Pam giganti biography

Pam Giganti is a veteran newswoman and an Emmy Award winning journalist who has worked in the radio and television industry for the last 26 years.
Pam Giganti is a veteran newswoman and an Emmy Award winning journalist who has worked in the radio and television industry for the last 32 years.
Pam Giganti was a morning anchor and reporter at WTVJ from 2001 through 2015.

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Longtime South Florida broadcaster Pam Giganti has left the anchor chair.

The WTVJ-Ch. 6 morning anchor bid farewell during Friday’s newscast, amid well wishes from other broadcasters and her fans.

Giganti, 47, said she is retiring to spend more time with her husband and three daughters, ages 11, 15 and 18. The morning news schedule can be tough on home life, with her typically getting up at 2:15 a.m. to anchor weekdays beginning at 4:30 a.m.

“I am not going to miss the 2:15 wakeup at all,” said Giganti. “That is one of the reasons I retired. It’s been a long time. It’s been a difficult schedule … I’m looking forward to having more of a normal schedule and spending more time with my family.”

During Friday’s broadcast, an emotional Giganti told viewers, “Everybody out there who is watching, thank you so much … I am so honored that you get up and watch us because you have a choice … I am blessed and grateful.”

Succeeding Giganti will be Sheli Muniz, who joins the station from WKMG-Ch. 6, the

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Pam Giganti is a veteran newswoman and an Emmy Award winning journalist who has worked in the radio and television industry for the last 32 years. She is currently the host of the public affairs program Your South Florida on South Florida PBS and is the the host for the University of Miami Health System’s, Focusing on You segments. Giganti led the morning team at WTVJ NBC 6 as anchor of NBC 6 South Florida Today for nearly 15 years. She has also worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Communication.

In 2019, Giganti received an Emmy for the program, “Parkland: One Year Later” and in 2009 for her work on the health special, “Breast Cancer: Interactive.” Giganti has covered presidents and leaders, soldiers in wartime, and devoted countless hours to hurricane coverage and breaking news in South Florida over the past three decades. But perhaps one of her most memorable and unusual reports was the time she jumped out of an airplane and broadcast live for a radio show in a tandem skydive.

Giganti began her television