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Dave Game
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Dave Game is a veteran journalist with 35 years experience in television, radio, and newmedia who currently manages South Florida internet operations for CBS, a position in which he has helped grow CBS South Florida internet properties by over 3000 percent.
Game started in radio in 1974 by supervising the construction and FCC licensing process of a radio station for his college, at age 18. After leaving college he spent a few years in commercial radio, first as a personality and later as News Director.
In 1976, he moved to television as a reporter and later as anchor in Elmira, New York, Huntsville, Alabama, Nashville and Detroit. In 1985, he moved to WCIX (now WFOR) in Miami, where he served as an award-winning general assignment reporter, investigative reporter, and Emmy-award-winning investigative producer before making the move to newmedia in 1995.
Game helped create WFOR's website, one of the first broadcast websites in South Florida, and managed it as part of his duties as Senior producer of Special Projects. In 2005, he moved to newmedia full-time, as Executive Producer for Digital Media for CBS stations in South Florida. He supervises a staff of 8 which provides updated news and information virtually around the clock 7 days a week for cbs4.com, one of the most highly ranked broadcast websites in South Florida.
Game holds numerous professional awards, among them two Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards, including one for newmedia, 13 Emmy nominations, Florida Associated Press awards for Best Large Market reporter and Best Election Coverage (producer), and an Investigative Reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists, He contributed to three Edward R. Murrow awards for overall excellence in television news, 2 Murrow awards for best newscast and one for spot news coverage. in 2009, the cbs4.com website he manages received an Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in internet journalism. In 2001, he was honored with the Silver Circle by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Suncoast Chapter for 25 years of service to Television.
Game has served since 2002 on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Suncoast Chapter, which represents television professionals from Louisiana to Puerto Rico, and in 2008 was elected President of the chapter.
Game is a founding board member of Journalists in Transition, an organization formed to help journalists in a changing media landscape find new professional opportunities.
An avid computer enthusiast, Game served 5 times as President of the Gold Coast Macintosh user group in Miami, and has his own part-time computer consulting business.
Game and his wife, Mary Ann, have been married for 34 years, and are tolerated by one old Labrador retriever named Darth who graciously lets them live in his South Miami-Dade home so long as they love him unconditionally and let him occasionally eat people food.
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