Career
In November 1978, she moved to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to anchor the ten o"clock news for KDFW-television (The Columbia Broadcasting System station for the market at the time). In 1979 the six o"clock news was added to her duties. As of 2012, she is the longest-serving news anchor in the Dallas/Fort Worth television market.
Prior to KDFW, she spent three years working for WITI-television in Milwaukee.
At WITI her duties included being the host of a monthly community affairs show, news reporter and news anchor. Tinsley has appeared as a news anchor or reporter in several Dallas-based television productions, including The Good Guys and Prison Break.
