{"id":128935,"date":"2024-11-22T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128935"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T14:51:15","slug":"chuck-scarborough-to-step-down-as-wnbc-news-anchor-after-50-year-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128935","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Scarborough to Step Down as WNBC News Anchor After 50-Year Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Chuck Scarborough, the broadcaster who for 50 years brought New Yorkers news of blizzards, financial collapses, terror attacks and assassinations, said Thursday that he would step down from his anchoring duties at WNBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe time has come to pass the torch,\u201d Mr. Scarborough said at the end of the 6 p.m. newscast. \u201cFifty years, eight months and 17 days after I walked into the door here at the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company, I will step away from this anchor desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scarborough, 81, said his last broadcast as anchor will be on Dec. 12. He will not leave WNBC entirely, and will contribute periodically to special projects, NBC 4 New York said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Beginning with \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/25\/nyregion\/chuck-scarborough-50-years-wnbc.html\" title=\"\">Good evening, I\u2019m Chuck Scarborough<\/a>,\u201d Mr. Scarborough became an institution in New York over the decades he delivered the news about everything from storms and financial crises to protests and plane crashes. He announced the shooting of John Lennon in 1980, helmed newscasts in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and won praise with his team for its coverage of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scarborough anchored WNBC\u2019s 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday news shows for more than 40 years. In 2016, he stepped down from the late broadcast and continued as the co-anchor at 6 p.m. The station said his replacement will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cChuck Scarborough is the gold standard in American broadcast journalism,\u201d Eric Lerner, the president and general manager of NBC 4 New York, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A native of Pittsburgh, Mr. Scarborough was in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/22\/ask-chuck-scarborough\/\" title=\"\">the U.S. Air Force<\/a> for four years before he set off on a career in journalism. He received a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, and served as an anchor at two stations in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That was followed by anchoring jobs in Atlanta and Boston before Mr. Scarborough landed at WNBC in 1974.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he marked his half-century as an anchor in New York in March, Mr. Scarborough hailed what he described as the city\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEach time it was knocked down, people were saying, \u2018That\u2019s it, New York can\u2019t possibly survive,\u2019\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/25\/nyregion\/chuck-scarborough-50-years-wnbc.html\" title=\"\">he told The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cAnd each time, we would recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/22\/nyregion\/chuck-scarborough-wnbc-anchor.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Scarborough, the broadcaster who for 50 years brought New Yorkers news of blizzards, financial collapses, terror attacks and assassinations, said Thursday that he would step down from his anchoring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128935\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}