Who is Ted Rowlands?
Ted Rowlands is an American journalist working at Court TV as a reporter and anchor. He has previously worked at CNN and ABC News as a legal correspondent, where he covered some of the most popular trials. He has reported on trials involving prominent figures such as O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson, Jodi Arias, Scott Peterson, Robert Blake, and Phil Spector.
Rowlands was honored with the News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Long Form Live Coverage of a Current News Story.
Age
Rowlands is 57 years old. He was born on September 27, 1966, in the United States.
Height
Ted stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches.
Ted Rowlands Wife
Rowlands has been married to his wife is married to Erica Sanson for more than a decade.
Salary
Rowlands earns an annual salary of between $200, 000 and $300, 000. He works as an anchor, reporter, and producer at Court TV.
Ted on Court TV
Rowlands graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He spent more than 20 years as a correspondent for CNN and ABC News, where he reported on some of history’s most renowned cases, before joining Court TV. He was working as a general assignment correspondent for CNN/U.S.
Among the notable stories he covered for the network were the jury trial and arraignment of the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, the recall election for governor of Wisconsin, and the fatal shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
Rowlands participated in CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its consequences since joining the network in March 2004 as well as Peabody Award-winning coverage of the historic presidential election in 2008.
He was CNN’s lead reporter on the trials of Scott Peterson, Phil Spector, and Michael Jackson. His in-depth coverage of Jackson includes covering the star’s death, giving the most recent updates on the homicide investigation, and doing a rare live visit to Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.
Before working for CNN, Rowlands was a reporter for KTVU-TV in San Francisco, where he covered the Laci Peterson case as the station’s lead reporter and was one of only a select few reporters to get an interview with Scott Peterson.
He worked as a reporter for KNTV in San Francisco before joining KTVU-TV, where he exclusively reported Cary Stayner’s confession in 1999.
Stayner had been charged with killing two female visitors and a park ranger in Yosemite National Park. Rowlands also reported on the trial and case of the San Francisco dog mauling in 2000.
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