimmy Hall and placed him on Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

's popular "Shark Week
Shark Week
The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, which first aired on July 27, 1987, is a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Shark Week is held annually, normally running in July or August. Shark Week was developed to help the average person have a greater respect for sharks....

series. In the middle of the shoot, Hall died in a tragic base jumping

BASE jumping

BASE jumping, also sometimes written as B.A.S.E jumping, is an activity that employs an initially packed parachute to jump from fixed objects...

accident on Baffin Island

Baffin Island

Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut is the largest island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world. Its area is and its population is about 11,000...

in Canada.

Awards

Johnson has won or been nominated for more than 30 Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

s. He won the New York Festival's Gold Medal Award in 1989 for his anchoring of the fall of the Berlin Wall on NBC Radio. He has also won numerous Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

Awards. In 1993 he won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding News Operation at WTOV.
Johnson is listed in Who's Who in America

Memberships

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Vice president for various Associated Press state boards.
Governor - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Rocky Mountain Region
White House Correspondents' Association
White House Correspondents' Association
The White House Correspondents' Association is an organization of journalists who cover the White House and the President of the United States. The WHCA was founded in 1914 by journalists in response to an unfounded rumor that a Congressional committee would select which journalists could attend...
Radio-Television News Directors Association
National Press Club (USA)
Freemasonry
Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...

External links

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