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Anchor / Reporters
Four time Emmy Award Winner Kurtis Ming is CBS 13's Consumer Investigative Reporter. Since joining the team in 2003, he's held the position of general assignment reporter and weekend anchor before starting up the "Call Kurtis" program, which has helped viewers get back more than a million dollars since 2006.
Since arriving in Sacramento, he's covered everything from the gubernatorial campaign of a porn star, to the Scott Peterson murder trial. He's reported on natural disasters from an assignment in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina to a trip to the shores of Phuket, Thailand tracking progress following the Southeast Asia Tsunami. During his International travels, he reported from one of the last fronts of the Cold War; the DMZ, which divides North and South Korea.
Kurtis is a ten time regional Emmy nominee, and four time winner. He won an Emmy for uncovering a flaw in the DMV's database that caused Californians to wrongfully get ticketed. His reporting prompted the DMV to overhaul its database. He won another Emmy for his investigative work exposing the problem plagued doctor's diversion program run by the California State Medical Board. After uncovering how the drug and alcohol program has failed to protect the public for decades, the board voted to get rid of it. He won another Emmy for outstanding achievement in an educational segment for his reporting on the hidden dangers of paintball after the deaths of a local mother and a teen from Washington. His feature reporting garnered an Emmy Award for a story he told about a tiny town in Kansas giving away free land to lure new residents.
The South San Francisco native started his broadcast career in 1996 as a radio reporter and anchor in Boston. He worked behind the scenes for Dateline NBC, Los Angeles station KCOP, and KGO-TV in San Francisco, before landing his first on-air TV job at KRCR-TV in Redding, CA in 1999. He anchored, reported and even forecasted the weather there, for nearly three years. He then worked as a reporter and anchor for CBS station KTVN in Reno.
Kurtis has a degree in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College in Boston. When he's not covering the news, he enjoys traveling, white-water rafting, and mentoring young aspiring journalists.
