Mike Bush is a veteran, award winning news anchor/reporter for KSDK-TV (NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

) in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

.

Biography

At the time of this writing, he is the anchor for Newschannel5's 5, and 10pm newscasts. He moved to the news anchor desk in 2003 after 18 years as the station's Sports Director.

Awards

Bush has won numerous awards including more than 50 regional Emmy's for his anchoring, reporting and writing. He's also won more than a dozen Edward R. Murrow awards including a national Murrow award in 2009 for reporting. In addition, he's won a dozen AP/Illinois and Missouri Broadcasters Association awards for excellence and a Telly award for producing the National Sportsmanship Awards for CBS College Sports.

Charities

In 2011, Bush celebrated his 25th year as the local host of the MDA

MDA

-Companies, organizations and government bodies:* Maritime Domain Awareness, part of a U.S. Government interagency and international maritime security effort* MDA , formerly the Museum Documentation Association...

 telethon. He began hosting with former KSDK meterologist Bob Richards and through all those years, MDA has been able to raise more than $40 million dollars for the St. Louis area.

Personal

Bush is married to the former Claudia Ashton and together they have 4 children. Matthew (1983), Jennifer (1985), Daniel (1989), Ryan (1997).

External links

• "Best TV-Sports Anchor – 2001" from Riverfront Times
  Riverfront Times
  The Riverfront Times is a weekly newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri that consists of local politics, music, arts and dining news in the print edition and daily updates to blogs and photo galleries on its website...
  
  
• "Bush renews deal with KSDK" from St. Louis Business Journal
• "KSDK captures 13 Emmys" from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...