Jim Lokay Biography
Jim Lokay is an American television news reporter and anchor who working as the FOX 5 anchor at 5 and 10 p.m. weeknights, as well as the host of “Like It or Not” and “The Final 5.”
How old is Jim Lokay? – Age
He is 42 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1980 in East McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States.
Jim Lokay Family
His father suffered a massive stroke in 2012. Lokay was thrust into the role of “man of the house,” assisting in life-or-death decisions regarding his medical care, traveling back and forth to Pittsburgh to visit him on a weekly basis, and attempting to keep his mother sane during his six-month hospital stay. He’s told his story publicly in the hopes of assisting others, and on the podcast, he tells host Sarah Fraser what it was like from the moment he found out what had happened to his father.
Lokay also recalls saying to his father when he wasn’t sure what would happen next. Mr. Semetsis, who died in 2009 at the age of 92, contributed to Mr. Lokay’s education at California University of Pennsylvania.
Jim Lokay Education
He graduated from the California University of Pennsylvania campus, where he studied communications.
Is Jim Lokay Single? – Wife
He has not revealed his marital status to the public. It is not known whether he is married, dating, engaged, or single.
Jim Lokay Career
He previously worked as a weekday general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for Hearst Television’s WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts. Lokay began her journalism career as a reporter and editor for Metro Networks in Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, he anchored, edited, and reported morning news segments for Metro Networks radio stations. Lokay worked for Syracuse, New York-based News 10 Now “now known as YNN Central New York” for two years, anchoring and reporting evening newscasts.
In 2005, he returned to Pittsburgh as a reporter for KDKA-TV, where he worked as a traffic reporter, transportation reporter, general assignment reporter, and fill-in anchor on several newscasts, including weekday morning news, weekday evening news, weekend morning news, and weekend evening news.
He also worked as the station’s consumer products reporter, hosting the popular “Does It Really Do That?” segments during his six-year tenure at KDKA. Lokay has also hosted or co-hosted a variety of KDKA non-news shows, including Pittsburgh Today Live, The Hines Ward Show, Steelers Huddle, a New Year’s Eve special, and the station’s annual “FreeCare Fund.” He began working at WCVB-TV in October 2011 as a weekday morning general assignment reporter and weekend morning anchor. In October of 2015, he left the station.
Jim Lokay Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Jim Lokay Salary
He earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.