Charlie Haldeman bio

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Name: Charlie Haldeman
Title: Anchor/Reporter
Email Address: charlie.haldeman@kxii.com

Charlie Haldeman anchors First News at Five and Nine, co-anchors First News at Six and Ten with Maureen Kane and serves as news director.

Charlie received a regional RTNDA/Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2006 for his feature piece on a fiddle player from Caddo, Oklahoma. In addition to the Murrow, Charlie and the KXII team have been recognized by the Texas and Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, Lone Star EMMA Awards, and the Society of Professional Journalists.

In addition to television, Charlie spends entirely too much time on the computer. He posts stories for KXII.com, he tweets (www.twitter.com/charliehaldeman), he facebooks, and he can't believe those words are actually used as verbs these days.

Prior to joining the First News team in January of 2006, Charlie was the 5 p.m. anchor for KBTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Bryan/College Station, Texas. He also served as the assignments editor, producer, and reporter during his time there. Charlie covered every kind of story including local & state politics. Covering the Texas Legislature was a learning experience for several memorable reasons. Once, Charlie tried to follow a bill as it advanced through the House of Representatives, only to get lost in the process and accidentally find Rep. Sam Rayburn's picture hanging in the Capitol basement. This was a picture taken when Mr. Rayburn still had hair.

Charlie also spent 10 years working in radio as an on-air personality and program director. He was recognized by the Texas Department of Public Safety for being the youngest credentialed member of the working media in 1991. The DPS staffers laughed about this accomplishment. Charlie laughed too but still includes this factoid in his biography to this day.

He grew up in De Kalb, Texas, and attended Texas A&M University, Blinn College, and Texarkana College. His family includes five generations of railroad men. His father, Charles, is a Union Pacific railroad engineer. Charlie's family also includes his mother. Joni is a municipal judge in the old hometown. Please don't name drop if you are caught speeding through the city. It will only make things worse when paying the fine.

Charlie lives in Sherman with his wife, 2 daughters, 2 sons, an old dog, several pieces of aging lawn equipment and a shop full of rusty tools he uses any weekend he's home. In his spare time, Charlie likes to go to the barbershop, wearing overalls in public, driving over dirt roads, meeting strange people, and writing about himself in the third person.

If you managed to read all of this bio and still want to send charlie a message, his email address is charlie.haldeman@kxii.com He's much better about email than he is about returning phone calls. We blame the static on the line. He blames it on forgetting his voicemail password.

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