Background
Lopez was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York City to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe RodrÃguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist.
Lopez was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York City to Puerto Rican parents Guadalupe RodrÃguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez, a computer specialist.
She has two siblings, Jennifer and Leslie. She received her primary and secondary education while growing up in the Bronx. After graduating from Preston High School in 1989, Lopez enrolled at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, where she majored in Broadcasting and Communications.
Lopez started her radio broadcasting career at WBAB and WLIR on Long Island.
She later went to work for WXXP-FM, also on Long Island, as both Assistant Program Director and Music Director. She later worked as a DJ for WKTU in the 10PM-2AM timeslot.
After working for five years in radio, she landed a position as entertainment correspondent for WPIX"s morning show. Lopez was employed by WCBS Radio until August 2013 as a news anchor.
After this one-year hiatus, Lopez returned there in the summer of 2014.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, she worked as a Video Hits One VJ for a short time with Kane and Rebecca Rankin. Some of J-Lo"s music videos were played and her then-newest video, "Feelin" So Good," made its Video Hits One premiere during this special. During this time Lopez was also the morning news entertainment reporter for the WB11 in New York City, WPIX. In 2002, she became the host of Style Network"s GLOW, a cable television show dealing with women"s beauty issues, while working as an entertainment reporter at the same time.
Lopez reported the latest entertainment news and stories on W National Broadcasting Company-television, cable entertainment television program East! News Live, and Spanish-language WNJU. In 2003, Lopez became a DJ for WNEW-FM, with her boyfriend at the time, Chris Booker, a New York disc jockey and correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.
In October 2003, she joined WCBS-television as a part-time correspondent, after their show was canceled at WNEW-FM. In August 2004, Lopez was named anchor of WCBS" weekend morning show, making this her first news-anchor job. Foreign unknown reasons, she had not been presented on-air television since early April 2006, and subsequently she left the employ of WCBS-television officially in June 2006.
On July 29, 2006, Lopez debuted as the weekend co-anchor (with Mike Gilliam) on the News Corporation-owned WWOR-television"s My 9 Weekend News at 10. They replaced the team of Cathleen Trigg, who departed the station, and Rolland Smith, who retired.
Lopez moved to WNYW-television"s Good Day New York in 2007.and anchor of Fox 5 Live at 11am.
Reid Lamberty joined her as co-anchor for the 5am hour and 11am hour on FOX 5. Lopez was replaced from WNYW-television"s Good Day New York by former Cable News Network Headline News anchor Christina Park., and after returning to WWOR and her previous role she left television news altogether after the station ended weekend newscasts.