Dayna Devon (born March 20, 1970) is an American journalist.
Biography
Devon is a native of San Antonio, Texas, and a graduate of the
University of Texas at San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA or UT San Antonio) is a Public university, public research university in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Established in 1969,KTSA-AM radio in San Antonio. She subsequently was an anchor for
KMID-TV
KMID (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Permian Basin area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Odessa-licensed Fox affiliat ...
(
ABC
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) in
Midland, Texas
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, and
KLST
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(
CBS
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) in
San Angelo, Texas
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. In 1997, Devon joined the ABC's
Memphis, Tennessee
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affiliate
WPTY-TV
WATN-TV (channel 24) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate WLMT (channel 30). The two stations share studios at the Shelby Oaks C ...
as a reporter. The following year, she was promoted to anchor of the station's three news broadcasts. In 1998, Devon and her news team were awarded a "Best Live Broadcast" Emmy Award.
In 2004 she appeared in the '' Star Trek: Enterprise'' episode “ The Augments” as the N.D. Engineer. She was the co-anchor, with Mark McGrath, of the television show ''
Extra
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'', until 2008. She joined ''Extra'' in 1999 as the weekend anchor, then became the weekday anchor in 2003. In January 2009, Devon became an on-air presenter on HSN, representing the Sensa Weight-Loss System. In the fall of 2009, Devon moved to ShopNBC, regularly presenting Sensa systems in "Our Top Value" presentations. As of January 2013 Devon is a cast member of the new
TLC
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reality show ''Plastic Wives''.
She currently is a reporter for
KTLA
KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is ...
in Los Angeles. As such, she hosts the station's 7:30 PM local content segment with a lifestyle program called "LA Unscripted."