[1] There, she was a news presenter until being laid off when the station switched to FM format; however, at that time, KTVY (now KFOR-TV) was located in the same building, and she began working there instead.
[1] Shaw's first day at CNN was July 12, 1984; although she had not been scheduled to appear on-camera that day, the regular news presenter was temporarily unavailable, and Shaw was chosen to report the news that Walter Mondale had selected Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate for the 1984 presidential election.
[6] She subsequently joined Santa Clarita Valley local TV broadcasting with Time Warner Cable.
[2] Shaw was born in Austria, where her father was serving in the United States army, and raised in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
[2] She has twice been married: first to doctor Jim Hays,[3] and later to banker Mark Soroko who died suddenly in March 2010.