Tanya McRae on Clubhouse

Bio

Anchor/Reporter/Emmy Winning Producer/Field Director/Writer • Host - “In Focus” public affairs show on Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles • PENN Alumna • Straight Talker • Six Footer • Peace & Unity Seeker •

www.TANYAMCRAE.com

Tanya began her career in television on the assignment desks at ABC “World News Tonight” and “Nightline” in New York. Then she worked at the local WPIX station then onto one of many shows she would produce for Lifetime Television, the talk show “New Attitudes”. After a visit to California, Tanya fell in love with the year round sunshine and accepted a position as the host and producer of the award winning Time Warner Cable community affairs program in Los Angeles, “In Hot Pursuit: South Bay’s Most Wanted”.

Tanya went on to become a field producer and director, and spent the next decade working on docu-series, reality, lifestyle, travel, newsmagazine and talk shows. Some of her favorites were “The World’s Best” on Travel Channel, “Truth” on MTV, the “Leeza” and “Vibe” talk shows, “Girls Behaving Badly” for Oxygen where she produced segments for Chelsea Handler, and “Channel One News”.

In 2005 Tanya decided to return to her news roots and moved to Palm Springs, CA to work as a reporter and fill-in anchor for the NBC affiliate, KMIR 6. Over the course of three years Tanya received two Emmy Award nominations for investigative stories.

Tanya established Amazonia Productions in 2008 and launched the syndicated lifestyle television show, “Spotlight On The Desert”. She was the Executive Producer and Host. She returned to Los Angeles in 2010 to produce popular shows like “The Millionaire Matchmaker” on Bravo, “Bring It” on Lifetime, and “For Peete’s Sake on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). In 2015 Tanya received a Daytime Emmy Award as Senior Producer for the OWN series “Home Made Simple” in the Outstanding Lifestyle Program category.

In 2018 Tanya returned to her news roots and is currently a Reporter and Multimedia Journalist for Spectrum News 1 in Los Angeles. In 2020 she was promoted to Anchor and Host of the network’s public affairs show “In Focus Socal.”