Bob Jamieson Biography
Bob Jamieson is a former ABC News television news correspondent who worked for the network until January 2008. In 1971, he joined NBC’s national news bureau. Jamieson was a regular substitute news anchor on Today throughout the 1980s, as well as an anchor on NBC Nightly News and NBC News at Sunrise from 1986 to January 1987.
Bob Jamieson Age
Bob was born Robert John Jamieson on 1 February 1943, in Streator, Illinois, United States of America. He is 80 years old as of February 2023.
Bob Jamieson Education
Bob Jamieson attended Knox College before transferring to Bradley University for his bachelor’s degree. Knox conferred on him an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1996.
Bob Jamieson Family- Parents
He was born and raised in Streator, Illinois, the son of Robert Arthur Jamieson, a Scottish immigrant, and prominent Peoria, Illinois resident. Dick Jamieson, a professional football coach, was his older brother.
Bob Jamieson Wife
He hasn’t made his relationship public. His marital status, whether married, engaged, divorced, or single, is unknown.
Bob Jamieson Career
He began his career in local journalism in St. Louis and Chicago before joining NBC’s national news desk in 1971. He covered a wide range of national and international news, including various Middle Eastern crises. Jamieson was a regular substitute news anchor on Today throughout the 1980s, as well as an anchor on NBC Nightly News and NBC News at Sunrise from 1986 to January 1987. He anchored Before Hours, a 15-minute early morning business news program co-produced by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal, from March 1987 until September 1988. He began working for ABC in 1990. Throughout much of 1971, Jamieson was the principal weekday anchorman at WBBM-TV, a CBS-owned and operated station in Chicago.
He was appointed as a substitute for anchorman Wayne Fariss, who had transferred to a Miami television station in January 1971. Jamieson was WBBM-TV’s lead anchorman until October 22, 1971, when he was succeeded by Bob McBride of WJBK-TV in Detroit. Jamieson was the anchor of “The Big News,” WBBM-TV’s 5 p.m. local news hour, and its 10 p.m. half-hour broadcast in early 1971. WBBM-TV shifted the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” from 6 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the fall of 1971. Jamieson hosted half-hour local newscasts at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. until October 22, 1971, when he left the station. Jamieson covered a five-part series on “The Sexualization of America” for WBBM-TV in March 1971. A newspaper advertisement advertising the series in question.
In late 1971, Jamieson moved to WMAQ-TV, an NBC-owned and operated station in Chicago. He worked as a reporter for WMAQ-TV but also as a weekend newscast anchor. From Chicago, he also contributed to NBC News. On November 5, 1977, his debut report for NBC Nightly News aired. He subsequently moved on to become a full-time general assignment correspondent for NBC News in Chicago. In 1972, Jamieson contributed sixteen articles to NBC Nightly News, and in 1973, he contributed thirty-eight pieces. Floods in the Midwest, grain and meat prices, the aviation business, and a feature on singing telegrams were among the topics covered. Jamieson returned to his hometown of Peoria, Illinois on the April 19, 1977 broadcast of NBC News “Today,” to note developments since he departed.
Bob Jamieson’s Net Worth
Bob has an estimated net worth of 4 million dollars.