Chuck Scarborough

Chuck Scarborough
Born	November 4, 1943 (1943-11-04) (age 68) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Television news anchor, narrator, author

Charles Bishop "Chuck" Scarborough III (born November 4, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. Since 1974 Scarborough has been the lead male news anchor at WNBC-TV, the New York City-based flagship station of the NBC Television Network, and has also appeared on NBC News. He currently co-anchors with Sue Simmons at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. on WNBC, and also hosts a solo 7:00 p.m. newscast, New York Nightly News on NBC New York Nonstop, ^[1]

Life and career

A native of Pittsburgh, and a graduate of the the University of Southern Mississippi, he served in the United States Air Force and currently has a commercial pilot certificate. His career in television began in Mississippi as a reporter at WLOX-TV in Biloxi and later WDAM-TV in Laurel, before moving to WAGA-TV in Atlanta.

Scarborough's first anchoring job came in 1972, at WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston. In his final commentary on WNAC-TV, he identified the issue of race as the most important challenge facing Boston. A scant few months later, Boston erupted into racial unrest as the result of a federal court order to end its policy of de facto racial segregation in the public schools.

Scarborough joined WNBC-TV in March 1974 as sole anchor of its then-new 5:00 PM newscast. Eventually, he became the station's lead anchor at 6:00 and 11:00, and is currently tied for the longest tenure among English-language anchor persons in New York television history (shared with Bill Beutel, who worked 37 years over two stints at WABC-TV). Scarborough's uninterrupted run behind the desk is second in New York television to WXTV's Rafael Pineda, who started with his station in 1972. For much of his first 20 years with NBC he occasionally appeared on NBC News and often anchored prime time news updates.

Scarborough has won 31 Emmy Awards, and was one of the first inductees into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2005. He was inducted alongside Sue Simmons, his co-anchoring partner since 1980. Scarborough and Simmons have been together longer than any other anchor team in New York City television history. At WNBC, Scarborough has worked alongside Marv Albert, Len Berman, Jack Cafferty, Dr. Frank Field, John Hambrick, Pat Harper, Pia Lindstrom, Michele Marsh, Al Roker, and Tom Snyder, among others.

Scarborough was the host of the syndicated programs Images - A Year in Review and Memories...Then and Now in the late 1980s-early 1990s, and also co-anchored the NBC network documentary series Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow with Maria Shriver and Mary Alice Williams.

He is married to Ellen Ward Scarborough, and was previously married to Anne Ford. He has two children: son Chad and daugher Elizabeth, who has followed in her father's footsteps as a television journalist.^[2][3]

Pop culture

In the 1994 movie The Paper, a flash of the nightly news shows Scarborough giving out a headline which is the focal point of the news report, the paper is reporting on. Also on How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Chuck Scarborough was briefly shown on a billboard, likely promoting the WNBC news team. He appeared in The Adjustment Bureau, reporting a story for WNBC on the film's protagonist, David Norris (Matt Damon), and in two episodes of the NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet.

Scarborough and Simmons are mentioned in the Fountains of Wayne song "Traffic & Weather" from their 2007 album of the same title.^[4]

Novels

Scarborough has written three novels:

• Stryker (1978), ISBN 0-02-606920-2.
• The Myrmidon Project (1980), ISBN 0-698-11054-4.
• Aftershock (1991), ISBN 0-517-58014-4.

Aftershock was made into a made for television movie, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York in 1999, airing on the CBS television network.

References

1. ^ http://www.nbcnewyork.com/station/about-us/Chuck_Scarborough.html
2. ^ "Chuck Scarborough". Cityfile. http://cityfile.com/profiles/chuck-scarborough. Retrieved 2010-11-02. 
3. ^ "TV anchor Chuck Scarborough's daughter Ellie launches PinkKisses.com for heartbroken gals". Nydailynews.com. 2010-08-29. http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/08/29/2010-08-29_tv_anchor_chuck_scarboroughs_daughter_ellie_launches_pinkkissescom_for_heartbrok.html. Retrieved 2010-11-02. 
4. ^ "Fountains of Wayne lyrics: Traffic and Weather". LyricsReg.com. http://www.lyricsreg.com/lyrics/fountains+of+wayne/Traffic+And+Weather/. "Chuck Scarborough turns to Sue Simmons. / Says, sugar, you don't know what you're missin'." 

External links

• Chuck Scarborough at the Internet Movie Database
• Chuck Scarborough's bio at nbcnewyork.com
• "Answers From Chuck Scarborough", The New York Times, February 24, 2010

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