Cher Calvin bags an Emmy

When I was in Los Angeles, I used to watch her morning news before I leave for work.
I really like her style of delivering the news and her demeanour in front the TV camera.

Cher Calvin bags an Emmy
By Ricky Lo
The Philippine Star 11/27/2006

She’s the face that greets L.A. with a big smile early mornings on the KTLA TV’s Morning Show, which starts before 5 a.m., Monday through Friday, like the local GMA 7 show Mornings@GMA (now Unang Hirit) where she started her career as a TV host in the mid-’90s before she moved to ABS-CBN.

The good news is that Cher Calvin has just won for Best Newscast in the just-concluded Emmy Awards, the first Filipino, if memory serves me right, to be so honored.

"I can’t believe it," Cher told The STAR in a phone interview as soon as she got home from the event. "It’s very exciting!"

Cher has been with KTLA for more than two years. Before that, she was with Fox Channel in Las Vegas. Both are newscasts, in contrast to Cher’s ABS-CBN show F which was more lifestyle, co-hosted by Angel Aquino and Daphne Oseña.

KTLA opens with Cher doing the newscast. Lately, she has been doing field reporting, together with 1994 Miss USA Lou Parker who competed in the Miss Universe Pageant held that same year in Manila. Herself a beauty queen, Cher was first runner-up in the 1994 Miss New York contest, the winner of which competed in the Miss USA search for the representative to the Miss Universe Pageant.

A Masscom graduate of a New York university, Cher worked as a researcher for some US magazines before she shifted to on-camera work. Born and raised in New York, she’s the only child of former actor Roger Calvin and the late Delia Santos, a psychologist.