Chuck Henry (born January 1, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is a Los Angeles television personality and a newscaster with over 35 years of news experience. Chuck can be seen co-anchoring the 5, 6 and 11 PM newscast on KNBC-TV. Before anchoring at KNBC, he worked at KABC-TV for 11 years, where he served as reporter, anchor and director.

Henry gained national attention in October 2003 when he and his cameraman were nearly killed in the field while shooting a report about California forest fires. Although the newspeople were told to leave by the fire department, a sudden change in wind direction prevented Henry from doing so. Their van was completely engulfed and lost to the fire and the team had to be rescued by the LAFD. Chuck Henry was later seen on air emotional about nearly losing his life referring to the newsvan as a "Stupid truck, full of equipment." This incident was parodied on a 2005 King of the Hill episode Gone with the Windstorm and the sound bite is frequently mocked on the Kevin and Bean Show.

Henry joined the NBC4 staff in early 1994, just several days after his 48th Birthday, where he continues to anchor the 6 P.M. news every night. Henry is also well-known for hosting (and executive-producing) Travel Café, a travel program in which he flies all around the world highlighting food and travel. Travel Café, a two-time Emmy Award winner, was the first local (Los Angeles) TV series produced in HDTV and is also seen on the Travel Channel.

As the winner of 12 Emmies for anchoring the news and working behind the scenes, his trademark catchphrase "I'm Chuck Henry, so long everybody," had developed his popularity in news, magazines, or TV shows that he hosts.

Henry also hosted the short lived second incarnation of game show, Now You See It for CBS in 1989, as well as several unsold pilots in the 70s and 80s. Henry has requested his episodes not be rebroadcast, although the tapes of those shows have been converted by GSN to the digibeta format (required to air on Cable or Satellite TV).^{[citation needed]}

Henry visited virtually every continent in the world as host and producer of the popular travel magazine program, "Eye on L.A.," which aired from 1984 to 1991.

Henry was previously a news anchor/reporter at WMAQ-TV, the NBC-owned television station in Chicago, from 1978 to 1982. He began his career in broadcasting at KHVH-TV in Honolulu as news anchor/reporter from 1966 to 1971, with a short interval in Anchorage, Alaska, as a news anchor/reporter for KENI-TV from 1967 to 1968.

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[edit] Religion

Henry is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon Church.^[2]

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.nbclosangeles.com/station/newsteam/Chuck_Henry_.html
2. ^ Famous Mormons in the Media

[edit] External links

• NBC4 - Chuck Henry's bio

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