Isiah Carey

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Isiah Carey
Born (1970-10-17) October 17, 1970 (age 54)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.
Education Southern University
Occupation Broadcast journalist

Isiah Carey (born October 17, 1970) is an American television broadcast journalist and reporter who has worked for television and radio stations throughout the southeast portion of the United States. [1]

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Early life and education

Carey was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and attended McKinley Senior High School.[ citation needed ] After graduating from high school, Carey entered the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to study mass communications. In 1989, he enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge and before graduation he worked as one of the city's youngest radio news anchor and reporters for WXOK radio in Baton Rouge. [2]

Career

By 1990, Carey was also news director and anchor at KQXL-FM and WYCT-FM. That same year, he got his first break in TV as a reporter and weekend public-affairs talk-show host at WVLA-TV (NBC) (Baton Rouge). In 1991, he joined WAFB (Baton Rouge), where he remained for four years as a fill in co-host of a morning news program and general assignment reporter. Carey has worked at KARK-TV, channel 4 Little Rock, Arkansas and at television stations in Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. (BET). [3]

Carey currently works as a reporter for KRIV, channel 26, in Houston, Texas.

Honors and awards

Throughout his broadcasting career, he has won several awards, including an Emmy for live reporting while working in Little Rock after a plane crash in 1999, and an award from the Society of Professional Journalists in Memphis for investigative reporting in 2000. [4]

After a report on the city's homeless population, Houston Mayor, Bill White, declared June 23, 2009, "Isiah Carey Day" in Houston. [5]

While an investigative reporter at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, Carey was the winner of two awards by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2000.

Carey was also honored in 2008 by the University of Houston for his efforts in getting a Houston man cleared in the shooting of a pitbull that attacked his family. That man, Wady Spikes, was charged and jailed for animal cruelty. But after Isiah did an investigative report showing Spikes was protecting his grandchildren from the dogs a Harris County grand jury decided to clear the Houstonian of the charges.

Outtake

As a general assignment reporter in Arkansas, Carey often reported from remote and rural locations throughout the state. Reporting on the death of an adult chaperone at a football game at Augusta High School in 1996, Carey did several "stand-ups" to use in his story. During one of these stand-ups, a grasshopper flew into his mouth. Carey lost his composure and launched into a profanity-filled tirade about his hay fever, in a high-pitched Southern accent that contrasted with the deep voice and affirmative tone he normally uses on camera.

Although the bad take was never broadcast by the station, it was uploaded to YouTube in 2008 and became an internet phenomenon. [6] The video was played on Jimmy Kimmel Live , ET and was featured on Howard Stern . [6] It is also listed as one of the top viewed videos in any one day in Germany, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Mexico and France. [6] In February 2009, the video was uploaded on Facebook and continues to receive thousands of hits a day, and two Carey Fanclubs have been established. [7] The outtake was also parodied in the season two, episode 16 of The Cleveland Show , "The Way the Cookie Crumbles". In 2011, Carey was the subject of a "Web Redemption" on Tosh.0 . [8] An excerpt of the outtake was used in Michael Cera's 2014 album True That in the beginning seconds of the song "Moving In". [9]

Personal life

Arrest

Carey was arrested in October 2018 for driving while intoxicated in Montgomery County, Texas. The Houston Chronicle reported that his vehicle was swerving on the road, and authorities saw numerous indicators that Carey was intoxicated after performing a traffic stop. [10] Carey later apologized for the incident in social media posts.

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References

  1. ↑ FOX. "Isiah Carey | FOX 26 News Program Host". KRIV. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. ↑ "Isiah Carey Biography". Fan Unity. Archived from the original on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  3. ↑ "isiahcarey's newsroom". myFOX Houston. Archived from the original on 2008-11-13. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
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  5. ↑ "Isiah Carey Day in Houston". FoxNews. 25 June 2009. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20. Retrieved 2009-07-09.
  6. 1 2 3 "Bug in Mouth / Roving Reporter Etiquette #6 ORIGINAL VERSION". YouTube. 18 April 2008. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
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  8. ↑ Isiah Carey's Web Redemption
  9. ↑ Staff, Jasmin Staffer | Senior (2020-02-06). "My Scott Pilgrimage". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
  10. ↑ "Fox 26 News anchor Isiah Carey arrested on DWI charge", Houston Chronicle, October 10, 2018
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