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Detroit television news anchor, Amyre Ann Porter Makupson was born on September 30, 1947 in River Rouge, Michigan to Dr. Rudolph Hannibal and Amyre Ann Porche.
Amyre Makupson née Porter; born September 30, 1947) is an American former news anchor and director of public affairs at WKBD in Detroit.

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Encyclopedia Of Detroit

Award-winning broadcaster Amyre Makupson is perhaps best known for anchoring WKBD-TV’s (Channel 50) signature 10 p.m. newscast from 1985 through its finale in 2002.

Makupson, née Porter, was born on September 30, 1947 in River Rouge, Michigan and raised in metro Detroit. She attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where she received her bachelor's degree in dramatics and speech in 1970 and went on to earn her master’s degree in speech arts and communications theory from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1972. She held television positions in those cities before moving back to Detroit in 1975 to work as director of public relations for a local health agency, as well as anchor at the United States’ first Black owned and operated news network, WGPR-TV.

Makupson signed on at WKBD-TV in 1977 as the station’s news and public affairs manager and remained there for the next 25 years. Her early on-air positions included hosting Morning Break, a live, 30-minute daily news and interview program, as well as doing five minute “newsbreaks.” In 19

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Amyre Makupson

American television personality

Amyre Makupson (ə-MEERMAY-kəp-sən), (née Porter; born September 30, 1947) is an American former news anchor and director of public affairs at WKBD in Detroit.

Career

Makupson held positions at WSM-TV in Nashville and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before moving back to Detroit in 1975 to work as director of public relations for Head Start, the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization. That same year, Makupson was hired by WGPR-TV, the nation's first African-American owned television station, to anchor Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show Porterhouse.^[1]

In 1977, Makupson joined WKBD as news anchor and public affairs director. At WKBD, she hosted Morning Break, the station's daily talk show, and produced and anchored a five-minute newsbreak called TV50 News Scene. In 1985, Makupson was appointed co-anchor of WKBD's newly-launched Ten O'Clock News; beginning in 2001, she also began to anchor 62 CBS Eyewitness News at 11 on WKBD's sister station, WWJ-TV (ironically, the former WGPR

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Alumna Amyre Makupson follows in mom's career path

DETROIT – Sons named after their fathers has been commonplace for centuries. But daughters named after their mothers? Well, not so much.

CBS News Detroit anchor and reporter Amyre Makupson, M.A. ’06, is well aware of the confusion her matrilineal name typically causes throughout Southeast Michigan.

Her mother – also Amyre Makupson – is a revered television legend in metro Detroit, best known for anchoring WKBD-TV’s signature late local newscast from 1985 through its finale in 2002. Before then, she was a trailblazer, leading WGPR-TV62’s first news broadcast as a member of Detroit’s first all-women anchor team on the nation's first Black-owned station in 1975.

“Having the same name makes it difficult because you never really get an opportunity to be you,” said Makupson, who jokingly calls herself Amyre 2.0.

So, it’s easy to think the 41-year-old Makupson would have shied away from local TV news, right?

Wrong.

Despite the obvious perplexity that her