Life and education Kalodimos grew up in
Morton Grove, Illinois, a suburb of
Chicago. In the late 1990s she went through a well-publicized divorce and faced sensational allegations regarding her behavior.
Career Kalodimos started her journalism career at
WICD in
Champaign, Illinois. She joined WSMV in Nashville in 1984. Her first feature-length documentary was
Pre-Madonna, a film about 1970s Nashville. The film won an award of excellence at the 2004 Berkeley Video and Film Festival. Kalodimos's contract with WSMV expired on December 31, 2017, and was not renewed. She was the longest continuously serving evening news anchor ever at WSMV. In October 2022, Kalodimos and fellow journalist Steve Cavendish resurrected the
Nashville Banner as an online-based news journal. They partnered with
WTVF (
NewsChannel5), the
CBS affiliate in Nashville, to share their content on air. ==Honors and awards==