Adam Winkler Bio, Wiki
Adam Winkler is an American Anchor, Reporter, and Director working with ABC 13 News in Houston Texas where he serves the station as an Evening Sports & News anchor & reporter. He has been working with the station since July 2021.
Adam Winkler Age and Family
Winkler who seems to be in his 40s, was born in Houston, Texas, United States. However, he hasn’t shared details about his birth date, month, and year, as well as his parents.
Adam Winkler Heights
He stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 8 inches.
Adam Winkler Education
Winkler attended Klein High School where he later joined the University. He is a proud graduate of Southwestern University located in Georgetown, Texas. There, he was helping the Pirates baseball team reach the conference title game four straight years and twice advancing to the NCAA Division III championship.
Adam Winkler Work Experience
Winkler works with the ABC13 News team where he serves the station as a Sports Anchor/Reporter. Winkler joined the station in a multifaceted role in his hometown station. He does reports for both the news and sports throughout the week.
Prior to joining ABC13 News, he was working as a Sports Director and a weekend Morning News co-anchor for WTKR-TV, a CBS affiliate station located in Norfolk/Virginia Beach. In his half-decade working in Virginia’s largest media market, he led the relaunch of WTKR’s sports department. This is in addition to helping the team transform into an award-winning operation.
Prior to leaving the Texas area for Virginia in the year 2016, he was working for the KEYE-TV located in Austin and the KWTX-TV team located in Waco. He kick-started his career working with the KNOE-TV team located in Monroe, Louisiana, in the year 2004. The year 2015 saw him win the Lone Star Emmy Award for On-Camera Talent for his role as a Sports Anchor and is one of 10 career Emmy nominations for Adam. He has also been honored with 19 Associated Press Broadcasters awards in Virginia, Texas, and Louisiana.
In his entire career, his award-winning coverage has featured everything from the College World Series to competitive tree climbs, and everything in between. Additionally, he has also reported on Super Bowls XLVII, LI, LII, LIII, and LIV, multiple Final Fours. This is in addition to reporting on the longest basketball game in Big 12 history.
His memorable assignments however are not only limited to sports. He has also reported live from West Texas where he was reporting on the morning of April 18th, 2013 after the town’s deadly fertilizer plant explosion. This is, in addition, to extensively covering Hurricane Katrina in the year 2005. Additionally, he has also recently assisted the WTKR’s live coverage of the Virginia Beach mass shooting in May 2019.
Adam Winkler’s Net Worth
In Winkler’s career as an Anchor, Reporter, and Director, he has been able to accumulate a net worth ranging between $1 Million and $3 Million.
Adam Winkler Salary
He receives annual earnings that range between $35,000 and $100,000.
Adam Winkler’s Wife and kids
He is married to his wife, Jess Winkler. Jess happens to be the president of his fan club. The couple is blessed with two children, a daughter named Quinn who was born in 2020, and a son named Conor who was born in 2018. His children are both natives of Virginia but were born on Texas soil. He even goes ahead to joke that his babies had a jar of Texas dirt underneath their Norfolk, Virginia hospital beds during their delivery.
Winkler goes ahead joking stating that his jar featured infield dirt from Minute Maid Park that Adam scooped up while reporting from the 2019 World Series. He posts photos of his children on his Instagram account frequently and posted a photo of them over the Easter Holidays wishing everybody a Happy Easter on the 18th of April 2022.
Adam Winkler Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
He is vocal on his social media accounts where he posts frequently. On his Twitter account, he has about 4,310 followers, around 1,700 followers on his Facebook page, and 1,490 followers on his Instagram account.