Andrea Nakano c/o Napoli Management Group 8844 West Olympic Boulevard, Suite 100 Beverly Hills, California 90211
CAREER SUMMARY
Emmy Award-winning sports anchor/reporter with an extensive background in daily deadline story development, live sportscast production, and live field coverage, with fifteen years experience.
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University Stanford University San Francisco, California Palo Alto, California Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication Mass Media Institute Summer Program
American School in Japan Tokyo, Japan Diploma
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Sports /Reporter Spring 2013 to Present Comcast SportsNet-Bay Area (NBC Sports), San Francisco, California Freelance field sports coverage as assigned for the Bay Area regional sports network.
Sports Anchor/Reporter February 2010 to February 2013 KING-TV/KONG-TV/Northwest Cable News (Belo Corp.), Seattle, Washington Weekend sports anchor and reporter responsible for managing all weekend sports live programming on three combined Belo stations. Host weekly MLS Sounders FC Weekly Show including writing and editing features for the show. Report weekdays, covering Seahawks, Mariners, and college sports including Pac 12 teams including the University of Washington and Washington State. Contribute and anchor daily 30 minute Northwest Sports Tonight show, which includes highlights, guest sports interviews
Sports Anchor/Reporter February 2007 to March 2009 XETV-TV, San Diego, California Anchor/reporter of Friday/Saturday sports segment. Also produced, wrote and edited the segment. Co-host of 30-minute “That Sunday Sports Show”.
General Assignment Reporter October 2003 to February 2007 KFMB-TV, San Diego, California Reported live with packages for the noon, 4, 5 and 6:30pm newscasts. Emphasis on breaking news. Extensively covered the 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego County.
Anchor/Reporter May 2000 to October 2003 KION-TV, Salinas, California Produced, edited and anchored newscasts and sportscasts. Reported live for nightly newscasts.
News Anchor/Reporter June 1999 to May 2000 KRCR-TV, Redding, California Red Bluff Bureau reporter. Shot, edited and reported packages for nightly newscasts. Fill-in anchor.
News Anchor/Reporter/Producer May 1997 to May 1999 KIEM-TV, Eureka, California Weekend anchor/reporter for weekday evening newscasts
PROFESSIONAL AFFIL I ATIONS
Asian American Journalists Association
A W A R D S
2009 & 2008 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Achievement Sports Series
Represented by David Ahrendts 310.385. 8224 / davidahrendts @tvtalent.com