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Andrew Amador

Andrew Amador is an American television and radio personality. He has worked as a news anchor, entertainment correspondent and reporter for television stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Detroit and also has anchored and reported for CBS Radio in Los Angeles (KNX, KFWB).

A fixture on Los Angeles television for many years, he was the weathercaster and environmental reporter for KHJ-TV (now KCAL-TV). Amador was nominated for a feature story Emmy Award while there.

Amador has twice been nominated for local news Emmys and was recognized for his journalistic excellence by the Associated Press, The Radio-Television Digital News Association and the Los Angeles Press Club. He is the recipient of a Golden Mike for his reporting work at KNX.

Amador's acting credits include roles in L.A. Story , The First Power , Taking Care of Business and The Net. He has appeared on network television in Dallas , Murder She Wrote , Quantum Leap and The Hogan Family .

His commercial voiceover, narration, film trailer and promotional work includes campaigns for record labels recording artists in the U.S. and abroad.

Amador's Los Angeles theatre roles include blind baseball fan Greg in Bleacher Bums, playboy Elyot Chase in Noël Coward's Private Lives , and Petkoff in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man .

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