Gene Birk has worked at WBKO for a combined 19 years, the first 6 as Sports Director, the last 13 as News Anchor.
Gene graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-TV from Southern Illinois University in 1972. He has worked in radio in Beloit, Wisconsin and Crystal Lake, Illinois, and in television in Dubuque, Iowa, Mobile, Alabama, Amarillo, Texas and here.
Gene also appears in the DVD version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which filmed in Mobile when he worked there. He's also appeared in several area theater productions including The Lion in Winter, The Rainmaker, 1776, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Pirates of Penzance.
In May of 2007, Gene and his partner, Elizabeth Slattery, earned the only perfect score of three 10's in the inaugural edition of "Dancing with Bowling Green's Own." Two months later they married, and now they're expecting the birth of their daugher. Anything can happen when you dance the Tango!
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