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Atlanta's Amanda Davis is remembered by colleague and 11Alive anchor Jeff Hullinger
Jeff Hullinger is a 19 time-Emmy Award-winning news and sports anchor from Atlanta. He has also been inducted into the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle. Jeff is now with WXIA TV NBC Atlanta serving as 5, 6,10,11pm weeknight news anchor/weeknight sports anchor. He has worked as the morning drive news anchor on B98.5 WSB-FM, and the afternoon drive news anchor on News/Talk 750 WSB Radio. His career includes anchoring WAGA TV, being a host for CNN’s TalkBack Live, calling games for ESPN and doing play-by-play for the Atlanta Falcons.
Contents
- Atlantas Amanda Davis is remembered by colleague and 11Alive anchor Jeff Hullinger
- Background
- Career
- Awards and recognition
- References
Background
Hullinger has received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications from Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Career
Hullinger began his broadcast career in Denver, leaving it in 1981 to join KSL-TV in Salt Lake City as weekend sports anchor before returning in 1982 to join KOA-TV / KCNC-TV (KOA became KCNC in 1983) to host Denver Broncos pre-game shows and weekend sports.
He spent two years as ESPN TV's frontline College Football announcer including bowl games, and also called Men and Woman's NCAA College Basketball and the Arena Football League post-season.
He worked 18 years from 1984 to 2002 on Fox's Atlanta affiliate WAGA-TV, his services including being WAGA's weeknight sports anchor. "In 1996, Hullinger anchored 8 hours of FOX 5's coverage of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing coverage" He was also "Voice of the Falcons": radio voice of the Atlanta Falcons.
WSB radio. Jeff Hullinger is now working at WXIA-TV 11 Alive.
Awards and recognition
Hullinger is the recipient of multiple awards and honors. Jeff has been inducted into the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle. He is a 19 time Emmy Award winner; the most ever of any Atlanta Sports anchor, has been recognized multiple times at "Best of Atlanta", has been 3 times awarded "Best Play by Play" in the State of Georgia by the Associated Press as the voice of the Atlanta Falcons, and is Georgia "Sportscaster of the Year" by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
In both 2007 and 2008 he was a finalist at the Society of Professional Journalists annual "Green Eyeshade" Awards: In 2007 for Radio - "Best Newscast" and Radio - "Breaking News", and 2008 for Radio - "Best Newscast" and Radio - "Breaking News". In 2008, he won two regional RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards for news and reporting. In the spring of 2014 Hullinger and a team of 11Alive reporters won Gannett's top prize for "Watchdog Journalism" for their ongoing coverage of the troubled Georgia DFACS.