Michelle Tuzee
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Michelle Tuzee is an American
United States
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 newscaster who co-anchors KABC‘s
KABC-TV
KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...

 Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...

at 5 pm and 11 pm with Marc Brown
Marc Brown (journalist)
Marc Alan Brown is a television news anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Brown co-anchors the station's Eyewitness News HD newscasts at 5 pm and 11 pm with Michelle Tuzee...

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Biography

Michelle Tuzee is an anchor for ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

 Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV
KABC-TV
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Michelle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California where she majored in Journalism.
Michelle’s first job in television news was at KJCT
KJCT
KJCT is a television station in Grand Junction, Colorado that serves the Grand Junction-Montrose market. It is an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company owned and operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company...

 in Grand Junction, Colorado
Grand Junction, Colorado
The City of Grand Junction is the largest city in western Colorado. It is a city with a council–manager government form that is the county seat and the most populous city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. Grand Junction is situated west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. As...

 where she was a general assignment reporter and later a producer and anchor. Those positions led to a medium market job with WBAY-TV, Green Bay, Wisconsin where she worked as a reporter.

Michelle went on to work at WFTX
WFTX
WFTX-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida licensed to Cape Coral. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter in Punta Gorda east of I-75/SR 93 near the Charlotte and Lee County line. The station can also be seen on Comcast...

 in Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers, Florida
Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....

, where she was a reporter and eventually anchor of the nightly newscasts. There she received an award from the Associated Press
Associated Press
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 for a series of reports on teen suicide.

Prior to arriving at KABC-TV she was anchor at WSVN
WSVN
WSVN, channel 7, is a television station located in Miami, Florida, USA. WSVN is owned by Sunbeam Television, and is an affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station has its studio facilities located in North Bay Village and transmitter based in north Miami-Dade County.WSVN operates a Key...

 in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
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 for the top-rated "Today in Florida" and "7 News at Noon."

In 1997, Michelle joined KABC-TV as an anchor for the station’s Eyewitness News 4 pm and 6 pm newscasts with Marc Brown. When Laura Diaz
Laura Diaz (TV anchor)
Laura Diaz is a Southern California newscaster. In September 2011, Diaz announced that she would be leaving KCBS-TV after nine years to pursue producing projects under her own banner....

 left KABC-TV to work for KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV, channel 2, is an owned-and-operated television station of the CBS Television Network, located in Los Angeles, California. KCBS-TV shares its offices and studio facilities with sister station KCAL-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter...

, Michelle was promoted to the 11 pm anchor position.

In August 2007, Michelle and Marc Brown began anchoring the 5 pm and 11 pm newscasts, and David Ono and Ellen Levya replaced her and Brown on the 4pm and 6pm newscasts.

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