Biography

 

Jeff King
Anchor/Reporter
Maui TV News

Jeff King is a self-proclaimed "media junkie" with a background in virtually all forms of electronic and print media in both news and entertainment.

Currently serving as Anchor/Reporter and Executive Producer of Maui TV News. Prior to this assignment, Jeff was Senior Producer and Anchor/Reporter at On Maui, the MCC-TV News program, Jeff's reports have included in-depth coverage of major issues on Maui, including education, traffic, water, power and transportation. His career focus in recent years has also been in developing presence on the Internet for clients of Words and Pictures, the company he and his wife, Jody, own and operate in Kihei. Combining unique web design, custom digital video production and one-of-a-kind graphics into effective web sites has been their passion for several years.

Prior to that Jeff served as anchor and reporter for CBS-TV in Monterey, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. He started his full-time television career as a TV Weatherman in 1992. Before going into television, Jeff spent more than two decades in radio - both behind the microphone and in management and consulting. His radio days included several years working for film and broadcast legend Gene Autry, directing the company's FM stations in Seattle, Portland and Detroit. As a consultant and national radio voice-over talent, Jeff points out that his voice was on four different radio stations in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, in addition to nearly 200 radio stations in the US, Canada and Guam.

Jeff's voice-over work and creative productions have been heard and seen nationally on NBC-TV as well as dozens of net affiliate stations in California, Washington, Texas and New Mexico. He also "starred" as an intergallactic game show host on an interactive educational childrens' CD-ROM, in industrial video and on audio materials for national agricultural corporations, based in California. He has also narrated two books on tape.

It didn't "...all begin at a little 500 watt radio station in Lubbock, Texas..." (even though it included that). Jeff's media career began as a photojournalist/broadcaster in the U.S. Air Force in 1971. His four years as a military newspaper editor began inauspiciously when he accidentally dropped the front page on his foot (yes, they still used lead linotype presses then), a 75-pound lesson in "why we're glad we've progressed to desktop publishing." Following his military stint, Jeff completed his Journalism work at Texas Tech University while commencing his radio career.

Jeff and Jody originally came to Maui to create web presence for a major Maui company. That was about eight years ago. From here...the story begins.