Julie Tristan is an American radio & television personality from

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the Greater St. Louis, ...

Career

Tristan is the host of The Wake Up with Bret & Julie on Y98. She is also the afternoon on-air talent on 102.5 KEZK. She's also an MMJ Reporter, Anchor and Producer for HEC Media's "Spotlight STL" airing on KPLR 11 Sundays at 9:30am. She also makes time to run her production company 8 Dogs Video where she is a freelance videographer/editor/host www.8DogsVideo.com. Previously Tristan did middays 10am-2pm on Y98 and was the interim night DJ on Y98 from 7pm-Midnight. Tristan hosted "Billy & Julie in the Morning" on 103.3

KLOU KLOU (103.3 FM) is a radio station with a classic hits format in St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in hits from the 1980s and 1990s with some 1970s hits mixed in. Its transmitter is located in Gravois, and operates from studios in St. Louis s ...

. She was also the host of "Show Me St. Louis" at

KSDK-TV KSDK (channel 5) is a television station in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Market Street in Downtown St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shr ...

, the

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affiliate in St. Louis, Missouri. She is also a radio host on the weekends for

WARH WARH (106.5 Hertz, MHz "106.5 The Arch") is a commercial FM broadcasting, FM radio station city of license, licensed to Granite City, Illinois and serving Greater St. Louis including sections of Illinois and Missouri. WARH is owned by Hubbard Br ...

106.5 The Arch. Tristan previously was a reporter & weekend anchor at

KOMU-TV KOMU-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Columbia, Missouri, United States, serving the Columbia–Jefferson City market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. The station's studios and transmitter are located on US 63 southeast ...

, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri. Tristan, a St. Louis native, also worked at Clear Channel Radio-Total Traffic as a traffic reporter and voice-over talent for

Oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

103.3 KLOU-FM, KMJM-FM Magic 104.9 & KATZ-AM Gospel 1600. She then was the executive producer and co-host for the nationally syndicated Steve and DC Morning Show. She has also been an on-air talent for WVRV-FM 101.1 The River (Bonneville Radio).

Awards

Julie Tristan has won 3

Mid-America Emmy Awards The Mid-America Emmy Awards are a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The division was founded in 1976 and in addition to granting the Mid-America Emmy Awards, it recognizes awards scholarships, honors industry vete ...

-In 2022 Tristan was nominated for 3

, 2 in the "Magazine Program" category for "Spotlight STL" from HEC Media & 1 for "Societal Concerns-Short Form Content" for her MMJ story about the “Second Chance Ranch”. -In 2021 Tristan won 1

in the "Magazine Program" category for being a producer/host/MMJ for "Spotlight STL" with HEC Media. -In 2020 Tristan won 2

, 1 in the "Magazine Program" category for "Spotlight STL" and 1 in "Public/Current/Community Affairs" for her MMJ story about "The Onion House" with HEC Media In 2012 Tristan was nominated for a

in the “On-Camera Talent: Performer/Host” category. -Audacy STL Star of the Quarter for excellence in creativity, community & communication -”Best Social Integration” iHeartRadio Influencers Awards -"Philanthropist Of The Year", Gateway Pet Guardians Animal Rescue -“Spirit of Hope Award”, along with co-workers American Cancer Society -$50,000 Grant winner, Petco -iHeartMedia Leader in the Workplace -KSDK-TV “Star of the Week”

Education

Tristan grew up in Creve Coeur and attended Pattonville High School. After realized she "didn’t want to study to be a surgeon at SLU after I took biology and had to dissect a frog; she earned her Bachelor of Journalism degree from

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Universit ...

References

External links

Official website

KSDK Show Me St. Louis

Julie Tristan on OpenBeast

Radio Traffic Reporter

Show Me St. Louis Spotlights Phillips & Company
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tristan, Julie Living people University of Missouri alumni American television news anchors Journalists from St. Louis American women television journalists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women