Hank Tester Biography

Hank Tester is an American journalist working for NBC6 as a reporter at 5 pm and 6 pm. He attended the Nothern Arizona University situated in Flagstaff, Arizona.

His career includes having worked as a news director, news anchor, reporter, political commentator, assignment editor, and also a TV station owner. He is currently living with his wife, Lourdes, in Miami, Florida.

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Hank Tester is a CBS4 News general task columnist. He joined WFOR-TV, CBS4 Miami in October 2015. Before joining CBS4, he was a general task journalist at WTVJ, NBC6, Miami, Florida.

He started his news vocation behind the mouthpiece at KEOS Radio in Flagstaff, Arizona in1962 while he was going to school in Flagstaff and has been grinding away from that point forward. “It has been one serious run and it isn’t finished at this point,” says CBS4 correspondent Hank Tester.”

Hank moved on from Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff in 1966 getting a Master’s qualification in American History. After graduation, his TV profession took off in Las Vegas in the wake of tolerating an instructing position with the Clark County School District.

He later changed from the study hall into the School District’s Public Broadcasting TV slot where he delivered chronicled and instructive programming.

While making documentaries, he likewise secured an assortment of news stories in Vegas including the Nevada Legislature and the Nevada Gaming Commission. During those assignments, he built up Newsnight 10, the PBS station’s honor winning report.

By 1971, Hank and different financial specialists built up Las Vegas Valley Broadcasting Company which by 1980 obtained the permit for Las Vegas’ Channel 3 NBC partner.

By the late 1980s Valley Broadcasting had progressed toward becoming Sunbelt Broadcasting then Intermountain West Communications Company.

He worked a few TV and radio stations in a few western states incorporating KRNV in Reno, KSNV in Las Vegas and KYMA in Hank’s main residence of Yuma, Arizona.

Hank touched base in Miami in 1992, only a month in front of Hurricane Andrew in the wake of being employed by WTVJ. His revealing endeavors brought about the TV channel gathering being perceived with the DuPont-Columbia University Award and the George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award.

Hank has gotten various honors all through his vocation as a communicate columnist including a few Emmy grants. In April 2005, he was regarded with the Silver Circle Award by the Suncoast Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences.

The Silver Circle is the most astounding honor granted to South Florida to communicate writers in acknowledgment of 25 years of work. Hank likewise got the Nevada Broadcasters Hall of Fame Award in 2015.

He has been detailing the day by day news in South Florida for more than 23 years with a capacity to “recount to a story” in a reasonable and one of a kind style that resounds with watchers. He appreciates the CBS4 newsroom air where learning, background, and veteran nearness are valued.

Hank’s communicating profession has included filling in as news executive, anchorperson, journalist, political reporter, task manager and TV slot proprietor. Raised on a little farm in Arizona, he took in the estimations of effectiveness and quality work.

Hank Tester lives in Miami with his better half Lourdes, a legitimate aide. They share four little girls and three grandkids. Hank and Lourdes appreciate finding out about the historical backdrop of Cuba.

They claim three great autos and are individuals from the Antique Automobile Club of America. They frequently show their great vehicles at shows around Florida including the 1967 National Award-winning Volkswagen Karmann Ghia.

Experience

Freelance Reporter
Company Name WFOR/CBS4
Dates Employed Oct 2015 – Present
Employment Duration 4 yrs
Location Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
Freelance Reporter

News Correspondent
Company Name Keys Radio Group/WFFG
Dates Employed Nov 2004 – Present
Employment Duration 14 yrs 11 mos
LocationMarathon, Florida
News and commentary from “The Mainland” for listeners in the Florida Keys.
WFFG is heard from Naples, Florida, the entire Florida Keys and Cuba.

Personal Profile
Company Name Hank Tester
Dates Employed 1992 – Present
Employment Duration 27 yrs
Location Miami
PERSONAL PROFILE

Television news reporter with vast experience in working during the past two decades in Miami, Florida one of the nation’s most unique and diverse television markets in the nation has provided me a myriad of contacts, insights and strategies that would benefit any organization looking for a strategic thinker, a person that can organize and arrange, values responsibility, and has a high public profile with the ability to interact with clients in person or via multiple media platforms.

Reporter
Company Name WTVJ Miami, Florida
Dates Employed Jul 1992 – Jan 2015
Employment Duration 22 yrs 7 mos
Location Miami

As a General Assignment reporter covering: South Florida tourism and economics. The Florida Keys. I have specialized in reporting on the Cuban Exile Community, Indian and Para-mutual gambling and have become an expert at hurricane coverage. This along with producing, writing over 10-thousand day-to-day Miami stories dealing with crime, politics, and human interest features.

Highlights:
Principal reporter on the team that won the Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards for coverage of Hurricane Andrew.
The Cuban Rafter Crisis of 1994.
Scores of search missions with Brothers to the Rescue.
Live from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba with the arrival of the Taliban prisoners.
Live from Kingston during the visit of Pope John Paul.
Breaking the Cuban spy story.
Numerous interviews with President George H.W. Bush.
Numerous breaking news and weather stories.

Shareholder
Company Name Sunbelt Communications
Dates Employed 1979 – 1992
Employment Duration 13 yrs
Location Las Vegas, Nevada
With several other individuals, he owned and operated Television stations KVBC Las Vegas, Nevada, KRNV, Reno, Nevada, and KYMA Yuma, Arizona. All were NBC Affiliates. They were a small company(Sunbelt Broadcasting) so at times and at various stations he served as News Director, Assignment Editor, Editorial Writer, Public Affairs Director, and on-air political reporter and member of the Board of Directors.

News Director
Company Name KLVX Las Vegas Public Television
Dates Employed 1969 – 1979
Employment Duration 10 yrs
Location Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Position: School teacher/Television Consultant/News-Director
He was a U.S. History/Nevada History Teacher with Clark County School District and at the same time, he was a teacher consultant involved in the development of an Educational Television Social Science series that aired on the District’s owned and operated KLVX-TV.

He eventually moved to the station full time and developed and managed their News and Public Affairs Department. Highlights included instituting the first state-wide coverage of the Nevada Legislature, a newscast, a television news magazine, and live coverage of the Nevada Gaming Commission’s monthly meetings.

Hank Tester Age

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Hank Tester Wife

He is married to Lourdes and the couple lives in Miami, Florida, USA.

Hank Tester Kids

His daughter, Shelby Rogers is a college student and works as a marketing specialist in Salt Lake City. His other daughter, Stephanie Pineiro, graduated in 2010 from Florida State University. Kristy Barker is a realtor with South Beach Investments in Miami Beach.

Hank Tester Height

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Hank Tester Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of between $ 100, 000 and $ 1 million.