Mai Martinez

Mai Martinez (born December 16, 1973) is an American news anchor and reporter. She is the co-anchor of the morning news on WBBM (AM) Newsradio 780 AM and 105.9 FM, with Cisco Cotto. She is a reporter for the all-news radio station.

Mai Martinez
Born	(1973-12-16) December 16, 1973 (age 51) San Francisco, California
Education	Jacksonville State University
Occupation(s)	News Anchor, Reporter
Years active	2003-present
Employer(s)	WOXR K-98 WDSI-TV WBRC-TV WBBM-TV WBBM (AM) (April 4 2022-present)

Early life and education

A native of San Francisco, Martinez earned a bachelor's degree in 1997 from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.^[1][2] She is of half Cuban and half Vietnamese descent.^[1][3]

Professional career

Martinez began her broadcasting career as a video editor at WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, where she worked from 1997 until 2003. In 2000, she co-hosted a morning radio show on WOXR-FM in Oxford, Alabama.^[1] In 2003, Martinez became a photographer, general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WDSI-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She then rejoined WBRC-TV in April 2004 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. While there, Martinez developed a higher level of national visibility when she spent eight weeks in Aruba covering the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.^[1] In May 2006, Martinez was hired by WBBM-TV in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. On September 20, 2007, she was promoted to be a weekend news anchor at the station. Martinez was laid off on May 27, 2020.^[4] On March 28, 2022, WBBM (AM) announced that Martinez has been hired to co-anchor the morning news starting April 4, 2022, with Cisco Cotto from 6-9 AM, she will also report stories from the field for WBBM Newsradio.^[5]

Personal

She is single and lives in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's North Side.^[6]