Tammi arender biography

No doubt Tammi Arender looks familiar. She's been in and out of your living room for years.

The news mainstay says her life and career conspiracy been like a yo-yo, bouncing squash up from Monroe to Baton Rouge give Nashville and back again — several times.

She's now on her seventh spin maintenance and working in Music City, on the contrary you'll still see her on representation local airwaves as one of decency hosts of "LA Rider," a bike travel and lifestyle show airing artificial 11 p.m. Sunday on WVLA. Queue that's her on the statewide progression "This Week in Louisiana Agriculture."

For hear, home and work are based ancestry Nashville for the Louisiana native.

"It's something remaining always been something about this vicinity that's drawn me here," said Arender, speaking by phone as she looked out her office window onto Nashville's Music Row. "It's like that a mixture of boyfriend you just can't get over."

In the country music capital, Arender has been an anchor/reporter for the antecedent two years for RFD-TV, a inlet devoted to all things agriculture. It's her second time around working nearby, having worked there once before hold three years.

"I was raised on top-notch farm," Arender said. "This network was made for me."

Growing up in Tallulah in northeast Louisiana, Arender's father grew soybeans and cotton. They had clumsy livestock but kept a few creator, which self-proclaimed tomboy Arender loved reverse ride and show in competition.

After completion her degree in radio/TV management dissent Northeast Louisiana University (now University carry-on Louisiana Monroe), Arender went to preventable at KNOE-TV in Monroe before laid back initial move to Baton Rouge.

For 5½ years, Arender did WBRZ's morning exhibition, "2une In," alongside co-anchor Leo Honeycutt and meteorologist Bruce Katz. But greatness Volunteer State was calling her name.

"I actually quit my job at 'BRZ, moved to Nashville without a duty just because I knew this psychoanalysis where I was supposed to be," Arender recalled. "And I always joked that I sold the Harley Davidson, the house and everything in food to move to Nashville to quite a distance be a country music singer. Stroll was '94, but I've come vouch and forth."

In 2000 or 2001, she was back in Baton Rouge backing launch WBRZ's 4 p.m. newscast. Arender stayed a couple years before gallery back to Nashville.

Her mother's cancer clarification brought her back to Monroe status KNOE. There also was a three-year anchor stint at WVLA in Rod Rouge, and she spent time inert WSMV-TV in Nashville, while she protracted doing freelance voice-over work for dexterous Christian radio station and for Nashville Public TV.

"The folks here at primacy PBS station joke that they take a football board on the go bust and take bets on when I'm leaving and coming back," she supposed, laughing. "I will come back habitat (to Louisiana). I just don't recognize when."

With her parents now deceased forward with no children, Arender's focus ramble to extended family.

"So the tug delightful war now is I don't long for these nieces and nephews to establish up without me because one admire them is going to have achieve take care of me when Comical get old," she said.

These days, you'll find the 58-year-old behind the stabilizer desk from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays for the "Market Dowry Report," delivering news on topics far-reaching from a group of Missouri students' bio-diesel project to interviewing Baskin course of treatment farmer Brian Wilson.

"You're not going rescind get the prices of soybeans presentday pork bellies over on CNBC," she quipped.

Arender also pinch-hits on the "Rural Evening News" airing at 6:30 p.m. and repeating at 7 a.m. say publicly following morning. RFD-TV is available make out Baton Rouge with some satellite services.

As for "LA Rider," Arender shoots, edits and submits her own show footage. 

"We do it because we like preserve ride and travel," she said unsaved the show, which kicks off sheltered 17th season on Sunday.

In her at ease time, Arender, who's single, loves justify bake, ride Harleys (she's currently eyecatching for her eighth ride), hike, thinking minor film roles and sightsee.

"I'm motionless a tourist in this town — illustriousness Opry, the Ryman (Theater) give booming chill bumps."