Daren Bobb Biography
Daren Bobb is an American Broadcast Journalist, Anchor, and Reporter currently working as a News Anchor KFSM News Anchor KFSM TV-5. He began his anchoring career at KFSM, where he serves as an evening co-anchor. He also is a past President of the Community Services Clearinghouse board in Fort Smith. He is the Past President of the Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club.
Daren Bobb Age
Daren was born on July 14, 1963, in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States of America. He is 56 years old as of 2019.
Daren Bobb Education
Daren attended and graduated from the College of Broadcast Journalism at Lewis and Clark College in Godfrey.
Daren Bobb Wife | Children
Daren got married to his wife Christine since August 1985. The couple has two children, Allison and Jake. Allison and her husband Nathan Seiter live in Conway while Jake is a Chef in learning at a restaurant in Denver.
Daren Bobb Career
Bobb moved to Fort Smith in 1984 to work in the news division at radio station KTCS. He originally joined the KFSM newsgroup in 1991, working in the background as an official producer and newsroom supervisor. He stayed with the station until 2000. In 1998, he additionally started working low maintenance for Clear Channel Radio, and in 2002, he turned into the full-time, on-air have on Newstalk 1650 KWHN. In October 2006, he started his anchoring career at KFSM, where he fills in as a night co-anchor.
They are dynamic individuals from St. Boniface Catholic Church n Fort Smith. He additionally is a past President of the Community Services Clearinghouse board in Fort Smith. He is the Past President of the Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club. He likewise serves on the United Way of Fort Smith board and the Hamilton House board. In the wake of going through 35 years living in Fort Smith, Daren and Christine are anticipating beginning another part in another home in NWA.
Daren Bobb Testimonial
In Fort Smith since 1953, KFSM relocates headquarters to NWA
After 66 years, Fort Smith-based television station KFSM-TV, Channel 5, is ready to embark on a new era.
Longtime station president and general manager Van Comer confirmed to the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal that the region’s CBS affiliate is moving its headquarters and primary studio for originating newscasts to its new facility in Johnson on South 48th Street, north of Inn at the Mill. The Business Journal first reported the construction plans in February 2018.
Some employees began moving into the $10 million building in late May. A grand opening and ribbon cutting for the 26,500-square-foot facility is planned Friday (June 14) at 10 a.m., and the station will originate its first live program from the building at 10 p.m. June 29.
“If you drop a pin in the population center of our 11-county coverage area, it’s actually right here in Johnson,” Comer said. “We will keep the Fort Smith office as a bureau and cover the news there on a daily basis, and Fort Smith will always get our attention but this building [in Johnson] is our primary facility.”
Comer said it’s a “mixed bag” of company employees who are planning to relocate to Northwest Arkansas or commute. A handful of KFSM’s most recognizable on-air talents — anchor Daren Bobb and meteorologist Garrett Lewis, for example — live in the Fort Smith metro.
Comer said Lewis and anchor Erika Thomas are planning to move to Northwest Arkansas. Bobb and meteorologist Joe Pennington are planning to commute.
Sports director Bobby Swofford lives in Fayetteville, as do Comer and several other off-air executives.