Tammy Dombeck Biography, Age, Husband, CBS 11, Twitter

Tammy Dombeck Biography

Tammy Dombeck is an American reporter, journalist and host based in Dallas, Texas. Outspoken and not afraid to speak her mind, she has never backed down from a challenge & has even stood up to a TV station, that she believed discriminated against her because of her age.

Tammy filed a lawsuit against CBS 11 for age discrimination. Although further details were not released, she has spoken up about how frustrated she was that the station kept passing her up for younger women who had little reporting or journalistic experience. She also thanked her husband for giving her the confidence to speak out against the injustice. She also loves to travel and try out new and exciting experiences. She believes that you are never too old to try out something new and fun.

Tammy Dombeck Age

As of 2019, she is around 46 years old.

Tammy Dombeck Family

We have no details regarding her parents and her siblings.

Tammy Dombeck Husband

On 16th December 2012, Tammy married Donnie Campbell who works for an Internet Radio Firm.
The couple tied the knot in Fort Worth, Dallas at the Ashton Hotel in front of friends and family members.
Her former colleague Rebecca Miller baked the couple’s weddings cakes. She ate the top of the cake on her first anniversary & shared the photo on her Facebook profile. When she is not working, she enjoys spending quality time with her husband as well as family and friends.

Tammy Dombeck Career

Dombeck has had quite an illustrious career, working on TV on networks such as CBS & NBC for well over a century.

She worked as a traffic reporter for the KXAS / CHANNEL 5 show, “Gridlock Buster” for a strong 12 years before going on to CBS 11 where she served first as a fill-in and then as a full-time traffic reporter.
Some of her other TV job involves as a host for the non-stop NBC news channel, a part-time host for the TV series D Magazine & “The Broadcast.” She was a host and spokesman for Cowtown’s “Cruisin for a Cure” show.
Tammy also worked as a news and traffic reporter for KLIF, KKDA, KZPS and KPLX on the radio.

Tammy decided to branch out and create her own web series called Greets, Eats and All That with Tammy Dombeck after CSB 11 passed her up for a future contract with the station. The show focused on showcasing different and unique businesses and restaurants in Dallas, Texas ‘ Forth Worth region.
In 2015, she also established her own production company to assist her to continue her career as a presenter and to support local companies looking for some much-needed promotion and advertising.

Outside of hosting and reporting, she has dabbled in documentaries and has appeared in features such as “Scandal Made Me Famous – The Tonya Harding Story” and “Murder Made Me Famous-The Preppy Killer”.

Tammy Dombeck CBS 11

The government is suing CBS Stations Group of Texas over allegations that its Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate refused to hire a longtime traffic reporter because of her age.

KTVT-TV (Channel 11) violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act when it refused to hire Tammy Dombeck, allegedly because of her age, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.

Lori Conrad, director of communications for Channel 11, said in an email Tuesday that “KTVT respectfully disagrees with the EEOC’s current assessment and looks forward to resolving this matter.”

Dombeck, 44, worked for Channel 11 as a “freelance, non-staff traffic reporter” beginning in February 2013.

After CBS 11’s morning full-time traffic reporter resigned, Dombeck told the station’s management of her interest in the position and applied for the job.

Dombeck did freelance fill-in work for Channel 11, and when the full-time traffic reporter left in October 2014, Dombeck’s morning responsibilities increased, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in 2015.

The job requirements listed for the position said that the “ideal candidate” would have a strong knowledge of the traffic in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and that applicants “must have at least 5 years professional broadcasting experience.”

Channel 11 went on to hire a 24-year-old Chelsey Davis who, according to the suit, didn’t have five years of professional broadcasting experience or any broadcast experience in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Before filling in at Channel 11, Dombeck worked for 12 years as a “Gridlock Buster” traffic reporter at KXAS-TV (NBC5).

Joel Clark, the EEOC’s senior trial attorney, said in an EEOC news release that Dombeck was “clearly qualified for the position of traffic reporter.”

“We are confident that the station’s ratings were favorable during the time that she filled in as the morning traffic reporter,” Clark said. “But the station clearly preferred a younger face and a less-qualified applicant based on unfounded stereotypes about female reporters in broadcast television.”

“All the girls they auditioned for this job were in their 20s,” Dombeck told the Star-Telegram via email. “I didn’t have a chance. Frustrating.”

Robert A. Canino, regional attorney for the Dallas district office of the EEOC, said this year is the 50th anniversary of the ADEA law and “while the law itself is getting ‘older,’” it still has its place.

“It remains very relevant and continues to make a positive difference in the workplace,” Canino said. “That’s often the same thing that could be said for older employees who can certainly contribute to the success of a business if they’re given the opportunity.”