![]() Beamer left KENS-TV for KUSA-TV in Denver where he continued working as a reporter/photographer. He not only continued to shoot, write, and edit his own reports, but he also became an anchor for the station. ![]() Later, he would leave Iowa to work at KENS-TV in San Antonio. ![]() Then he returned to Drake, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism, a full-time job, and a love for TV news. Once out of high school, Beamer attended Drake, then left for the film school of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. While still in high school, he attended some college courses at Illinois State University. While still a senior, he landed a full-time job at NBC affiliateWHO-TV.īeamer was born and raised in Normal, Illinois. As a sophomore, he began as a reporter-photographer and voice of the late-night “sign-off” news at CBS affiliate KCCI-TV. And he especially enjoys bringing you stories of the fascinating people, places and history from all over this wide region.īeamer started in TV as a student at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was a National Merit Scholar. He’s reported live from the national political conventions, the space shuttle tragedy, the capture of the Texas 7 prison escapees in Colorado. In early 2005, he took his camera to Sri Lanka to bring you stories of the devastation of the tsunami and San Antonio’s 433rd Airlift Wing - helping in the relief effort. He’s reported for News 4 WOAI from all over the country and into Mexico and Central America on stories as diverse as the Hurricane in Honduras, to the Spurs playing for a title, to what drives people in the interior of Mexico to cross illegally into the U.S. And between anchoring, reporting, shooting and editing, he also enjoys volunteering his time as a popular speaker and emcee at dozens of community fundraisers. He still loves to grab a camera and shoot his own stories as much as possible. Randy Beamer is the award-winning weeknight 5, 6 & 10 pm co-anchor and a photojournalist for News 4 WOAI.
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