Education
She also attended the University of Tennessee.
She also attended the University of Tennessee.
She was the first female radio disc jockey in Knoxville, Tennessee. As of June 2007, she provides the female voice of the airport train system at Denver International Airport. Born Adele Hausser on August 31, 1958, Adele was raised in Hawaii and later east Tennessee.
At age 16, she began taking college courses at Tennessee Technical University and working as a radio disc jockey in her hometown of Louisiana Follette, Tennessee.
Following her entry into radio, she worked as a radio news anchor at WYSH in Clinton, Tennessee and as a disc jockey at WRJZ in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she became the first female disc jockey in Knoxville. They have one son, Travis, born in 1985.
In 1981, Adele made the transition to television news, working at WTVK in weather in Knoxville where she began using her mother"s maiden name, Arakawa, at the suggestion of news director Hal Wanzer. Two years later, she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina to coanchor weekday evening newscasts for WRAL-television with Charlie Gaddy and Meteorologist Bob Debardelaben.
Her career next took the family to Chicago in 1989, where she again anchored weekday evening newscasts, this time for Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate WBBM-TV-television Since Christmas Day 1993, she has been a weekday evening newscast anchor for KUSA-television in Denver.