Chuck Scarborough

Biography

Chuck Scarborough is a retired American television journalist and author who served as WNBC's lead news anchor in New York from 1974 to 2024. A Pittsburgh native, he attended the University of Southern Mississippi and started out as a reporter at stations in Mississippi and Georgia before taking his first major market anchoring job at WNAC-TV in Boston in 1972, where he also hosted a weekly program called Mass Reaction. He joined NBC News in 1974 as co-anchor of NewsCenter 4 and later took over the station's 6pm and 11pm newscasts, and he also reported for the network. He won 36 local Emmy Awards and in 2005 was inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association's hall of fame. He wrote three novels, one of which, Aftershock, became a 1999 CBS television movie, and he appeared in The Adjustment Bureau (2011). He retired in 2024.

82years old

Turns 83 on November 4in 23 days

Born November 4, 1943Pittsburgh
Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Also credited as Charles Bishop Scarborough III

Movie Career

Films: 3
Career span: 11 years2000 to 2011

Every film, newest first

2011The Adjustment BureauIMDb rating 7.0
2003Capturing the FriedmansIMDb rating 7.6
2000Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2IMDb rating 4.1

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A first
Scarborough took over from Rafael Pineda of Spanish-language WXTV five years afterward, becoming the anchor who had served longest in New York television history.
First role
In 1972 Scarborough landed his first major market anchoring role at WNAC-TV in Boston. He had been brought in for a two-man team but quickly became the station's solo anchor.
Behind the camera
Scarborough's novel Aftershock was turned into a made for television movie called Aftershock: Earthquake in New York. It aired on the CBS television network in 1999.