Melanie Camp
 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (March 2021) |
Melanie Camp | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Perth, Western Australia |
| Occupation | Media professional |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Website | www |
Melanie Camp is an Australian-born media professional based in Houston, Texas. One of five children, she grew up in Perth, Western Australia.
Career
[edit]Melanie Camp[1] is a Houston based television correspondent. She is part of the team on "Houston Life",[2] a live, daytime lifestyle show that airs weekdays on KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston.
Camp has interviewed celebrities such as Trae tha Truth, Atsuko Okatsuka and Shaquille O'Neal.[3]
Camp was co-host on AM Buffalo, a weekday morning program on WKBW-TV, working alongside longtime host Linda Pellegrino, who retired in December 2020. After that, Camp started hosting the show.
Prior to moving to Western New York, she worked as a digital reporter and managing editor for local newspaper Yo! Venice, a print and online news source for the Venice Beach community in Venice, Los Angeles. She also worked as a host for Civilized.Life and as a host on "BattlecamLive", a two-hour, live, interactive show broadcast on Dish Network and online at Battlecam.com.
Camp got her start in media in outback Australia at the regional radio station Power FM 98.1, based in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. Here she worked as the station copywriter, commercial producer, and afternoon DJ.
She has worked consistently in both radio and television ever since.
For over five seasons she was a regular on Home in WA,[4] on the Seven Network in Perth, Western Australia, and hosted many TV specials for the station, including the game show Finders Keepers and the Our WA travel specials.
As a radio DJ, Camp worked for DMG's Nova 937, Austereo's 2Day FM, 96FM, and 92.9FM, where she was host of the late-night Australia's Most Wanted[5] countdown.
Camp was featured in the Perth Confidential section of The West Australian in 2012.[6]
She was in the gangster spoof "Hit Team".[7]
She is a member of the fake band TigerTripp. Their single "The Ice Cream Song"[8] was released in October 2014 and the music video had over 70,000 views on YouTube.
In May 2022, Camp left Buffalo to join KPRC-TV[9] in Houston as a correspondent for Houston Life.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Melanie Camp - an Aussie Finding Her Way in the USA". 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Melanie Camp".
- ^ ""I Shoved the Microphone in His Face": Chaos over Free Food from Shaquille O'Neal Described by Houston Journalist". 30 June 2023.
- ^ Home in WA
- ^ "Perth". hit network!. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
- ^ "Camp cuts teeth in LA". 28 January 2012.
- ^ "Edgy name for a silly film. But not bad". 25 July 2018.
- ^ "The Ice Cream Song". YouTube. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Get 2 Know Houston Life's newest personality, Melanie Camp!". 13 June 2022.
- ^ Pergament, Alan (10 May 2022). "'AM Buffalo' co-host Melanie Camp, meteorologist Michelle McLeod appear ready to exit WKBW". Buffalo News. Retrieved 12 September 2022.