Perri Peltz

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Perri Peltz (born 1962) rejoined WNBC in 2005 after a nine year absence to co-anchor Live at Five with Sue Simmons. Peltz's previous stint at WNBC was from 1987 to 1996 where she co-anchored Weekend Today in New York with Ken Taylor and Weekend editions of News 4 New York at 6 and 11 with Ralph Penza. After her stint with WNBC, Peltz joined the Dateline NBC team for two years. During that period, Peltz often anchored live news coverage on NBC's 24-hour cable news channel MSNBC. She then moved to ABC's 20/20 for two years until she moved to CNN where she stayed until 2002. She was hosting CNBC's travelogue show, Ushuaia for five years from 1998 to 2003. Peltz was co-anchoring WNBC's Live at Five from May 31, 2005 until March 12, 2007 when she began hosting her own half-hour lifestyle broadcast. Peltz is the host of "News 4 You". The program was part of WNBC's way to boost ratings and features numerous stories from the consumer, health, and entertainment worlds.

On September 10, 2007, WNBC chose to eliminate News 4 You. The station brought back a newscast from 5:30-6:00 anchored by Sue Simmons and Michael Gargiulo. The station also removed a second showing of Crosswords at 4:30 and airs Access Hollywood, followed by Extra, before the newscast.