Bonnie
Kaye is an
Emmy-Award winning producer,
television and radio journalist, certified fitness professional,
classical violinist, composer and recording artist, two-time Olympic
correspondent for CBS Sports Television & Radio, and the creator,
producer and host of “Inside Fitness”, the nationally
acclaimed CBS Television and Radio health and fitness news series that
combines Ms. Kaye’s unique backgrounds as both a fitness pro and
broadcast journalist. Bonnie is also a print journalist and
contributing editor for “Fitness Rx Magazine For Women”.
Bonnie was
also a Fitness Magazine contributor for three years, and was featured
in many
issues, including pictorials on surfing, snowboarding, and “best bun
blaster
moves." Bonnie has been a fitness spokesperson for “Kellogg’s
Special K
Red Berries”, recently headlining a twelve city nationwide tour for the
brand’s “Better You” campaign, giving high-energy exercise
demonstrations
and motivational speeches inspiring hundreds of thousands of people to
get fit.
Fitness
Biography:
Certified
by ACE, the American Council on Exercise, Kaye’s 15-year career as a
fitness
professional began in high school and became a lifelong passion
encompassing
personal training, aerobics and weight training instruction, nutrition
consultation, motivational speaking, running coaching, teaching
self-defense
for women, and fitness reporting.
RTNDA
Award (Radio & Television News Directors Association): “Best
Specialty
Reporting”
TELLY
Award, Best Sports Reporting
Voted
“Most Fit Media Personality” by City Sports Magazine in San Francisco
Broadcast
Biography: TV and Radio (Health & Fitness, Sports , News)
In
addition to CBS Network News reporting assignments, for the past seven
years Bonnie has produced and hosted “Inside Fitness”, the national
television
health and fitness news feature series distributed by CBS Affiliate
Relations
to its 200 CBS television affiliates. Kaye also writes and hosts
a daily “Inside Fitness” 60-second radio feature series for the CBS
Radio
News Network, the largest radio news network in the world with more
than
600 CBS Radio News stations nationwide.
A professional
radio and television reporter for the past twelve years, Bonnie’s
credits
include live and taped coverage as a sports reporter for CBS Sports
Television
and Radio at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan where she
interviewed moguls freestyle skier Johnny Mosely live during primetime
coverage immediately following his Gold Medal performance. Bonnie
reported
for CBS Sports and CBS News at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,
including
live from the scene of the Olympic Park bombing. Bonnie was also
live on the scene for CBS Radio Sports at Superbowl XXXI in New
Orleans.
She has
been a network health and fitness contributor for CBS News for
five years, including regular assignments on “CBS News
Saturday
Morning”, “The CBS Early Show,”, “CBS News “Up To The Minute”, and CBS
Newspath, the daily CBS News gathering service responsible for
providing
news coverage to all 200 CBS affiliates. Bonnie has also been a sports
reporter at KCNC, Denver, sports anchor at KNTV, San Jose, and sports
reporter
for the Pro Waterski Tour on the Pacific Sports Network.
An accomplished
classical violinist and composer of her own original style of
“Buddha-Bar” inspired music, Bonnie produces, records, and performs her
music worldwide, most recently in Ibiza, London, and New York. Bonnie
is a self-defense advocate and competitive duathlete (run-bike-run),
and holds a Bachelors Degree in Media and Psychology from California
State University at Hayward.