Chuck Henry

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Chuck Henry (born January 1, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is a popular Los Angeles television personality and an Emmy Award-winning newscaster with has over 35 years of news experience. Before anchoring at KNBC, he worked at KABC-TV for 11 years, where he served as reporter, anchor and director.

Henry was once nearly killed in the field filing a report about California forest fires in October 2003. Although the newspeople were told to leave by the fire department, the NBC team decided to stay longer and were soon surrounded by flames. Their van was completely engulfed and lost to the fire and the team had to be rescued by the LAFD. Chuck Henry was later seen on air crying about the situation referring to the newsvan as a "Stupid truck, full of equipment." This incident was parodied on a 2005 King of the Hill episode Gone with the Windstorm.

Henry is best-known for hosting (and producing) Travel Café, a travel program in which he flies all around the world; this was the first local (Los Angeles) TV series produced in HDTV and is also seen on the Travel Channel. It was soon after that he joined the NBC4 staff in early 1994, just several days after his 48th Birthday, where he anchors the 6 P.M. news every night.

As the winner of 12 Emmies for anchoring the news and working behind the scenes, his trademark catchphrase "I'm Chuck Henry, so long everybody," had developed his popularity in news, magazines, or TV shows that he hosts.

Henry also hosted the game show Now You See It for CBS in 1989, as well as several unsold pilots in the 70s and 80s. Henry has requested his episodes not be rebroadcast, although the tapes of those shows have been converted by GSN to the digibeta format (required to air on Cable or Satellite TV).