Background
She was born in Pasadena, California.
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Kathleen Sullivan
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She was hired as Cable News Network anchor by former president Reese Schonfeld in 1980. Her career has been involved in nearly every area of broadcasting. Foreign more than ten years, Sullivan was a news anchor, working at Cable News Network, American Broadcasting Company News and Columbia Broadcasting System News.
She is a blogger for The Huffington Post.
Cable News Network Starting her career in local television, she became the first female anchor hired by Cable News Network in 1980. She became the first American woman to broadcast live from the Soviet Union when she went there to interview Russian cosmonauts for the Soviet Pre-Olympic festival.
In 1980, Sullivan was picked by Ted Turner to help launch his Cable News Network. American Broadcasting Company News Moving to American Broadcasting Company News, she debuted American Broadcasting Company News This Morning with co-anchor Steve Bell in 1982, substituted for co-host Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, anchored American Broadcasting Company World News Saturday, and started the first national-network health program, The Health Show.
She broadcast live from Buckingham Palace in London to report the royal wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales.
In 1984, Sullivan became the first woman to anchor a telecast of the Olympic Games. She was an in-studio anchor for American Broadcasting Company"s coverage of the Olympics during the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo, and later that year during the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California. National Broadcasting Company News Radio She has also worked in radio, doing weekly commentaries for American Broadcasting Company News and working in Los Angeles as a talk-show host on KABC and as a drive-time anchor for the all-news station KFWB, 1999-2000.Template:Date=October 2011 Columbia Broadcasting System News Sullivan was the only American journalist invited by United States. President Ronald Reagan to a 1987 White House state dinner honoring Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and celebrating the end of the Cold War.
Later work After leaving Columbia Broadcasting System News, Sullivan was the host of two syndicated health shows in the 1990s.
In the mid-1990s, she appeared in television and magazine ads as a spokesperson for Weight Watchers. East! Sullivan received an Emmy nomination for Best Sportscaster – a first for a woman – and received two Emmy nominations for her work as anchor of East! Entertainment"s East! News Daily, which she hosted after anchoring full-time coverage of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Awards and honors Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration She has made various cameo appearances as herself in various entertainment television programs including the episode "Millions from Heaven" (1996) of the television situation-comedy series Roseanne (1988–1997), reporting on the Conner family winning the lottery.
Achievements
Politics
During the 1980s, Sullivan reported live from political conventions, summit meetings, state funerals and the Olympics Games. Sullivan also anchored the 1992 Summer Olympics, held in Barcelona, for National Broadcasting Company"s pay-per-view Olympics Triplecast.
Membership
Sullivan is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration – a branch of the United States. Department of Health and Human Services – to which she was appointed in 2003 by the United States. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.
