Mike Solarte is a sports journalist working at Spectrum News NY1. He is a passionate sports reporter with a lot of experience reaching out to viewers. ^[3]

He is a Chicago native who relocated down south to become an original member of the Spectrum News Charlotte team in 2002. As a Charlotte sports reporter, Mike considers one of the greatest parts of his job to be the ability to tell the stories of some of the greatest athletes in the world. ^[1]

Mike is an Associated Press Award winner with triumphant sports stories under his belt, however, one of Mike's most memorable stories was his coverage of a University of North Carolina School of the Arts football game when a referee suffered a sudden heart attack. When Mike isn’t covering the latest sports report, he is attending to his three kids and three dogs, or taking some time off with a round of golf.^[2]