Colleen Williams

Colleen Williams is the co-anchor of the award-winning 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday editions of the "Channel 4 News" with Paul Moyer.

Williams joined NBC4 in August l986 as a weekend co-anchor and was promoted to the 5 p.m. weekday anchor position in February 1993. Prior to joining the "Channel 4 News," Williams was the co-anchor of the KCBS-TV weekday news broadcast "Live At Five," a position she assumed in June 1985. She joined KCBS-TV in January l983 as weekend co-anchor.

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Williams was with KPIX-TV in San Francisco from l981 to 1983, where she anchored the noon and weekend news broadcasts. From l978 to 198l, she was with WOWT-TV in Omaha, Nebraska, starting as anchor of the noon news and moving up to anchor the "Live At Five" newscast in l979. In l977, Williams was a drive-time anchor and general assignment reporter for WOW Radio in Omaha.

Williams began her career in broadcasting at the Omaha Public School System, where she was a general assignment reporter for a National Public Radio station, and taught radio and television to high school students who operated the station.

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she moved across the United States and Canada as an Air Force "brat." Williams attended Creighton University and the University of Nebraska, earning a bachelor of science degree in education.

Williams is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including multiple Emmy and Golden Mike Awards for Best Newscast 30 Minutes or Under. In 2002, Colleen won an Emmy and Golden Mike Award for her work on the KNBC news special "LA Riots: Rubble to Rebirth" and "4th of July Shooting at LAX," which won in the category of Best Live Coverage of an Unscheduled Event.

She co-anchored the live coverage of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games Centennial Park bombing. The NBC4 footage of the event was seen around the world and won a Golden Mike and an Associated Press Award for Best Live Coverage of a News Story.

In 1995 she received two local Emmy Awards, one for Best Daily Newscast (60 minutes) and the other for her outstanding contributions to the "OJ Simpson: The Trial" news series.

In 1990 Williams met her husband, an Air Force major, while on assignment during the Persian Gulf War. They now reside with their son in Pasadena.