Gene Birk Bio

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Name: Gene Birk
Title: WBKO-TV Anchor/Managing Editor
Broadcast Times: 5, 6, & 10 p.m.
Email Address: gene.birk@wbko.com

Gene Birk has worked at WBKO-TV for a combined 22 years; the first six as Sports Director, the last 16 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.

In May of 2007, Gene and his dance partner, Elizabeth Slattery, earned the only perfect score of three 10's in the inaugural edition of Dancing with Bowling Green's Own, a fundraiser for the Make a Wish Foundation. Two months later they got married, and on July 3, 2008 their daughter, Abigail Caroline, was born. Anything can happen when you dance the tango!

Gene was a Theater Minor in college, and appears in the DVD version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was filmed in Mobile when he worked there. He has also appeared in several area amateur theater productions, including The Lion in Winter, The Rainmaker, 1776, Annie Get Your Gun, and The Pirates of Penzance.

He also loves playing golf, softball, and football, going horseback riding, playing with his daughter, and trying to sing.

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