Tom Schaad Biography
Tom Schaad is an American Emmy award-winning journalist, anchor, and reporter currently working as an anchor at WAVY-TV in Hampton, Virginia. He spent 12 years in Central Florida running between hurricanes, space shuttle launches and NASCAR’s Daytona 500. He earned three regional Emmy Awards for his series on football returning to Old Dominion University and won several AP awards and Emmy nominations.
Tom Schaad Age
Tom was born and raised in Pittsburgh, his exact information about the date of birth is not yet confirmed.
Tom Schaad Education
Schaad attended Bethel Park High School and graduated from the University of Duquesne University with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Communications and a Minored in Journalism, with heavy concentrations in History and Political Science,
Tom Schaad Wife | Wedding
Tom got married to his wife Crystal Cameron on September 24, 2011, in Norfolk, Virginia. Crystal is a former TV journalist, public relations executive, and press secretary. She is a sommelier, and wine consultant who recently started her own business.
Tom Schaad Career
Tom joined 10 on your side in 2007, and anchors the 5, 6, and 11 pm news, alongside WAVY News at 10 on Fox43. He earned three territorial Emmy Awards for his arrangement on football coming back to Old Dominion University and won a few AP grants and Emmy assignments. Cooperation is worth Tom cultivates in the newsroom.
“WAVY works like a machine when news breaks, and I esteem the job of the anchor in this circumstance. He should advise people in general in a compact however quiet, consoling way. That is the thing that an anchor does. The person in question must guide the watcher, utilizing our honor winning reporters and producers to paint a scene that goes past the pictures you see.”
Before his transition to Hampton Roads, Tom went through 12 years in Central Florida running between tropical storms, space transport dispatches and NASCAR’s Daytona 500. He likewise secured the Florida Gators’ fruitful keeps running at back to back NCAA titles in football and ball. Be that as it may, Tom’s most paramount stories came during 2004 when nature pummeled the Orlando region with four tropical storms. “That is the point at which you need to ad-lib and do everything you can to simply jump broadcasting live. It very well may be a lowering background.”
Tom was the morning anchor at WESH, the NBC affiliate in Orlando, until earlier this month. He had been with that station for 11 years.
“We were attracted by his experience level, his energy and his dedication to the job,” Hostetter said. “All those qualities will be a great complement to our No. 1 team right now.”
WAVY, an NBC affiliate, tops the local ratings for morning and 11 p.m. newscasts and is No. 2 at the 5, 5:30 and 6 p.m. slots. Schaad will join WAVY on Dec. 3 and should be on the air shortly afterward, Hostetter said. He will co-anchor the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts with Alveta Ewell, who has been with WAVY since 1989.
According to Nielsen Media Research, Orlando/Daytona Beach is the 19th largest media market in the United States. Hampton Roads is ranked 42. Before interviewing at WAVY, Schaad had never visited Virginia, he said in a phone interview Monday.
“I’ve always liked the mid-Atlantic region, the water,” he said. “Hampton Roads seemed very down-to-earth. I liked the military presence and the fact that it’s such a cradle of American history. And what a beautiful state.”
Schaad declined to give his age but worked for stations in Clarksville, W.Va., and Albany, N.Y., before moving to Florida in 1996. Schaad’s last day on the air in Orlando was Oct. 19.
“There was a change in management, and they decided they wanted to try somebody else,” he said. “I did very well with the community here and viewers here. I have great memories of WESH.”
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