Demetria Kalodimos is an Emmy Award-winning anchorperson for WSMV-TV

WSMV-TV

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, an NBC

NBC

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 affiliate based in Nashville in the U.S. state

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 of Tennessee

Tennessee

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. She anchors the weeknight broadcasts at 5, 6 and 10 PM, and is the longest continuously-serving evening news anchor ever at WSMV.

Life and education

Kalodimos grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois

Morton Grove, Illinois

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, a suburb of Chicago

Chicago

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. She earned her bachelors degree in music education from Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University

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 in 1981. She later earned a master of science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In the early 1990s Kalodimos was part of a lawsuit involving a contractor she hired to build a home. The contractor eventually filed for bankruptcy.
In the late 1990s she went through a well-publicized divorce and faced sensational allegations regarding her behavior.

Career

Kalodimos started her journalism career at WICD in Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

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. She joined WSMV in Nashville in 1984. In 2000, she started Genuine Human Productions, a documentary film company focusing on people. Her first feature-length documentary was Pre-Madonna, a film about 1970s Nashville. The film won an award of excellence at the 2004 Berkeley Video and Film Festival.

Honors and awards

• 2007 - Honorary doctor of humane letters from Illinois Wesleyan University
• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors
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   Award for television investigative journalism
• 2005 - Favorite Local News Anchor, Out and About Newspaper

External links

• Genuine Human Productions