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'Todd M. Hansen' currently hosts and produces the Emmy Award winning The Story Trek airing across the United States on cable and satellite. Todd is the creator of the show. After winning multiple awards as a TV news reporter and anchor including Best Reporter from the Society of professional Journalists, Utah Broadcasters Association's top award in two categories, Several of the SPJ's highest awards for investigative news, comprehensive coverage, and single event coverage, Todd left TV news behind. Todd has won Emmy® Awards for his work in TV news and for hosting, writing and producing The Story Trek on BYUtv. Todd was born in Provo and grew up in Pleasant Grove, Utah. He served as a full-time missionionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then attended and graduated from Brigham Young University in Broadcast Communications Studies in 1993. Todd started his broadcast career as an anchor and reporter for CBS affiliate KEPR in the Tri-Cities area in Washington. He was then offered a job by Fox News in Salt Lake City and reported and anchored there for ten years. Todd left TV news and for the next five years he did consulting and freelance TV productions. When he heard BYUtv was looking for a new series, he suggested his idea, The Story Trek. The idea was a concept he created at KSTU Fox 13 called Trippin' with Todd. Trippin' morphed into The Story Trek and was accepted and now Todd hosts the series. The series consists of random door-to-door interviews of normal people revealing stories that otherwise would not be told. Hansen believes everyone has a story and that it's his job to find them. Each episode shows three to five stories, each of various length in the half hour long show. To determine where he will go for an episode, Todd often blindfolds someone and has them shoot a foam dart gun at a large map of the United State. Todd has currently won nine Emmy® awards for his work on The Story Trek.

References

http://history.cfac.byu.edu/index.php/Todd_M._Hansen

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865582697/Story-Trek-meets-people-on-their-own-turf.html?pg=all

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/north/highland/highland-man-telling-people-s-stories-in-the-story-trek/article_4c851529-30ea-5f48-af55-7385efa86365.html

http://www.mormonwiki.com/Todd_Hansen

http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/TV-show-films-episode-in-CSRA-219044821.html

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20150116/CURR/150118957

http://universe.byu.edu/2014/04/30/the-story-trek-real-reality-tv/

http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/panhandle-to-get-its-minutes-of-fame/article_cff9cff4-ea7a-11e2-91ff-0019bb2963f4.html

External links

http://www.byutv.org/TheStoryTrek

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1961031/

Category:TV

Category:Celebrity