Jodi Applegate Biography
Jodi Applegate is a broadcast journalist from the United States. She worked as an anchorwoman for local stations as well as MSNBC and NBC News on a national level.
How old is Jodi Applegate? – Age
She is 57 years old as of 2 May 2021. She was born in 1964 in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States.
Jodi Applegate Education
Applegate was raised in an Irish American Catholic family in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. Applegate graduated from Moon Area High School in 1982. She attended Temple University in Philadelphia for her freshman year. She transferred to New York University as a sophomore and earned a degree in television and film.
Is Michael Kay still married to Jodi Applegate? – Family
On February 12, 2011, Applegate married New York Yankees television broadcaster Michael Kay in New York City. Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani officiated the ceremony, which took place at the Plaza Hotel. Applegate announced on November 21, 2012, that she was expecting a baby through a gestational surrogate. After the station refused to allow her to reduce her schedule, she announced her departure from WPIX. On December 19, 2012, Applegate resigned from WPIX. Caledonia Rose, her daughter, was born on January 5, 2013. Charles Applegate Kay, her son, was born on November 12, 2014. Her home is in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lives with her family.
Jodi Applegate Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jodi Applegate Salary
She earns an annual salary of $2 million.
Jodi Applegate New York
In 2005, Applegate joined WNYW as co-anchor of Good Day New York, the station’s morning show. She was there for three years before being replaced by Rosanna Scotto in 2008. Shortly after, Applegate left the station. Applegate made a one-time-only appearance in the Broadway musical Chicago on May 28, 2008.
Applegate began working as a fill-in anchor on WCBS radio’s all-news station in 2009. She also filled in for Mario Bosquez, another former Good Day New York anchor, on Sirius XM Radio’s Martha Stewart Living Radio channel, guest-hosting Living Today. Applegate also appeared on Joan Hamburg’s WOR radio show in New York and Howie Carr’s WRKO radio show in Boston as a guest host.
In September 2009, Applegate returned to television news as an evening co-anchor for News 12 Long Island. She was allowed to leave News 12 with three months left on her one-year contract in order to join WPIX. She was named sole anchor of the Tribune Company-owned station’s revamped 10:00 p.m. newscasts on weeknights, and she began in that role on October 11, 2010. Applegate also served as the anchor for the station’s hour-long 5:00 PM newscast, which debuted in the fall of 2011.
Where does Jodi Applegate work? – Career
Jodi worked as an actress for a short time before transitioning to newscasting. She played the mother in a television adaptation of the classic children’s book A Pocket for Corduroy in 1986. In 1987, Applegate played the mother of the main character in a television adaptation of the Mercer Mayer children’s book There’s a Nightmare in My Closet.
Jodi hosted Close Up on C-SPAN in the early 1990s, a weekly public affairs program with a high school student audience. She later worked for Metro Traffic in San Francisco as a radio and television traffic reporter. Applegate hosted Good Morning Arizona on KTVK in Phoenix from 1993 to 1996. Applegate also worked as a reporter for KTVN in Reno, Nevada. Applegate met Rob Nikoleski, the sports news director at KOLO, a competing Reno station, in Reno. They eventually married, but after 8 years of marriage, they divorced.
Applegate was the first person to appear on the cable network MSNBC when it debuted in 1996. On the main NBC network, she hosted MSNBC Live and Weekend Today. She also appeared on the Today show as a substitute host. She hosted Later Today with Florence Henderson and Asha Blake in late 1999. In the year 2000, the show was cancelled. Applegate joined WFXT in Boston in mid-2001. She hosted the Fox 25 News newscast at 4:30 p.m. for a short time before moving to 5:00 p.m. in early 2002. From September 2003 to October 2004, she was the anchor of Fox 25 Morning News for about a year before moving to WNYW, a sister station in New York. Applegate has been seen hosting infomercials for Westmore Beauty Body Coverage since May 2020.
