Stella Inger

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| caption = Stella Inger from the newsroom at WGUN, 2016

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| birth_place = Tashkent, Uzbek SSR

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| nationality = American

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| spouse = Gilbert Escobedo

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Stella Inger Escobedo is an American television news anchor and reporter who works at One America News Network.{{Cite web |title=Pardon Our Interruption |url=https://muckrack.com/stella-inger |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=muckrack.com}} She was formerly at [https://www.cbs8.com/article/about-us/team-bios/stella-escobedo/509-84907cc6-c319-4af5-8c09-5af97e760222 KFMB], the CBS affiliate in San Diego where she was the morning and afternoon anchor. Inger-Escobedo joined CBS 8 after a short stint at CBS Newspath in Los Angeles as a network correspondent. Previously she was the 5, 6, and 10 p.m anchor at the ABC television affiliate, KGUN, channel 9, in Tucson, Arizona. Inger-Escobedo was employed by the station in 2013, and retired from her position there on November 30, 2018. Previously, she was the morning anchor/reporter of "Good Morning Arizona" on KTVK in Phoenix. Inger was the leading morning anchor for KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, California, from 2008 to 2013.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-desert-sun-kpsp-news-anchor-moving-t/170937237/|date=February 17, 2012|page=B2|first=Brian|last=Indrelunas|title=KPSP news anchor moving to Phoenix|newspaper=The Desert Sun|location=Palm Springs, California|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=April 23, 2025}}

Early life

Inger-Escobedo was born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR (today in Uzbekistan).{{Cite web|last=Wilensky |first=Sheila |authorlink= |title= TV news anchor's family fled Russian oppression |publisher=Arizona Jewish Post|date=February 28, 2014 |url=https://azjewishpost.com/2014/tv-anchors-family-fled-russian-oppression/ |quote=She recalls her family’s newfound openness in America about being Jewish. “In Russia, you had to hide it. I was told that my grandfather had to sneak matzah. It was like buying it on the black market. We secretly celebrated [Passover] inside our homes. Both sets of my grandparents spoke Yiddish.”}} Her parents immigrated when she was six in 1989, first to Sioux City, Iowa, and then Southern California. She grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. In 2004, she graduated from the University of Southern California where she was a broadcast journalism major.

Career

Inger-Escobedo was the leading morning anchor for KPSP-LP (CBS-TV) in Palm Springs, California.{{Cite web

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| accessdate = 2016-03-25

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In September 2012 and September 2011 Inger co-hosted the Chabad Telethon along with CNN's Larry King and KTLA's Sam Rubin.

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| title = Behind the scenes with Stella Inger, hostess of Chabad Telethon and Palm Springs morning show (185)

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| date = 9 September 2012

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She also co-hosted the Chabad Telethon in 2009 alongside celebrities including Oscar award winner Jon Voight, actor Tom Arnold and NBA Star Jordan Farmar.{{Cite web

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| date = 17 September 2012

| accessdate = 2016-03-25

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In 2008 Inger was named by The Desert Sun as "The Best TV Personality in the Desert." In 2009 she won the same award for the second time.{{cite web |url=http://www.kgun9.com/about-us/staff/stella-inger |title=Stella Inger - Story |website=www.kgun9.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151112011018/http://www.kgun9.com/about-us/staff/stella-inger |archive-date=2015-11-12}}

In December 2008 Inger was featured alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal in an AOL Sports report.{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}}

Before reporting for KPSP-LP, Inger was a reporter for KXLF-TV in Bozeman, Montana and KESQ-TV in Palm Desert, California.{{Cite web

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