Education
Adams graduated from Southwest Missouri State University in 1975 with a degree in speech and theatre, and a minor in journalism.
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Career
She began her career in broadcasting as the only news employee at an Department of Administration and Management radio station near her hometown. Adams began her television career at KOAM-television in Pittsburg/Joplin, and also worked for WMDT-television in Salisbury, Maryland. Before joining WPRI, she was an anchor and then newsdirector at WPCQ-television in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She arrived in Providence on March 1989, presenting the 6 and 11 p.m. reports, and adding the 5 p.m. report to her duties in 2002.
Adams is the second longest-serving female newsreader in Providence with 21 years, after Patrice Wood of WJAR, with 35 years. Karan Adams" final broadcast on WPRI was on Thursday, 30th December 2010.
