The latest Pickup Lines segment features beloved Emmy-winning news anchor Steve Spriester, who is wrapping up a 30-year career at KSAT this week.

Spriester was born and raised in Iowa and attended college in Nebraska, where he also began his broadcasting career in radio.

“The sports broadcaster there was doing play-by-play at one of our games, and I told him I was interested ... he said, ‘Come by the station,’” Spriester said. “So I went by the station and he had me do a demo tape and things like that. And he said to me, he said, ‘You could do radio,’ he said, ‘But TV is what you want to be doing. That’s where the money is.’ That’s what he said. He said, ‘That’s where money is,’” recalled Spriester before he ultimately made the move to TV news.

“It was one of those one-man band things,

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