Sukanya Krishnan

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Sukanya Krishnan's publicity photo for Home Delivery

Sukanya Krishnan (सुकन्या कृष्णन्) (born August 2, 1975) is an Indian-American news anchor for the 7-9 am segments of the CW 11 Morning News on WPIX in New York City, paired with John Muller. She originally joined the WPIX in August 2001, left in late 2003 to become one of the four hosts of the syndicated TV show Home Delivery, [1] and returned to the WB 11 Morning News (later CW 11 Morning News) anchor chair in 2005.

Krishnan has won numerous community service awards, as well as many others from Indian American organizations for representing South Asians in the media. In 2006, Krishnan won her first Emmy for On-Camera Achievement (News Anchor/Host) from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). She was the first Indian American woman to work in the New York market at a local network affiliate. Born in Madras, India (now Chennai), Krishnan grew up on Staten Island, attended New Dorp High School [2] and, in 1993, graduated from Dickinson College with a bachelor's degree in Spanish, and as president of the senior class.

Krishnan's prior experience in the New York news market included a stint at WCBS-TV, from June 1997 to July 2001 as a general assignment reporter. In 1995 she was an anchor, reporter and producer of the 6 pm and 11 pm news broadcasts at ABC affiliate WUTR-TV in Utica, New York. She cut her teeth in broadcasting at Long Island's WLIG-TV in 1994. During her year there, Krishnan did a variety of jobs from shooting, writing, and editing news stories behind the camera to reporting on the air in front of the camera. It was during her internship at WLIG-TV that Krishnan first began her pursuit of a career in broadcasting. Prior to joining WCBS-TV, she was a morning/noon anchor and reporter for WHP-TV, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's CBS affiliate. She covered various stories including TWA Flight 800, the "Million Man March" and the floods of 1996 which wreaked havoc on central Pennsylvania. While at WCBS-TV, Sukanya covered breaking news for CBS 2's 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The range of stories she covered included everything from the Clinton White House impeachment proceedings, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's cleanup of Times Square, the Abner Louima beating, and the race by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa to be the first to exceed Roger Maris's single-season homerun record.

In addition to her Emmy Award, Sukanya has also won the Indian American Political Awareness Committee's "Creating A Voice" Award, and a Distinguished Broadcast Journalist commendation from the Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York, for her work covering the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Her community volunteering includes being a celebrity judge for the 2005 Iron Skillet Cookoff. In March 2004, Sukanya played a reporter covering the mob on the "Two Tonys" episode of HBO's The Sopranos. In July 2006, she was honored at the FeTNA (Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America) annual convention held in New York City. Sukanya is fluent in Tamil, Spanish and English. She lives with her husband in Manhattan.