Sharon Dahlonega Bush
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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
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
Bush became American television's first African-American female weather anchor of primetime news in 1975 at WGPR-TV, the world'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
Bush is married to Grand L. Bush.[9]
References
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- ↑ "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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