Arch Deal
Email: ********@*****************.***
Address:
City: Odessa
State: FL
Zip: 33556
Country: USA
Phone: 813-***-****
Skill Level: Any
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Primary Skills/Experience:
Professional TV/Radio News Anchor in 12th largest US market. TV News Director and narrator for documentaries. Owner/Director 'Voice of Business, performing narrations nationwide, including Leeds Theater in England. Sound editorial judgment and experience in directing and presenting news stories in a clear, objective, non-biased manner. Experienced in background videography and editing. Always committed to maintaining journalistic excellence and integrity. News Anchor WFLA-TV, Tampa-St Petersburg, Fl News Director/News Anchor WSTP (formerly WLCYTV) St Petersburg, FL
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory NC 1/2001 to 6/1962 (Journalism)
Job History / Details:
Summary
Professional TV/Radio News Anchor in 12th largest US market. TV News Director and narrator for documentaries.
Owner/Director 'Voice of Business, performing narrations nationwide, including Leeds Theater in England.
Sound editorial judgment and experience in directing and presenting news stories in a clear, objective, non-biased manner.
Experienced in background videography and editing.
Always committed to maintaining journalistic excellence and integrity.
News Anchor WFLA-TV, Tampa-St Petersburg, Fl
News Director/News Anchor WSTP (formerly WLCYTV) St Petersburg, FL
Highlights
Firm grasp of journalistic ethics..
accomplished in voice-overs
Motivational speaker nationally.
Author of nationally published book called: Corporate Fall Guy...the life and actionls of a TV News Anchor/Chosen as one of 35 nationwide athletes as a Miller Lite All-Star, performing nationally as an All-Star and a Media-Marketing representative for Miller Brewing. Contrary to the title, the book praises Miller.
Accomplishments
Promoted to Lead Anchor after just [ six] months with [WFLA-TV Tampa, FL.
Promoted to [News Director/TV Anchor] after just years with WTSP-TV (formerly WLCY-TV)
Voted "Best TV Personality" in ratings in the Tampa Bay Market after years of performing.
Wrote and published an award-winning book: Corporate Fall Guy, available on Amazon and as an EBook on Kindle, Nook and Apple!
Experience
12/7/2012 12:00:00 AM
Arch Deal Bio
As a newscaster at WSOC-TV, Charlotte, North Carolina, he was brought to the Tampa Bay area to eventually would end up as a street reporter at WFLA-TV, quickly working his way up to anchoring the six and eleven o'clock PM news and legendary status.* Performing a documentary on skydiving, Arch was talked into making one jump! He now has amassed over 6-thousand jumps including one in which neither chute worked.
He fell 3,000 feet, impacting in a citrus grove at Cypress Gardens, FL In spite of a broken neck, six ribs, broken back and separated pelvis, Arch survived and returned to anchor the news 12 weeks later.
With this background, Arch does a lot of motivational speaking, and is a competitive ballroom dancer, never feeling any effects from that dramatic fall.
Miller Brewing Company hired Arch as a Miller Lite All-Star, and Media Marketing Representative for 10 years, Skydiving into most major stadiums in America.
Education
1955 Lenoir-Rhyne University Hickory, NC
Bachelor of Arts Journalism
While at the University, worked full-time as an on-air personality and news reporter for WIRC Radio, Hickory, NC. Working 60 hours a week and maintaining an 18 semester hour study regimen.