Tinabeth Piña

Tinabeth's communications career started when she was a DJ at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and launched the first bilingual radio show in the Lehigh Valley featuring all styles of Latin music. She was also the station's International Music Director. (WJRH 104.9 FM) Her undergraduate thesis at Lafayette, addressing the lack of Latino representation on mainstream television, was so well received that it went on to become required reading at the University of Texas in Austin. After graduation, she went on to work for Time Warner, ABC, FOX and the WB where she won an Emmy for her contributions to VIVA!, a nationally syndicated program that showcases Latinos in entertainment. Tinabeth has also worked for one of the subsidiaries of Rainbow Media - * The Metro Channel - - as a writer, producer and on-air reporter. Tinabeth covered the entertainment beat where she had the opportunity to interview some of the biggest names in showbiz including Julia Roberts, Enrique Iglesias and George Clooney. Her work at the channel was recognized when she won the Crystal Award for excellence for on-air talent given by the Communicator Awards. After her gig at Metro, Tinabeth went on to produce Biography for A&E and continued writing for VIVA! as well as taking on reporting duties for that show. She subsequently went on to host Daily Remix on Oxygen. That program was the first television show to feature music from every genre, including everything from rock, classical and folk music to jazz, blues, rap and country. The half hour show was shot on location around the music world. While at Oxygen, Tinabeth also worked as a fill in co-host on Pure Oxygen, the channel's magazine style talk show and hosted various music specials for the channel as well. Since then she has hosted the Us Magazine report on ABC, has been a entertainment/features reporter for ABC news in New York and has been a guest journalist on The Maury Povich Show.