Along with Trisha, I am one of the three original reporters on the 10:00 p.m. news, which started in September of 1993. After three years of covering mostly courts, crime and cops, several attorneys talked me into leaving the news business to become a private investigator. I helped them and some of the best attorneys in the Greater Cincinnati Area with their trial litigation for almost 16 years. But now I'm thrilled to be back doing what I love the most, reporting the news.
Although I've lived in the Cincinnati area for nearly 20 years now, I started in the broadcasting business at the age of 14 when I got a part time disc-jockey gig at a small radio station outside of my hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida. Then while attending the same high school that Denzel Washington and the Allman Brothers went to I worked the graveyard shift at the large FM station in town, did the play-by-play for my own school's football games and in the summers was a lifeguard on Daytona Beach. In addition, I played baseball and was named All-Conference three years in a row.
After high school, I went to the University of Florida on a baseball scholarship and after getting injured, I was named as a Student Assistant Baseball Coach. We won the Southeastern Conference Championship and I was awarded a ring! Oh yea, I also graduated, making me a lifetime Gator- "Go Gators!". From there I went to the University of South Alabama and was a Graduate Assistant Coach where we won the Sun Belt Conference Championship and I got another ring.
I started out in television part time in Jacksonville, Florida then quickly moved to be the Weekend Sports Anchor at the Raycom station in Savannah, Georgia. From there I went to be the main Sports Anchor up the road at a station in Macon. Four years later, I was lucky enough to jump 130 market sizes to the nation's fourth largest market, Philadelphia. I covered the Phillies, Eagles, Sixers, Flyers and the nine NCAA colleges in our viewing area. I reported on the field prior to every Phillies home game, spent a month at their spring training site in Clearwater, Florida, reported on the Eagles coach's show, the Randall Cunningham Show, and covered one of my favorite people of all-time, Charles Barkley.
My three daughters are the most important people in my life. Jennifer just got married this past summer to Matthew Schaber and is a Respiratory Therapist at The Christ Hospital. Christy Culbreth is a junior at Western Kentucky University majoring in Psychology and is the President of the Kappa Delta Sorority and Caroline Culbreth is the Academic Excellence Chair in the sorority and is a freshman majoring in International Studies. They are both on practically full ride academic scholarships which makes them much smarter than me!
If you have anything that interests you or you want me to investigate please don't hesitate to contact me by email at dculbreth@Fox19.com, or via Facebook or https://twitter.com/#!/FOX19Dave. I'd love to hear from you!
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