Carlos Amezcua is a journalist best known for his sixteen years as the original co-anchor for the ''

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'', with Barbara Beck as his co-anchor, Mark Kriski handling weather and

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reporting on the entertainment industry. Airing at 5:00 am, the crew became comfortable and humor crept into the newscasts. Managing executive Steve Bell described the show as, "the first one with the crazy anchors". In September 2007, Amezcua left

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for

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, where he replaced

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as anchor of the ''Fox 11 News'' at 10:00 pm; he left KTTV in 2013 to establish his own media company, Carlos Media Corporation. From 2015 to 2019, he served as a co-anchor at

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San Diego. He is currently (2020) the co-host of the ''Carlos & Lisa'' show (Lisa Remillard) on BEONDTV, and

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Los Angeles. Born in San Diego, Amezcua is the son of Don Oscar Amezcua, a member of the

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and founder of Mariachi Guadalajara. Amezcua has lent his voice to the Latin Grammy Awards and has a gold record for his translation of "Let it Snow" for Chicago's '' Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album''. He served as a missionary for

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in Guatemala/El Salvador from 1973 to 1975 and attended

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studying journalism (1975). He also read the Christmas story with

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for a program associated with the lighting of the

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in 1998.

Awards

* 22 Emmy Awards * National Impact Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism * Radio Television News Association

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* George Foster Peabody Award (with his team)

References

External links

Carlos Amezcua LinkedIn
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Amezcua, Carlos Living people American television journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Television anchors from Los Angeles Brigham Young University alumni San Diego State University alumni American male journalists Converts to Mormonism American Mormon missionaries in Guatemala Latter Day Saints from California