Steve Doocy
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Steve Doocy, (born October 19, 1956 in Algona, Iowa, but raised in Kansas) is an American television personality and author. He is best known as a co-host of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Fox & Friends morning news show. He is also an experienced weathercaster and does morning weather reports for FNC.
Prior to Fox & Friends, Doocy anchored the early morning newscast on CBS-TV's flagship station WCBS-TV in New York City. Before that, he was the co-host of Wake Up America on NBC cable, the host of NBC’s nationally syndicated program House Party with Steve Doocy, a remake of the 1960s Art Linkletter show, and the host of Not Just News on FOX. For six years, Doocy was the feature reporter for WRC in Washington, D.C..
For four seasons Doocy was the live Times Square reporter on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve on ABC-TV. In 2004, he left being a live Times Square reporter, as he and FNC correspondent Alisyn Camerota launched "All American New Year," FNC's New Year's Eve Special, which they both co-hosted. Steve retuned this year co-host the program with his Fox and Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade
Doocy has received eleven Emmy Awards for feature stories as well as the Associated Press’ Feature Reporter of the Year Award. He was also recognized by Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, with their Headliner Award.
At the University of Kansas, he was a news correspondent for KANU-FM, and also worked on-air at college station KJHK-FM where he served as the station manager and a variety of other posts before graduation with a BA in Journalism. Doocy worked television reporter jobs in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. He also hosted "PM Magazine" in Wichita and Kansas City. Before he moved to Washington, DC, he worked occasionally as a production assistant on ABC'S "Wide World of Sports" and "Monday Night Football".
In October 2006, Mr. Doocy's first book, "The Mr. and Mrs. Happy Handbook", a funny book about marriage and family life became an instant New York Times Bestseller. It was published by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins.
Doocy lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey, just outside New York City with his wife, Kathy, and their three children, Peter, Mary, and Sally. He is a practicing Roman Catholic.
