Dirk Rowley Biography/Profile
Dirk Rowley is a skilled American journalist currently working at WANE-TV. He joined Channel 15 as an evening anchor in August 2018.
Dirk Rowley Age| Birthday
How old is Rowley? He is 57 years old as of 2024. Rowley was born on February 5, 1966, in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 5th of February every year.
Dirk Rowley Education
Rowley graduated from Eastbrook High School. He continued working his way through college at Taylor University, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in Broadcasting. For two years, he wrote a weekly column in the school newspaper.
Dirk Rowley Height|Weight
He stands on an average height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs around 70kgs.
Dirk Rowley Family
Rowley was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States, however, he has not revealed information regarding his family members. This information will be updated as soon as it is available. Notably, his family has attended Pathway Community Church since it began.
Dirk Rowley Wife|Married
Rowley is happily married to a Snider grad but he has not disclosed information about her. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Dirk Rowley Children| kids
He is blessed with three children and they are all graduates of Carroll. He has not disclosed more information about them. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Dirk Rowley Career
Rowley was a fill-in weatherman during some noon, weekend, or holiday newscasts for WANE 15 in the early 1990s. Before WANE 15, he hosted and produced a daily half-hour TV talk show, which featured leaders of government, business, and non-profit groups. In this capacity, he interviewed nearly 1% of the population of northeast Indiana.
Prior to venturing into a TV career, Rowley spent 30 years in radio, much of that hosting perennial favorite “Majic in the Morning with Dirk and Jeannette” on WAJI-FM. They both led the annual Riley Radiothon, raising roughly $1 million to help sick children. Often, he was the only male reporting daily from the annual Vera Bradley Outlet sale. “The stories were more colorful than the bags.” Rowley also used his radio show to help in the early development of Kate’s Kart children’s charity. On top of that, he has worked or lived in all four quadrants of the Summit City.
Moreover, Rowley started his broadcast career in Marion, IN. There, he worked full-time while attending Eastbrook High School. He continued working his way through college at Taylor University, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in Broadcasting. For two years, he wrote a weekly column in the school newspaper. Rowley moved to Fort Wayne in 1989, working at WQHK, WMEE, and WBTU. Also, he worked briefly in Las Vegas and South Bend before returning to Fort Wayne.
Rowley is happily married to a Snider grad. He is blessed with three children and they are all graduates of Carroll. Notably, his family has attended Pathway Community Church since it began. Rowley golfs poorly, reads constantly, and goes to restaurants like it is his job.
Dirk Rowley WANE-TV
In the United States, WANE-TV, also known as channel 15, is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. Channel 15’s studios and transmitters are located on West State Boulevard in the Tower Heights section of the city. The station first signed on the air on September 26, 1954, as WINT, originally broadcasting its signal from a transmitter in Auburn. It was the Fort Wayne area’s second television station and it was originally licensed to and had studios in, Waterloo, north of the city.
WANE announced LIN TV, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks had not been able to reach an agreement to renew carriage of WANE and other LIN-owned stations on the two cable providers due to a dispute over compensation for the stations’ carriage on September 15, 2008. On October 29, WANE-TV was restored to Time Warner Cable in Northwest Ohio. However, it did not reappear on Bright House Networks systems in Grant County, Indiana. Bright House viewers in Grant County now only have WTTV from Indianapolis as their CBS affiliate.
The station currently broadcasts 24 hours of locally produced newscasts each week; with 4 hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays. In addition, it produces the sports highlight program The Highlight Zone, which airs Friday nights at 11:10 p.m. Its weekend morning news runs for an hour starting at 8 a.m. on Sundays with an earlier start at 7 a.m. on Saturdays. WANE-TV does not air local newscasts in the weeknight 5:30 p.m. timeslot due to the syndicated program Inside Edition, unlike most CBS affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone.
Dirk Rowley Salary|Net Worth
Rowley has an estimated salary ranging between $70,000 – $125,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1 Million -$5 Million which he earns from his broadcasting career.
Dirk Rowley Social Media Platforms
He is active on all social media accounts and often posts on his platforms. He has over 1.2k followers on Twitter, 2.6k followers on Facebook, and 2.9 k followers on Instagram.
WANE-TV Colleagues
- Dirk Rowley
- Alyssa Ivanson
- Pat Hoffmann
- Emily Dwire
- Sierra Tufts
- Rex Smith
- Nicholas Ferreri
- Nathan Gidley
- Glenn Marini
- Josh Ayen
Frequently asked questions about Dirk Rowley
Who is Dirk Rowley?
Dirk Rowley is a skilled American journalist currently working at WANE-TV. He joined Channel 15 as an evening anchor in August 2018.
Is Dirk Rowley Married?
Rowley is happily married to a Snider grad but he has not disclosed information about her. This information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Where does Dirk Rowley Live?
Rowley lives with his family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the United States.