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Katherine Amenta Age, Married, Engaged, Bio, Wiki, Family, WPXI

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Name Katherine Amenta

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB June 3, 1982. As of 2023, she is around 41 years old.

Wedding / Husband / Dating / Marriage / Spouse Check the full bio for relationship details.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Katherine Amenta is the co-anchor of Pittsburgh’s top-rated morning news show, The Channel 11 Morning News on WPXI.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Amenta was born in Philadelphia.
  • Her grandmother, celebrated her birthday on St. Patrick’s Day, while her grandfather served as an army doctor, caring for troops in Germany post-World War II. Katherine also has a brother named Peter Amenta.
  • She now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and believes it’s the perfect city for her. She is a big fan of the sports team Pittsburgh Pirates, and feels lucky to have many family and friends nearby.
  • She comes from a large family of Italian heritage, and has a sibling named Peter Amenta. She became an aunt in 2014, and often shares photos of her nephew on social media, being very fond of him.
  • In 2015 her father joined WXPI Snow Patrol in Boston, to her excitement.
  • She is good friends with her colleagues.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • Katherine grew up in West Windsor, New Jersey, and spent her summers by the shore in Ocean City.
  • She studied in WWP High School in New Jersey.
  • She graduated from Villanova University (2000-2004) with a B.A. in Communication & Journalism.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

  • Katherine started her TV career as an associate producer at Comcast Sports Net in Philadelphia, and was also as an anchor/reporter at WMDT in Salisbury, MD
  • Before joining WPXI, she was a morning news anchor at News Channel 8 in Washington D.C.
  • In April 2016, the Channel 11 Morning News earned the highest ratings of any morning news in the country.

Awards and Recognition :

  • Katherine’s enterprising & investigative reporting received numerous Pennsylvania Emmy nominations.
  • She is a frequent winner of Maryland Associated Press awards.
  • In 2015, she and her morning team won the Mid-Atlantic Emmy, Spot News Coverage award for their coverage of the Franklin Regional High School stabbings.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • Katherine enjoys watching movies, works out, and loves to spend time with her family.
  • She worked as a Mickey Mouse on the Ocean City Boardwalk for three seasons!
  • Amenta is one of the youngest people in the WPXI studio.
  • Once, she and Brittny McGraw showed up at work on Friday morning in the same dress. Both made light of the fashion faux pas on their Facebook pages. “#ThankGoodness4Blazers,” Amenta joked in her post. McGraw put on a cream-colored blazer to camouflage the “twinsies” moment. Amenta humorously pointed out that the dress was at least three years old!

4 thoughts on “Katherine Amenta Age, Married, Engaged, Bio, Wiki, Family, WPXI”

  1. I enjoy when You are on the news. You are a beautiful woman and funny too. Good morning and have a fantastic day.

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