Everything about Chuck Scarborough totally explained
Charles "Chuck" Scarborough (born
November 4,
1943) is an American veteran television news anchor. He is currently anchoring solo a new 7 p.m. newscast (
New York Nightly News) and co-anchors with
Sue Simmons at 6 and 11 p.m.
A noted
author and
aviator, Scarborough has been with television station
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 English language anchor desk in New York, as
WXTV's
Rafael Pineda beats Scarborough by two years, having started with his station in 1972. He is the highest paid anchor in New York City making $3 million a year. He has occasionally appeared on
NBC News and in the 1980s often anchored prime time NBC Network newsbreaks.
Scarborough has won 31
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 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. In his final commentary on WNAC, he identified the issue of race as the most important challenge facing Boston. A scant few months later, Boston erupted into racial unrest as the result of a federal court order to end its policy of de facto racial segregation in the public schools.
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.
Simmons, Scarborough Incident
On May 12, 2008, as a news teaser was played during the TV series
Medium, Simmons can be heard saying "The
fuck are you doing?!" just before the fade to commercial. This reaction was prompted by Scarborough's missing his line in the news story. At 11:06 p.m., during the newscast, Simmons made a public apology on air about the word slip.
Pop Culture
Scarborough is mentioned in the
Fountains of Wayne song "Traffic & Weather" from their 2007 album of the same title.
Novels
Scarborough has written three novels:
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.
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