Dario Melendez is an Emmy award winning sports Journalist.

Before joining WISN, Dario was the Brewers and Bucks pre-and-post game host and reporter for Bally Sports Wisconsin. He has also been the weekend sports anchor at New York 1 and SportsCenter anchor at ESPN.

Melendez was also the weekend sports anchor and sports reporter at WISN-TV from 2010-2012, where he covered professional and college sports. Assignments included Super Bowl XLV, the 2011 NLDS and NLCS and the 2011 and 2012 Big Ten Championships.

Previously, Melendez was in Fort Myers, Fla., where he was weekend sports anchor and sports reporter responsible for shooting and editing daily stories for WINK-TV (2008-10) and served as talk show co-host for Fox Sports Radio. For WINK, assignments included Super Bowls XLIII and XLIV, the 2010 Pro Bowl, 2009 BCS Orange Bowl, 2009 BCS National Championship and the 2009 NBA Finals.

While at WISN-TV he was honored by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association for Best Sportscast for Larger Market (2011). He received the Associated Press Regional Award for Best Sports Feature "Sleeping with Enemy" while at WINK-TV (2010).