John Hambrick

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John Hambrick (born February 12, 1940, Mabank, Texas) is a seven time Emmy Award - winning newscaster, reporter, actor, and voice over announcer from Beaumont, Texas. Hambrick has worked in markets such as WNBC-TV New York City, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, WTVJ-TV in Miami and KRON-TV San Francisco.

1 Brief career sketch
2 Supporting actor roles
3 Awards and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Brief career sketch

On Christmas Day 1967, with much local fanfare, young Hambrick made his Cleveland, Ohio, debut on ABC-TV affiliate WEWS-TV's Channel 5 Eyewitness News as co-presenter of the 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts. A full promotional advertisement was printed in the both Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press newspapers.

In 1970, the late Dorothy Fuldheim joined Hambrick as the 6 and 11 p.m. anchors, where they helped the station's news broadcast become the top news program in the local Nielsen Ratings until his departure in 1975.

[edit] Supporting actor roles

Hambrick is also registered with the Screen Actors Guild SAG, and has had supporting and/or bit parts in the movie Telefon, the old 1950s TV series Playhouse 90 and, most recently, the hit NBC-TV series Friday Night Lights. In 1960, Hambrick appeared in one episode of the 1950s CBS-TV series General Electric Theater.

Hambrick is the brother of retired newscaster Judd Hambrick, who also once worked in Cleveland (for WJW-TV and WKYC-TV respectively}, and business news journalist/presenter Mike Hambrick.