Jaime Méndez

News Anchor-KUNS

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Biography

Jaime Méndez serves as an anchor/reporter for the newscast Noticias Noroeste on KUNS 51/Univision Seattle, a thirty minute news program on the first regional Spanish language newscast in the Pacific Northwest. He co-anchors a weekly Sounders FC highlight show and is the play by play announcer for selected Sounders FC games of the MLS. A popular personality among the Spanish-Speaking community in the Puget Sound area, he graduated with a BA in Communications and Political Sciences from The Evergreen State College. Méndez has been working in Spanish language media since 1993; his work includes mainly radio, TV and theatre. Méndez hosted Latinos Días, an all Spanish morning radio show, on the first 24/7 Spanish radio station in the in the Puget Sound area on Radio Sol 1360 AM and now hosts La Voz de Washington on KXPA 1540 AM. He is dynamic and professional with broad and deep connections with the local Hispanic community. Méndez was born in Bogotá, Colombia and has lived in the United States since 1987.