Frank Mottek is the voice of business news in Los Angeles. An award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years of experience, Frank currently anchors the business reports on CBS station KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO and, weekdays at 1 PM, he hosts the KNX Business Hour, the number one source for business and consumer news in Southern California.
On national television, starting at the age of 26, Frank was the substitute stock market anchor for Paul Kangas 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.
Since joining CBS in Los Angeles in 1992, he served as a spot reporter for KCBS Channel 2 for six years. For ten years,
he worked as a reporter and business news anchor on the KTLA Channel 5 News @ 10 and the Emmy-Award winning KTLA Morning News.
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 at the age of 18. He then joined the all-news CBS station 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.
He is frequently called to lead some of the highest profile business discussions including economic forecast events for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, California State Forum, The Milken Institute, UCLA Anderson School of Management, and the Association for Corporate Growth.
Frank is also an instructor at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC teaching the "Newsradio" class he created.
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.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research in Beverly Hills, The LA Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists, and the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California.
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