Ross has been in the news business for over 30 years with more than fifteen years of his career spent in Los Angeles. From the San Fernando and Northridge earthquakes, to the L.A riots, the Malibu fires, and the O.J. Simpson trial, Ross Becker has covered recent history's biggest news stories. He has fourteen Emmy nominations and four Emmy awards proving he knows how to find and bring you the story.

Ross began his career in broadcasting in 1975 as a reporter at WRFV-TV in Green Bay Wisconsin.

After two years honing his skills he moved on to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis where he soon got a chance to try his hand at anchoring as well as reporting.

In 1980 Ross made the move to Los Angeles and KCBS-TV as a Reporter and Weekend Anchor. In the ten years Ross was at KCBS-TV he had more than 10 Emmy Award nominations. He received 3 Emmys for coverage of the Cerritos plane crash, Southern California windstorms and coverage of the 1986 San Fernando earthquake. He also received 6 Golden Mike Awards and the AP Mark Twain Award for news writing. On top of all that, he spent two of those years heading up the KCBS Investigative Team and served two years as President of the Radio/TV News Association of Southern California.

Ross moved on to KCOP-TV, Los Angeles in 1990 taking on the duties of primary anchor for the station's daily TV newscast. There, he again rose to award winning status, receiving an Emmy Award for "live" coverage of the Reginald Denny beating which preceded the 1993 L.A. riots and was nominated for another Emmy Award for "live" on-scene coverage of the Malibu fire.

In January of 1996 Ross Becker conducted an exclusive interview with O.J. Simpson. It was the first, videotaped, interview with O.J. following his acquittal on murder charges.

Finally, Ross decided to take a break from the fast pace of daily news gathering, turning his attentions to another side of the broadcast industry. As owner and operator of Basix Communications, L.L.C he took over the day to day operations of his 3 radio stations in Elizabethtown, KY.

Becker jumped back into the broadcast news business when he accepted a position as weekend anchor on MSNBC and soon after he came to Las Vegas as primary anchor for KTNV ABC 13.

Currently Becker is an anchor/reporter for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles. He is working on developing a new type of daytime newscast. He is working with award winning producer Michael Horowicz.

Ross has a B.S. Degree in Broadcasting/Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.
He graduated from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, FL., and has been a member of the Society of Professional Journalists since 1973.
Ross taught classes in TV/Radio reporting at UCLA in 1985 and 1986.
He was born and raised in Wisconsin.

Complete list of Professional Awards and honors

4 Emmys- Academy of Television and Radio Artists Los Angeles

1. 1986 News Reporting Mid Air Collision over Cerritos
   
2. 1987 Live Coverage Earthquake
   
3. 1989 Live Coverage Wind Storms
4. 1992 Live Coverage Beating of Reginald Denny/L.A. Riots
   

1. Investigative Reporting Air Travel/Safety
   
2. Investigative Reporting White Power Underground/Aryan Nation
   
3. Investigative Reporting Franchise Scam
   
4. Investigative Reporting Making the Grade/private school grading scams
   
5. Serious News Feature Reporting Diary of Hope/Cancer survivor daily diary
   
6. News Reporting Gang Roots/birth of an L.A. street gang
   
7. News Reporting The Cerritos Disaster/midair plane crash
   
8. News Reporting Drug Emergency
   
9. Live Coverage Earthquake
   
10. Live Coverage Wind Storms
    
11. Live Coverage Beating of Reginald Denny/L.A. Riots
    
12. Live Coverage Cerritos Disaster/Midair crash