Frank Mottek is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years of experience in radio and television news. Frank currently anchors the business reports on KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO and, weekdays at 1 p.m., he hosts the KNX Business Hour, the number one source for business and consumer news in Southern California.

Frank began his news career in high school at the age of 16 at a top-rated FM station in Miami where he was promoted to News Director and morning news personality at the age of 18.  He then joined the all-news CBS radio affiliate in Miami where he was morning news anchor, reporter and news/talk host for 11 years. 

During that time, he provided the live descriptions of all space shuttle launches for the CBS Radio Network from 1985 through 1991 and he was an eyewitness to the 1986 Challenger disaster at the Kennedy Space Center.
In addition to anchoring the news and reporting for KNX, from 1993 through 1999 he served as a spot reporter for KCBS Channel 2. Since 1999, Frank Mottek has worked as a reporter and business news anchor on the KTLA Channel 5 News @ 10 and the KTLA Morning News where he currently provides the business reports.

Frank is also an instructor at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC teaching a class he created titled "Newsradio."

On national television, starting at the age of 26, Frank was a substitute stock market anchor and correspondent on "The Nightly Business Report" on PBS from 1989 through 1991. His TV experience also includes anchoring and reporting on WTVJ in Miami where he was part of the station's Peabody-award winning TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Frank has won numerous awards from the AP, UPI, RTNDA, Florida Medical Association, L.A. Press Club and the Radio-TV News Association of Southern California including two Golden Mikes, one for radio and one for television reporting in Los Angeles. He served as President of the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters in 1988 and 1989.

These days, Frank is frequently called to MC and moderate business discussions for groups including the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, California State Forum, The Milken Institute, The Los Angeles Consular Corp, and the Long Beach Unified School District.

The charitable organizations he is associated with include the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research in Beverly Hills and he serves on its Executive Board.