Maira Ansari Biography
Maira Ansari is an American Anchor working for WAVE serving as an anchor of WAVE News at 3 and co-anchor of WAVE News at 5, 5;30 and 6 p.m. She joined the station in February 2007 and has served the station for over a decade. Before joining the station in 2007, she worked for WICD NewsChannel 15 in Champaign, Illinois as a morning and midday anchor
Maira Ansari Age
Ansari likes to keep her personal life private hence she has not disclosed the date, month, or year in which she was born. However, she might be in her 40s judging from her appearance.
Maira Ansari Height
Ansari stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 6 inches.
Maira Ansari Family
Ansari grew up in a small town in southern Illinois but has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any details about her parents. It is also not known if Ansari has any siblings.
Maira Ansari Husband
Ansari is a married woman but has kept information regarding her husband away from the public. The couple has a son and daughter. She has visited over a dozen nations and speaks multiple different languages. She enjoys going to the great restaurants in Louisville and spending time with her husband and kids.
Maira Ansari Net Worth
Ansari has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an anchor.
Maira Ansari Salary
Ansari earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Maira Ansari WAVE
Ansari is working at WAVE alongside other famous WAVE meteorologists, anchors, and reporters including;
- Shannon Cogan
- Noelle Friel
- Dawne Gee
- Marresa Burke
- David Mattingly
- Kevin Harned
- Kendrick Haskins
- Ryan Hoke
Maira Ansari Education
Ansari joined Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in the school’s top-rated radio/TV program along with minors in Marketing and Speech Communications.
While in college, Ansari experienced what TV journalism was all about by serving her college newsroom and interning in Los Angeles at the entertainment news magazine show EXTRA. She traveled abroad to study TV in London, England. She then joined the University of Illinois at Springfield where she graduated with a Master’s degree in 2002.
Maira Ansari Career
Ansari is working for WAVE as an anchor of WAVE News at 3 and co-anchor of WAVE News at 5, 5;30 and 6 p.m. Before coming to Kentucky, she lived in Illinois where she spent her entire life.
Ansari worked for WICD NewsChannel 15 in Champaign, Illinois as a morning and midday anchor before moving to Louisville. She loves being involved in community service activities while spending time in east-central Illinois, to the point of competing in a corn-eating competition.
Ansari has worked with organizations like the American Diabetes Association and the Girl Scouts. Her TV career began in Springfield where she worked as the city beat reporter. Before that, she interned at the CBS affiliate in Springfield, WCIA.
Maira Ansari Suicide
On September 22, 2023, Ansari read a joke about suicide from the prompter while anchoring during National Suicide Prevention Month. At the time, she was trying to remind viewers of the suicide hotline number(988).
She read “Now, talking about it doesn’t always help, it doesn’t help. Suicide is always there as an option, but it’s never the right solution to the problem And if you hit your breaking point, instead of just taking your life, do something one step short of it. Quit your job and move to China to become, uh, a rice…”
On September 28, 2023, she addressed the issue via her Twitter account and said that she was unaware of what would be written in the prompter and that the producer had intentionally written it and made light of it.
Ansari apologized for the incident; stating that she was embarrassed, would never make a joke about suicide, and that she is passionate about mental health. She also expressed her distress that her co-worker had set up the whole ordeal.
Maira Ansari Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media account and often posts on her Twitter. She has over 5K followers on Twitter.