Anne Hudson

Anne Hudson was raised in The Woodlands, Texas and graduated with her bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas Tech University in 2000.

While at Texas Tech, Hudson was a Texas Tech Cheerleader, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, and a radio personality on KTXT-FM, while also completing internships at KCBD and The Avalanche Journal.

After graduation, Hudson started her media car­­eer in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she was a morning show co-host on 103.7 WPTQ-FM and a mid-day show host on 100.7 WKLX-FM. Hudson spent her weekends as a TV-Reporter on the ABC affiliate, WBKO.

Hudson has been with iHeartMedia Austin since August of 2001. She started out as a traffic reporter, eventually getting her own show on the legendary Top 40 Country Radio Station 101 KASE-FM in Austin.

Currently, Hudson is the morning show co-host on sister station 96.7 KISS- FM's popular morning show, “The Billy The Kidd Show,” and hosts middays on 101 KASE-FM.

Hudson is now one of iHeartMedia's top talents, and has hosted nationally-broadcast events such as the iHeart Country Festival in Austin, the Florida Georgia Line national album release party in New York, the iHeart Summer Pool Party in Miami, and the iHeart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas. She has also hosted multiple local events during SXSW, Austin City Limits Music Festival, and Rodeo Austin.

Outside of radio, Hudson is an award-winning television personality for nationally syndicated fashion segments airing on Time Warner Cable News, and is also an on-air host for LiveXLive. She has appeared nationally on Fox Sports Television and Fox7Austin as a celebrity commentator, and was also the host of two television shows on ME Television in Austin. Most recently, Hudson was named “On-Air Personality of the Year” in 2018 and in 2019 for the Alliance for Women In Media, an organization focused on supporting women across all media segments.

Hudson dedicates much of her time to philanthropy, hosting and raising awareness for such events as: Lifeworks Austin, The Birthday Party Project, March of Dimes, St Jude Children's Hospital, The ARC of the Capital Area, McLane Children's Scott and White Clinic, CureSearch for Children's Cancer, the Key to the Cure, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, and the Center for Child Protection.

Hudson and her husband Fred live in south Austin, and are proud parents of three boys, Hudson, Freddie, and Walsh, and their dog Chewy.

 

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