Shannon Cake

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“I didn’t win anything alone. We never do.”

Dave introduced Shannon Cake as the host of News Now on Newsmax 2, weekdays from 9 to 10, and by his count the winner of 23 Emmys plus an Edward R. Murrow Award. She credited the teams behind her, told how a childhood following her father’s service through Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong led her to consumer investigations, and shared how she fits a workout into a day that starts at 4:30. She first met Dave as a patient rehabbing a torn rotator cuff.

Background

• She was born at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and grew up in eight states and three foreign countries where her father was stationed with the Army.
• She earned degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Alabama.
• She began in radio at WUAL-FM in Tuscaloosa and the Alabama Radio Network in Mobile, then moved into television as a morning and midday anchor at WMBB in Panama City.
• In 1996 she joined WPTV in West Palm Beach as a consumer and investigative reporter, and later anchored the 5:30 p.m. news, the 10 p.m. news on WFLX and The NOW South Florida.
• She anchored her final WPTV broadcast in May 2025 after 29 years at the station.

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Episode 19

23 Emmys and a Torn Rotator Cuff

Shannon Cake

Newsmax anchor Shannon Cake on 23 Emmys, the advice that kept her in investigative reporting, and the torn rotator cuff that first brought her to First Rehab as a patient. Plus how she fits a workout into a day that starts at 4:30 AM.

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• ▶Play clip: Shannon Cake on Pain 2 Power: 23 Emmys and a torn rotator cuff

  Shannon Cake on Pain 2 Power: 23 Emmys and a torn rotator cuff

• ▶Play clip: Jennings, Cronkite and Walters: 22 Emmys. Shannon Cake: 23

  Jennings, Cronkite and Walters: 22 Emmys. Shannon Cake: 23

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