{{short description|American television broadcaster (born 1951)}} {{Infobox Playboy Playmate <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox Playboy Playmate/doc --> | name = Kristine Hanson | image = | imagesize = 150px | caption = | issue = September 1974 | birth_name = | birth_place = Illinois, United States | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|9|23|mf=y}} | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{height|ft=5|in=5.5}} | preceded = Jeane Manson | succeeded = Ester Cordet | website = }}
'''Kristine Hanson''' (born September 23, 1951, in Illinois) is an American television broadcaster who also was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1974 issue.<ref>{{cite web | title=Playboy Playmate Pic and Data Sheet | work=Playboy Online | url=http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmates/directory/197409.html | access-date=June 6, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419072621/http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmates/directory/197409.html | archive-date=April 19, 2007 }}</ref> Her centerfold was photographed by David Chan.
She was previously the host of DIY Network's ''The Dirt on Gardening''.<ref>{{cite web|title=About The Dirt On Gardening |work=DIY Network |url=http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_ddog/0,2829,DIY_25039,00.html |access-date=June 6, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509062336/http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/shows_ddog/0%2C2829%2CDIY_25039%2C00.html |archive-date=May 9, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Hanson has been the weather presenter on KTXL and KCRA in Sacramento, California, on KTVU, KGO, and KRON in San Francisco, and KZST in Santa Rosa, California. She is currently a meteorologist on KOVR in Sacramento, California.
She won an Emmy Award and a first place award for American Women in Radio and Television.<ref Name=Kristine>{{cite web | title=Kristine Hanson | work=DIY Network | url=http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/press/article/0,2019,DIY_13703_4509349,00.html | access-date=June 6, 2007 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601053245/http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/press/article/0,2019,DIY_13703_4509349,00.html | archive-date=June 1, 2007 }}</ref>
She holds communication studies and theatre arts degrees from California State University, Sacramento and a degree in meteorology from San Francisco State University.<ref Name=Kristine/>
==See also== * List of people in Playboy 1970–1979
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== External links == *{{playmate|kristine-hanson|Kristine Hanson}}
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