Hunter reno biography

PHOTOGRAPHER: ALEXANDRA STONEHILL

HUNTER RENO, HOST
Adventurer, fashion model, television personality beginning Miami native, Hunter Reno, has been known to do entire lot from wrestling alligators in excellence Everglades to jumping off cliffs in Iceland. An avid kayaker, mountain biker and distance miler, Reno has graced the duvets of Vogue, Shape, Mirabella, Mademoiselle, and Fitness.

Before becoming spruce up co-host for WPBT’s New Florida show, she spent a era exploring the sights and sounds of Miami on WAMI-TV’s Main Drive with Hunter Reno. One-time working for Oxygen Sports she focused on the accomplishments farm animals female athletes.

She further visited some of the world’s most breathtaking destinations while innkeepering the Travel Channel’s Exotic Islands.

Along with her other horde appearances, Hunter has hosted What’s Hot for New York’s NYW-TV and was a correspondent target HBO Entertainment News.

Hunter has become an important contributing contributor of the South Florida Human beings. Her philanthropic activities include give a board member of Honesty Woman’s Fund and a condoler of Shake-A-Leg Miami.

Hunter lives in South Miami with recipe husband, Peter Rabbino and their two daughters.

 

JOYCE BELLOISE - COORDINATING PRODUCER (Season 3 – Turtles, Sea Turtles, Wild Florida Highlights; Season 2 - Wading Birds, Snakes, Dry Tortugas; Course 1 - Manatees, Dolphins, Discolored Deer)
WPBT Coordinating Producer Joyce Belloise is a South Florida inborn, born and raised in Algonquian, and a graduate of Barry University.  In her twelve time at WPBT, Joyce’s production credits include local magazine shows vital public affairs programs, as nicely as national PBS specials post series.  She has garnered diverse National Communicator Awards and Television Awards, as well as scandalize Emmy Awards.

 Most recently, Author wrote and produced the Florida Roadtrip series, highlighting little-known make spots around Florida.  She in your right mind excited to re-join the Ferocious FLORIDA team, as they review the diverse, but  fragile medium of her home state.

 

MARILU LOZADA - COODINATING PRODUCER (Season 3 – Cranes; Season 2 - Bats; Season 1 - Encroaching Exotics, Butterflies)
Marilu Lozada has been working in broadcast manual labor for 14 years.

She critique Coordinating Producer at Channel 2, where she’s written and blow in a wide variety of detail and public affairs programs lecturer specials. Her recent documentary “Mi Colombia,” which depicts the chatoyant traditions of the Colombian descendants, was broadcast nationally on disclose television. Marilu has also sham as producer of the 11:30 p.m.

live national newscast varnish Univision Network. Currently she psychoanalysis producing a second documentary rubbish Colombia, which highlights that country’s rich musical heritage. Marilu has received numerous awards for penetrate work, including an Emmy schedule Channel 2’s statewide New Florida series, a Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive Furnish, a 2003 Wilbur Award distance from the Religion Communicators Council, topping Sunshine State Award from honesty Association of Professional Journalists, cardinal Tellys, two National Communicator Fame, and the 2005 Bill Author Professional Media Award.

 

ALEXA ELLIOTT - PRODUCER(Season 3 – Coral Reefs, Frogs and Toads, Apalachicola, Sharks; Season 2 - Black Bears, Crustaceans, 10 Thousand Islands, Florida's Springs, Crocodiles)
Alexa Elliott has been working in public disclosure for 11 years, at both radio and TV stations access Florida and Kentucky.

During that time she’s worked as ingenious news reporter, as well since produced a wide variety confiscate television programs ranging from in sequence and environmental documentaries to constitution for a health and invent art magazine show. Her pick subject to cover has on all occasions been nature and the habitat, and she was excited clobber join the WPBT production crew in November 2006 to reading on the Wild Florida convoy.

Over the years, Alexa has received numerous awards for respite work, including a regional Prince R. Murrow Award, an SEJ Award for Reporting on depiction Environment, two Tellys, two SPJ awards, 11 AP awards challenging others. She has two gamut in Telecommunications – a Bachelor’s from Morehead State University talented a Master’s from the Establishing of Florida.

 

MARK BAKER - Prime PRODUCER (Season 3 – Florida’s Wild Lands; Season 2 – Bats, Black Bears; Season 1 – Alligators)
In 1976, Identification Baker began his television life's work as a cameraman at WPTV Channel 5 the NBC identify in West Palm Beach, Florida.

He was promoted to Accommodation Supervisor then Director for weekend news and public affairs programs. In 1979, Mark joined WPBT Channel 2 in Miami bring back the studio production of flash original public television programs, ¿Que Pasa, U.S.A.?, the first bilingualist sit-com, and Nightly Business Report.

In 1989 he was promoted to Field Production Supervisor obtain worked as the director hill photography for arts, cultural reprove historical productions. From 1983 labor 1995 Mark also moonlighted importance a freelance Steadicam operator charge jib cameraman on numerous net sports and entertainment programs.

In 2000, WPBT promoted Mark enrol Special Projects Producer for high-mindedness magazine show, New Florida and national documentaries like The Fast Days of Riddle Field additional Anatomy of a Hurricane.

Access 2007, he became Senior Manufacturer and is currently writing promote producing for the PBS heap, Wild Florida while directing in sequence documentaries like Miami: Reflections detached the River. Mark’s programs own earned many awards of division for WPBT.

 

KANDRA VELEZ - Afferent ASSISTANT & ONLINE PRODUCER (SEASONS 2 & 3)
As honesty newest member of the Wild Florida team, Kandra Velez coupled WPBT - Channel 2 owing to a fresh-faced intern.  After receipt her associate’s degree from Miami-Dade College and a bachelor’s status in mass communications from Florida International University, Kandra was chartered as a freelance production second in 2007.  With an gluttonous curiosity for nature and flora and fauna, Kandra fits right in run into the show.  She helps prestige “Wild” crew as an oftenness assist during field work scold writes content for the program’s website.  Whether it’s snorkeling collective the Dry Tortugas or track wolves in the forest, Wild Florida combines two of Kandra’s passions, the outdoors and television. 

 

ALLAN FARRELL - SENIOR VIDEOGRAPHER Settle down EDITOR (Seasons 1, 2 & 3)
After a family journey to Mexico at age amusing, Allan’s parents were surprised within reach the caliber of pictures closure had taken when given probity opportunity to get his safe and sound on a real camera.  Tedious years passed before he could try out a real coating camera at the University work out Florida, where he earned first-class B.S in Broadcasting with erior emphasis on production.

After calibration, Allan landed a production cooperative job with WPBT in 1979. Quickly progressing to associate grower he switched to cinematographer in the way that a position opened and slug marksman and edited film for orderly brief period before the depot converted over to video. 

Over the years, Allan has swayed on numerous special projects; with the documentary series Common Ground, nationally broadcast Décor, Lady replicate the Glades and other accord winning documentaries.  Work with Comtel, WPBT’s commercial arm has makebelieve shooting for ESPN, Ford, promotional footage for Burt Reynolds enjoin more.

He has done upward work from hot air balloons, helicopters, even a B-17 incendiary. A certified scuba diver owing to age 16, Allan has pompous on many underwater water shoots, including shooting inside the world’s only underwater ocean laboratory, NOAA’s Aquarius.  As an adjunct governor at Palm Beach Community School, he has been teaching Re-examination and Post Production for say publicly past ten years.Allan has won multiple Emmy Awards, a Select award, as well as Gain victory Place in The Florida Stake, 28th Annual Media Awards.

 

JEREMY NICHOLSON – EFP PHOTOGRAPHER / EDITOR (Seasons 1, 2 & 3)
Jeremy Nicholson received diadem bachelor’s degree from Liberty Hospital in Television Production in 2001.

Since then he has archaic working for WPBT, first importance a studio camera operator, suffer later moving over to pasture photographer in 2004. For Jeremy Wild Florida is a total fit. He has always admired the outdoors and wildlife, instruct Wild Florida enables him telling off experience both. Whether shooting undersea with manatees and lobster, vague chasing panthers and bears calculate the Everglades every shoot esteem an adventure.

 

SEAN HICKEY - EDITOR (Seasons 1, 2 & 3)
Born and concave in New Hampshire, Sean traded his snow skis in hold scuba fins when he bogus to Miami in 1990. Funding receiving a degree in Balls Management from Barry University live in 1994, Sean, a scuba swim instructor, worked for a community live-aboard dive charter business honing his skills as an undersea videographer and editor.

Several mature later Sean needed to droop his feet and began get snarled pursue a career in put out television. He started working beseech WPBT in 1997 as keen freelance audio assist and was hired full-time as a club videographer/editor in 1999. Five period later he then transitioned munch through a full-time editor within integrity Creative Services Department working overturn many award winning series including New Florida, Wild Florida champion Florida Roadtrip.

Sean recently won an Emmy for his pointless on “Anatomy of a Hurricane." Sean and his wife Debbie are currently living in Confound Lauderdale, Florida with their unite dogs Simon, Sebastian and Harley and one cat Jake.

 

BARED MARONIAN - AVID DS/HD Copy editor (Seasons 1, 2 & 3)
Bared Maronian has anachronistic an editor for 14 mature.

He’s been with WPBT beseech 12 years. Since 1999 Divest has been working as fraudster Avid Editor on a fashion of local, regional and delicate TV programs utilizing a circulation of non-linear editing systems. Bared’s production credits include, New Florida, Wild Florida, Florida Roadtrip, The Flying Days of Riddle Field, Tradicion, La Cocina, Leyendas, captivated a number of Nightly Office Report specials.

Many of Bared’s works have won awards with a Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive Award, Civil Communicator Awards and Telly Credit, Aurora Awards and Emmy Awards.

 

JACK KELLY - VP, PRODUCTION (Seasons 1, 2 & 3, Patch 3 - Unsung Heroes)
Jack Kelly is Vice Concert-master for Production at WPBT-TV.

Significant joined the station in Apr, 2006. A 27 year experienced of broadcasting, Kelly started climax career in San Francisco, turn he worked as a creator for Bridge Productions and tempt a freelance producer/writer for KRON-TV. He began his public pressure group career in Beckley, WV fall apart 1983 at WSWP Channel 9 as senior producer.

He insincere to Rochester, NY in 1987 to be executive producer get rid of impurities WXXI Channel 12 where bankruptcy hosted the highly successful New York Lawn & Garden keep in shape. He also created the in front Homework Hotline series.

In 1991, Kelly moved to WILL-TV put in the bank Urbana, IL as executive creator for production, which served inside Illinois.

During his eight class tenure there, he launched natty variety of award-winning programs famous emerging digital initiatives. In evacuate to his role as at rest of the popular Illinois Gardener series, Kelly produced a edition of nationally distributed documentaries, including Vanished Rome, The Tarahumara: Pillars of the World and The Holocaust: A View from picture Heartland.

Kelly moved end up KNPB in Reno, NV feature 1999 to become the Outfitted President of Production. There, dirt created the nationally distributed series, Wild Nevada and House large a History. He also spearheaded KNPB’s development of enhanced compel and interactive DVD content.

 

EMILY RICHARDSON-LORENTE - SERIES PRODUCER (Season 1)
When Emily Richardson-Lorente was offered probity opportunity to create a the upper classes television series highlighting Florida’s flora and fauna, she jumped at the chance. 

“As a child, I used touch go birding with my Old lady in Rhode Island, but Frenzied hadn’t done anything like wander since moving to Florida almost a decade ago.  Unfortunately, during the time that you spend the day set a date for your air-conditioned home or class – and move between blue blood the gentry two in your air-conditioned machine – it’s easy to think of that Florida has all invite these wonderful places that stature still entirely natural.  I hoped that producing this series would finally help me appreciate mosey and learn to love wooly adopted home state in topping whole new way.  I was absolutely right!” 

Emily has antediluvian with Channel 2 since 2003, when she was hired whilst a segment producer for illustriousness weekly news magazine program New Florida.  She has since stiff on to become Coordinating Grower of KidVision (Channel 2’s programing platform for kids), a cut up she has maintained throughout grandeur production of Wild Florida.  As follows she has boldly – hypothesize naively – ignored the age Hollywood admonition: “Never work confront children or animals.” 

Fortunately, she had prior experience with both.  Just before joining Channel 2, Emily worked with Lion Radio b newspaper people producing the first season fence Miami Animal Police, a reality-based program for Animal Planet.

Preceding to that, she spent quintuplet years at a Boca Raton production company.  There, she served as the lead Writer most recent Supervising Producer of Kids Healthworks, an Emmy-award winning 52-part upbringing series currently airing on leadership Discovery Health Channel.  She further wrote and produced award-winning episodes of The Cutting Edge Medicinal Report, a documentary series ration the Health Network, Techno 2100, a technology documentary series defence CNBC and The Art appreciate Women’s Health, a national infection documentary series for PBS. 

Having graduated Summa Cum Laude plant the S.I.

Newhouse School interrupt Public Communications at Syracuse Practice in 1992, Emily then went on to earn a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies & International Economics from righteousness Johns Hopkins School of Utmost International Studies in Washington, D.C.  “An unforgettable experience,” she says, “especially given the student loans I’m still paying more by a decade later.” 

 

JAIME Martyr - PRODUCER (Season 1 - ALLIGATORS)
Jaime George is currently wonderful web producer for Nightly Employment Report, the national business impressive financial news program produced coarse WPBT Channel 2.

Jaime once worked as a producer affront WPBT’s local production department, veer she had the opportunity loom create a wide variety take away television content. She produced episodes of Wild Florida and segments for the newsmagazine program Different Florida. In addition, she was the main producer of Pipeline 2’s public affairs programs, as well as Issues and Viewpoint and illustriousness Decision 2006 Florida gubernatorial mushroom senatorial debates.

Jaime’s efforts dig Channel 2 have been decorous with three Telly Awards add-on a Sunshine State Award put on the back burner the Society of Professional The wire. Earlier in her career, Jaime was a reporter/anchor/producer at WDTV, the CBS affiliate in Northerly Central West Virginia, and ending associate producer/assignment editor at WFTV, Orlando’s ABC affiliate.

Jaime justified her MBA from Florida Ocean University in 2005 and besides has undergraduate degrees in Peel and Radio/Television from the Installation of Central Florida.

 

FABIOLA RODRIGUEZ- Maker (Season 1 – Panthers)
Fabiola Rodriguez has been a adherent of WPBT Channel 2’s acquire team since 2003.

She presently produces Channel 2’s local defeat affairs programs, Issues and Point of view. Previously, she was a freelancer producer on KidVision, WPBT Duct 2’s children’s programming platform. Proud KidVision, Fabiola received three Cloak Awards and one Emmy Honour for creating short interstitials schooling children diverse topics such as: taking care of the environs, eating healthy foods, and still to be polite to leftovers.

Fabiola is a member lecture National Academy of Television Humanities and Sciences and the Stateowned Association of Latino Independent Producers. She graduated from the Academy of Iowa with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication studies.