Career
From 2001-2005, he hosted GDLA"s nationally-syndicated companion show, Good Day Live, which aired on many Fox-owned and affiliated stations. Edwards began his broadcasting career after graduating from the University of Miami (earning a degree in history) and attending the University of Houston (unfinished work on a master"s degree in clinical psychology). His first broadcasting job was in the late 1960s with KMSC radio station in Clear Lake City, Texas.
He moved up to Houston, Texas, radio station KTRH, where he hosted a nighttime call-in show.
While in Houston, he also worked at Columbia Broadcasting System television affiliate KHOU-television, where he was a news anchor and hosted shows. In the mid-1970s, he worked at World's Largest Store -television in Chicago, Illinois, as host of Department of Administration and Management Chicago and Friday Night with Steve Edwards.
In 1978, Edwards moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked at Columbia Broadcasting System-owned KNXT (later KCBS-television), in which he hosted infotainment programs such as Two On The Town with Connie Chung and later Melody Rogers, and his own self-titled talk show. While at the station, he served as its entertainment editor and as a weatherman.
He also worked on The Baxters, an experimental sitcom produced by Norman Lear, and was lead host on the variety show On Stage America.
He did Entertainment Tonight for one season, and moved to KABC-television in 1984. At KABC, he hosted Master of Arts Los Angeles, first with Cristina Ferrare followed by Tawny Little, along with Hollywood Closeup and an afternoon show, 3:30. Through these years he was a talk radio host for KABC with both the Steve Edwards Show and Sports Talk.
Edwards got back into local television in 1993, when he began hosting Live in Los Angeles, an infotainment program on KCAL-television Channel 9.
Edwards became an anchor and host of KTTV"s Good Day Los Angeles in 1995. Currently Steve continues to co-host GDLA and co-anchoring Fox 11 News at Noon together with Maria Sansone.
Through the years Edwards has been the host of many unsold pilots including game shows, variety shows and talk shows. Foreign instance, he hosted a 1990 pilot for a potential syndication run of the mid-80s National Broadcasting Company game show Scrabble which was not picked up due to a glut in the syndicated game market that year.
