Amyre Makupson, Date of Birth
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American television personality
Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1947
Profession: television personality
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Amyre Makupson
- Amyre Makupson ( ?-MEER MAY-k?p-s?n; née Porter; born September 30, 1947 in River Rouge, Michigan) is a former news anchor and director of public affairs at WKBD in Detroit.
- Makupson held positions at WSM-TV in Nashville and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before moving back to Detroit in 1975 to work as director of public relations for Head Start, the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization.
- That same year, Makupson was hired by WGPR-TV, the nation's first African-American owned television station, to anchor Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show Porterhouse.[1] In 1977, Makupson joined WKBD as news anchor and public affairs director.
- At WKBD, she hosted Morning Break, the station's daily talk show, and produced and anchored a five-minute newsbreak called TV50 News Scene.
- In 1985, Makupson co-anchored WKBD's Ten O'Clock News and later anchored Eyewitness News at 11 on WKBD's sister station, WWJ-TV.[2] Her parents, Dr.
- Rudolph Hannibal and Amyre Ann Porche Porter, sent her to Detroit's Visitation Catholic Elementary School and she graduated from St.
- Mary's Academy High School in Monroe, Michigan, in 1965.
- She earned her B.A.
- degree in dramatics and speech from Fisk University in 1970 and her M.A.
- degree in speech arts/communications theory from American University in 1972. In November 2003, she acted in a local play in Detroit [3] and wrote a book about death, So...
- What's Next?.[4] She was nominated for an Exemplary Volunteer Service Award by Michigan Gov.
- Jennifer Granholm in 2007.[5] Though she is now retired from television news, her daughter (also named Amyre Makupson) is currently a primary news anchor at WGXA in Macon, GA.
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