After a decade in Los Angeles in the 1990's modeling, acting(commercials/films), producing, Gary Metivier found himself at night school at UCLA pursuing television news.

Gary spent the next 25 years anchoring newscasts in LA (West Side News), Oklahoma/ Texas (KTEN NBC), Reno (KRNV NBC) before finding a more permanent home for the next 20 years as main anchor of three newscasts a day in Davenport/Moline (KWQC NBC) (a couple of hours from Chicago). Gary earned 3 Emmys (Mid-America region), 12 Emmy Nominations, 3 Edward R. Murrow awards (regional) and dozens of state and regional awards for writing, hosting and producing. He was inducted into the Emmy Silver Circle (aka Emmy Hall of Fame) in 2019. Among his highlights-Gary dedicated an Emmy to his mom (mother of 12) . See her story here https://youtu.be/7d-TO68FPcA

Following his life passion to return to film/theater/TV (non-news), Gary signed-off after a 20 year run and started his own production company-Metivier Media. Along with his web-based limited series, books, YouTube award-winning stories and podcast, Gary is also following his dream to act in and produce inspirational films.

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