Jeff ullinger is a 0 time-

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-winning

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and

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from

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. He has also been inducted into the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle. Jeff is now with

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NBC Atlanta. He has worked as the morning drive

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on B98.5

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, and the afternoon drive news anchor on News/Talk 750 WSB Radio. His career includes anchoring

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, being a host for

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’s '' TalkBack Live'', calling games for

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and doing

play-by-play In sports broadcasting, a sports commentator (also known as sports announcer or sportscaster) provides a real-time commentary of a game or event, usually during a live broadcast, traditionally delivered in the historical present tense. Radio was ...

for the

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Early life

Hullinger has received a

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degree in Mass Communications from

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Career

Hullinger began his broadcast career in Denver, leaving it in 1981 to join

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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

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s and weekend sports. He spent two years as

TV's frontline

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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

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

. WSB radio. Jeff Hullinger is now working at

11 Alive.http://www.11alive.com/bullpen/

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 20 time

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

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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

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s 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.

References

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