Steve Rondinaro

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steve.rondinaro@wwaytv3.com

Steve Rondinaro has been WWAY-TV’s main anchor and managing editor since March 2007. He has also served a stint as the station’s acting news director. Steve also creates weekly “Rondo Words” commentaries and essays as well as special reports from the field.

A winner of four Emmy awards, Steve has received 14 Emmy nominations over the course of his career. He has a host of Associated Press, Telly, and other journalism awards to his professional credit.

Steve started in broadcasting at age 15 at the local radio station in his hometown of Watkins Glen, NY. College took him to the State University of New York at Geneseo with part-time radio and TV jobs in Elmira, Batavia, and Buffalo, New York. After graduation in 1976, Steve went full-time as a reporter at WROC-TV in Rochester, NY. In 1979 he made a huge market jump to Miami, where he spent a total of 7 years as a main anchor and reporter at WSVN and WTVJ. Steve moved to Orlando in 1986 where he was the main anchor at WESH and a point man for the station’s live space coverage at the Kennedy Space Center for 9 years. Steve started his own broadcasting business in the North Carolina mountains in 1995, where he owned and operated a group of radio stations and later a TV station. That was punctuated by a return to Orlando TV at WFTV in 1999.

Steve sold his stations and moved to Wilmington in 2007. In addition to his work at WWAY, 2010 will mark Steve Rondinaro’s 32nd year as host of the national broadcasts and cinecasts of the Drum Corps International World Championships.

Where I live

New Hanover

Birthday

29 Mar 2007

Gender

Male