Chuck Roberts Biography
Chuck Roberts is an American broadcast journalist best known as the former weekday news anchor on CNN’s Headline News, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chuck Roberts Age
Chuck was born Charles S. Roberts on 25 October 1950 in the United States of America. He is 73 years old as of October 2023.
Chuck Roberts Education
He attended University of Missouri, New Mexico Military Institute, Missouri School of Journalism
Chuck Roberts Family
Roberts has not yet disclosed any information about his parents or whether he has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of his family, her mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Chuck Roberts Career
He was the CNN network’s longest-serving anchor, anchoring weekday broadcasts from the network’s inception on January 1, 1982 (when he was the first anchor on the air) until his retirement on July 30, 2010. Roberts was the evening news anchor at KRGV-TV in Texas from 1973 to 1975. From 1971 to 1973, he worked as a newscaster at WHB Radio in Kansas City, Missouri. He hosted morning newscasts at KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate in Columbia, Missouri, from 1970 to 1971. During his tenure at Headline News, Roberts was in charge of the network’s coverage of every national election. Roberts reported from a rooftop in Charleston, South Carolina, on the arrival of Hurricane Hugo in 1989. He covered the trial of Wayne Williams, who was convicted in the Atlanta child murders case, live in 1985.
Roberts was the primary weeknight anchor at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska, before joining Headline News. During that time, he conducted an exclusive interview with serial killer Caril Ann Fugate for KMTV and flew aboard the Strategic Air Command “Looking Glass” post-nuclear-attack airborne command post. Roberts belongs to the Atlanta Press Club as well as the National Society of Professional Journalists. He received the University of Missouri Faculty/Student Award for Outstanding Journalism in 1971, and he was inducted into the New Mexico Military Institute’s Hall of Fame in 1998 for “lifetime achievement in service to the ideals of America.” Roberts graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), a state-supported educational institution in Roswell, New Mexico.
In the summer of 2006, Roberts made national headlines when he referred to Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont as the “al-Qaeda” candidate in a question.[2] On August 12, 2006, however, a Google search revealed no reference to Lamont as such on the Internet. Nonetheless, Roberts’ comment prompted calls for an apology on the blogosphere. In an interview with CNN on August 13, 2006, Arianna Huffington demanded that Roberts be held accountable for his comment and wondered why he wasn’t “demoted to covering Paris Hilton or entertainment news where the truth doesn’t matter.” Roberts now works as a consultant for WYAY Newsradio 106.7 in Atlanta and its owner, Cumulus Media. He also contributes to the station’s reporting.
Chuck Roberts Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.