Chuck Scarborough
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Charles "Chuck" Scarborough (born November 4, 1943) is a veteran television news anchor, currently the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknight co-anchor with Sue Simmons for WNBC in New York.
A noted author and aviator, Scarborough has been with television network WNBC since 1974. He has been an anchorman longer than anyone in New York television history except WABC-TV's Bill Beutel, and already holds the record for the longest unbroken tenure behind an anchor desk in New York. He is the highest paid anchor in New York City making $3 million dollars a year. He has occasionally appeared on NBC News as well.
Scarborough has won 28 Emmy Awards, and was one of the first inductees into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2005. He was inducted alongside Sue Simmons, his 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. co-anchor. The pair has been anchoring together since 1980, longer than any other anchor team in New York City television history.
A native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of the The University of Southern Mississippi, he served in the United States Air Force, and currently has a Commercial pilot certificate. Before coming to WNBC, he worked at WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston. He was the main anchor at WNAC when it became the first station to use Move Closer to Your World, which has become one of the most famous television news themes ever heard.
He was the host of the syndicated program Images - A Year in Review in the late 1980s and also anchored the NBC News Digest for NBC News during the 1980s.
[edit] Novels
Scarborough has written three novels:
- Stryker (1978), ISBN 0-02-606920-2.
- The Myrmidon Project (1980), ISBN 0-698-11054-4.
- Aftershock (1991), ISBN 0-517-58014-4.
Aftershock was made into a made for television movie, Aftershock: Earthquake in New York in 1999, airing on the CBS television network and its New York O&O WCBS-TV.
