Steve Edwards Biography
Steve Edwards is a former American television personality on Los Angeles, California, morning shows, including AM Los Angeles, Good Day L.A. and Two on The Town. From 2001 to 2005, he hosted GDLA’s nationally-syndicated companion show, Good Day Live, which aired on many Fox-owned and affiliated stations.
Steve Edwards Age
was born on August 23, 1948 New York, NY U.S. He is 70 years old as of 2019.
Steve Edwards Net Worth
As of 2019 Edwards has an estimated net worth of $8 million dollars.
Steve Edwards Wife
The prominent journalist, Edwards is married to Jean Edwards for decades now. The two were at the same college, and they dated each other for a long time before tying the knot.
Steve Edwards Career
Edwards started his broadcasting career after graduating from the University of Miami (earning a degree in history) and went to the University of Houston (unfinished work on a master’s degree in clinical psychology). His first broadcasting job was in the late 1960s with KMSC radio in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, Texas. Edwards later moved to KTRH, where he hosted a nighttime call-in show. While in Houston, he also worked at CBS television affiliate KHOU-TV, where he was a news anchor and hosted shows. In the mid-1970s, Edwards worked at ABC-owned WLS-TV in Chicago as host of AM Chicago and Friday Night with Steve Edwards.
Edwards moved to Los Angeles in 1978, where he worked at CBS-owned KNXT (later KCBS-TV), in which he hosted daily half hour magazine style Two On the Town with Connie Chung and later Melody Rogers and his own self-titled talk show. While at the station, Edwards served as its entertainment editor and as a weatherman. He also worked on The Baxters, an experimental sitcom produced by Norman Lear and was the lead host on the variety show On Stage America.
H appeared as a correspondent Entertainment Tonight for one season and moved to KABC-TV in 1984. At KABC-TV, Edwards hosted A.M. Los Angeles, first with Cristina Ferrare followed by Tawny Little, together with Hollywood Closeup and an afternoon show, 3:30. He also hosted talk radio programs for then -sister station KABC, with both the Steve Edwards Show and Sports Talk.
In 1993, Edwards returned to local television, when he started hosting Live in L.A., an infotainment program on KCAL-TV, before becoming an anchor and host of Fox-owned KTTV’s Good Day L.A. in 1995. Through the years he has been the host of many unsold pilots including game shows, variety shows and talk shows; for instance, he hosted a 1990 pilot of a potential syndication run of the mid-80s NBC game show Scrabble which was not picked up. On December 11, 2017, Edwards left Good Day L.A. during the height of the #MeToo movement.
Where is Steve Edwards
On December 11, 2017, KTTV announced that Edwards “is no longer employed” by the station amid sexual harassment allegations.
Steve Edwards Awards
Edwards has received the Governor’s Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.