Elita Loresca

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Elita Loresca (born September 26, 1977), a Filipino newscaster, has worked for KGET-TV, the NBC affiliate in Bakersfield, CA and WSVN 7 in Miami, FL. Loresca currently works at KNBC in Los Angeles.

[edit] Career

Loresca began her career as a news associate at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she was responsible for the assembly of scripts and teleprompter operation during the newscasts. She also assisted the assignment desk.

From 2002 to 2004, Loresca was the morning and noon weather anchor on KGPE-TV in Fresno, California. Before that, she was the Noon weather anchor and assignment editor for KGET-TV in Bakersfield, California from January 2001 to August 2002.

Loresca has covered two of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent history. Starting on her first day at WSVN in 2004, Loresca began forecasting the 2004 hurricane season with Hurricane Frances. In 2005, Loresca contributed reports for her station from the National Hurricane Center during Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita and Hurricane Wilma.

Loresca is a graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program at Cal State Fullerton and earned the Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology at Mississippi State University. Born in the Philippines, Loresca moved to Southern California when she was 10 months old and grew up in both downtown Los Angeles and Chino.

Loresca is actively involved as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and The National Alliance to Nurture the Aged and the Youth (NANAY), a non-profit Filipino organization. [1]

Elita Loresca won the title "America's Sexiest Newscaster" in an online vote by readers of FHM magazine. She was featured in the October 2006 issue. [2]