Terri-Rae Elmer is a radio news announcer for KFI

KFI

KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel" stations...

 AM 640, a talk radio

Talk radio

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 station in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. Elmer has worked at KFI since 1983. From 1990 to 1993 Elmer and Tracey Miller

Tracey Miller

Tracey Miller was a radio personality, editorial writer, and newspaper editor, who worked for much of her radio career on stations in the Los Angeles area...

 co-hosted KFI's TNT in the Morning, the first morning-drive show in a major market to feature two women in the lead roles.

Elmer currently handles news during KFI's afternoon "drive time" and participates with the hosts of The John and Ken

John and Ken

John Chester Kobylt and Kenneth Robertson Chiampou, known professionally as John and Ken are American talk radio hosts of a four-hour weekday radio show, The John and Ken Show, on KFI AM 640 in Southern California. The John and Ken Show airs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m....

 Show to the extent that she is a virtual sidekick on that program, often breaking from her newsreader role and expressing points of view.

Prior to joining KFI, Elmer worked at KFBK

KFBK

KFBK is a radio station in Sacramento, California broadcasting on a frequency of 1530 kHz. KFBK is a class A clear channel station, formerly designated as a class "I-B" station, sharing 1530 with WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio...

in Sacramento, where her work was recognized by the California Farm Bureau Federation, which selected her as Agricultural Reporter of the Year in 1983, and by the Associated Press for Best Agricultural News Story in 1986.

Awards

In 2006, Elmer shared the Associated Press's Bill Stout Award for Station Spot News with other members of the KFI news team for their coverage September 2005 Topanga fire.

In 2010, Elmer shared a nomination for the Associated Press's Best News Broadcast (less than 15 minutes). No winner was declared in this category.

Philanthropy

Elmer is an avid bicyclist, riding for fun and fitness and taking part in numerous races, including century (100 mile) races, as she reports on the air. Since 2008 she has participated in the Bike MS ride to raise money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Her participation is mentioned on the John and Ken Show, and listeners are exhorted, often loudly, by John Kobylt, to make donations. The KFI team, which Elmer co-chairs with the station's News Director, Chris Little, has raised close to $100,000 in this way.

Family

Elmer was born on a dairy farm in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, the eldest child of father Paul Elmer, Jr. and mother Nancy Elmer. She has two younger sisters, Jill Farnsworth and Lori Weaver. She is married to Gerry Wallace, formerly of KFI.