Sharon Dahlonega Bush (born Sharon Daisy Raiford) is an American television
newscaster and print
journalist.
["Additions Made To Newswatch 3 Staff" ''The Commercial Appeal'', February 3, 1981.] She was born in
Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in
Los Angeles, California. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National
Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were originally named in honor of W. C. Handy, " ...
s.
Education
Bush studied philosophy at
North Carolina A&T State University. She later studied at the
University of Detroit, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and
Georgia State University at
Atlanta.
["Anchoring the News", ''Memphis Tri-State Defender'', September 7, 1984.]
Career
Bush became American television's first
African-American female
weather anchor of
primetime
Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to ...
news in 1975 at
WGPR-TV, the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
[TV Week, ''Greensboro Daily News'', December 12, 1976.]
Sharon Crews (as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at
CBS and
NBC network affiliates
in
North Carolina and
Tennessee, respectively, before becoming an
Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for
Black Entertainment Television
Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global via BET Networks and has offices in New York City, Los ...
.
Bush worked as a morning news anchor at
WGHP-TV, the then-
ABC affiliate in
High Point, North Carolina.
She was an executive producer of the 1985 National
Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were originally named in honor of W. C. Handy, " ...
s.
Personal life
Bush is married to
Grand L. Bush.
Grand L. Bush profile
imdb.com; retrieved March 10, 2007.
References
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Living people
African-American television personalities
American television news anchors
Weather presenters
Georgia State University alumni
University of Detroit Mercy alumni
Writers from Greensboro, North Carolina
African-American women journalists
African-American journalists
American women television journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women