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Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Christine Chubbuck [a] (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for stations WTOG and WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.. The first person to die by suicide on a live television broadcast, Chubbuck shot herself in the head with a gun on July 15, 1974 during WXLT-TV's Suncoast Digest, after claiming that the network was about to present "an exclusive ...
Diane Reis Macedo is an American news personality. She is currently employed by ABC News where she serves as one of the anchors of ABC News Live. She also frequently fills-in as the pop news anchor on the weekend version of Good Morning America. Before coming to ABC News, She was a weekend morning anchor for WCBS-TV in New York City. Macedo ...
The first female African-American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV, her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin covering live breaking news, politics, education, health, and human-interest stories. Neville's first job after graduation was in New Orleans as a reporter/anchor for WWL.
She became the first female African-American television journalist on the West Coast when she was hired by KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate based in San Francisco, in 1966. [3] She spent the next three decades working for KPIX, becoming an anchorwoman in 1970, [ 5 ] and a few years later moved to the local NBC affiliate, KRON-TV . [ 1 ]
At CBS, Bob Schieffer took over the anchor chair at CBS Evening News on an interim basis. In an effort by CBS to reach a younger audience, Today's Katie Couric was made the new anchorperson. She is the first solo female anchor of a broadcast network's flagship evening newscast. She stepped down in 2011 and was replaced by Scott Pelley.
After moving to Atlanta in 1975, Pearson worked at WSB-TV for 37 years [1] and was the first female and first African-American to anchor the daily evening news for the station. She retired from broadcasting on July 25, 2012, with Jovita Moore taking her place. [ 2 ]
The program is broadcast live at 3:30 a.m. ET following World News Now (airing in the early timeslot to accommodate ABC stations that start their morning local newscasts at 4:00 a.m.). ABC-owned WPVI-TV was one of the first stations to air local news