Ilia Calderón

Who is Ilia Calderón?

Ilia Calderón Chamat is a colombian journalist, born 1972 in Chocó. Calderón currently works as the late night news anchor for Univision's national late evening newscast along with Enrique_Acevedo.

She majored in Social Work at Universidad de Antioquia. She presented several news shows, first on regional channel Teleantioquia. In 1998 she went to national television for Noticiero CM&. Three years later, she went to Telemundo, where she hosted the Noticiero Telemundo weekend edition and a segment at the now defunct morning show Cada Día con María Antonieta.

In 2005 she underwent a successful operation to remove a tumour in her uterus.

In March 2007 she left Telemundo to host Univision Primer Impacto's weekend edition. In 2009 Primer Impacto's Host Fernando del Rincon was fired and Ilia became a regular co-host on the Monday-Friday edition with Barbara Bermudo leaving the weekend edition to Satcha Pretto.

In 2010 while still co-anchoring Primer Impacto she became the co-anchor of week day edition Univision's late evening newscast "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna" airing at 11:30pm.

On June 3, 2011 it was announced that Pamela Silva Conde would be joining Primer Impacto, replacing Ilia Calderón who will stay on "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna".