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As an African-American television reporter, Jenkins was an anchor and correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York for nearly 25 years. She reported from the floor of national presidential conventions from the 1970s to the 1990s, and from South Africa she reported on the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and co-produced an Emmy-nominated prime ...
He started at WNBC-TV in New York City in 1963 and became one of the city's first black television journalists and went on to work as a reporter, anchorman, and producer for more than three decades. [3] He retired from WNBC-TV in 1991. He wrote two books. "Live and Off-Color: News Biz (1982, A&W Publishers) is an autobiography.
WNBC-TV was the first station on the East Coast to air a two-hour nightly newscast, [33] and the first major-market station in the country to find success in airing a 5 p.m. report, when NewsCenter 4 (a format created for WNBC by pioneering news executive Lee Hanna) [35] was introduced in 1974, a time when channel 4 ran a distant third in the ...
Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980 to 2012. Her contract with WNBC expired in June 2012 and WNBC announced that it would not renew it. Her final broadcast was on June 15, 2012, shortly after her 70th birthday. [2]
For a while, WNBC moved its 5:30 newscast back to 5 p.m. (bumping Extra to the 5:30 slot), but did not return the Live at Five name to the newscast. Once again, Sue Simmons anchored the program, with David Ushery as co-anchor; the current 5 p.m. newscast continues to use the general News 4 New York brand rather than the Live at Five brand.
In 1977, Cafferty moved to WNBC-TV in New York City as a weekend, then evening co-anchor on the station's 6:00 p.m. news hour. In 1979, Cafferty became co-anchor of WNBC-TV's 5:00 p.m weeknight newscast, and the following year he was joined on the program by Sue Simmons .
The 2024 Paris Olympics kicked off Friday — and the Games are set to be historic in more ways than one. Olympic ad spending has been on a tear, with Comcast's NBCUniversal seeing record-breaking ...
Reynolds later hosted All Night with Joey Reynolds on WNBC-DT2, the digital subchannel of television station WNBC-TV known as "New York Nonstop." It was broadcast live from the NASDAQ site in Times Square at 43rd Street and Broadway. Reynolds was reunited with his former WNBC radio sidekick, Jay Sorensen, as the program's announcer.