Demetria Kalodimos

Demetria Kalodimos
Born	Morton Grove, Illinois, U.S.
Education	B.S. in music, Illinois Wesleyan University; M.S. in journalism, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Occupation	Television news anchor
Spouse(s)	Verlon Thompson

Demetria Kalodimos is an anchorperson for WSMV-TV, an NBC affiliate based in Nashville, Tennessee. She anchors the weeknight broadcasts at 6 and 10 p.m., and is the longest continuously-serving evening news anchor ever at WSMV.

Kalodimos grew up in Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. She earned her bachelor's degree in music education from Illinois Wesleyan University, where she lived in Dodds Hall, in 1981. She later earned a master of science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In the early 1990s Kalodimos was part of a lawsuit involving a contractor she hired to build a home. The contractor eventually filed for bankruptcy. In the late 1990s she went through a well-publicized divorce and faced sensational allegations regarding her behavior.

Kalodimos started her journalism career at WICD in Champaign, Illinois. She joined WSMV in Nashville in 1984. In 2000, she started Genuine Human Productions, a documentary film company focusing on people. Her first feature-length documentary was Pre-Madonna, a film about 1970s Nashville. The film won an award of excellence at the 2004 Berkeley Video and Film Festival.

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