WNBC is a television station in New York City that serves as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo station WNJU. WNBC's studios and offices are co-located with NBC's corporate headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan; WNJU's facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey, also serve as WNBC's New Jersey news bureau. Through a channel sharing agreement with WNJU, the two stations transmit using WNJU's spectrum from an antenna atop One World Trade Center.
Mary Elizabeth Smith was an American gossip columnist. She was known as "The Grand Dame of Dish". Beginning her career in radio in the 1950s, for a time she also anonymously wrote the "Cholly Knickerbocker" gossip column for the Hearst newspapers. In the 1960s and early 1970s, she was the entertainment editor for the magazines Cosmopolitan and Sports Illustrated. Between 1976 and 2009, she wrote a self-titled gossip column for newspapers including New York Newsday, the New York Daily News and the New York Post that was syndicated in 60 to 70 other newspapers. On television, she appeared on Fox, E!, and WNBC.
NY1 is an American cable news television channel founded by Time Warner Cable, which itself is owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition in May 2016. The channel provides 24-hour news coverage, with a focus on the five boroughs of New York City; its programming primarily features news, traffic and weather, however NY1 also features specialty programs such as Inside City Hall.
Live at Five was a local afternoon television news program that aired on WNBC, the NBC flagship television station in New York City. The hour-long program was broadcast from Studio 6B at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan. Featuring a mix of news, features and interviews, the Live at Five concept was first introduced in 1979 by WNBC news director Ron Kershaw and Bob Davis; its final broadcast aired on September 7, 2007.
Lynda Baquero is an American correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company's flagship station in New York City. Baquero handles consumer reports for WNBC through her "Better Get Baquero" segment but has also covered the economy and tourism in Puerto Rico plus the Olympic Games in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Traveling through the Caribbean to such places as Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, she has provided coverage of various tropical storms such as Hurricane Georges that have battered the region.
David Ushery is an African-American television news anchor at WNBC News 4 New York, NBC's flagship owned and operated station.
Juliet AnnMarie Huddy is an American talk radio host, podcaster and former news anchor. From January 2021 until Winter 2022 she co-hosted the 5 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Early News show with Frank Morano on WABC 770 in New York City. She previously co-hosted the mid-day 12-3pm show with Curtis Sliwa on 770 WABC. She also hosts a podcast on the OG Podcast Network called "Juliet: UNEXPECTED". Prior to that, she had been the news and entertainment anchor for the Bernie and Sid Show in morning drive, also airing on WABC in New York City. Earlier, she was a co-anchor of Good Day Wake Up on Fox 5 NY WNYW, alongside Ben Simmoneau. She was formerly the host of The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet on Fox News. She also was an anchor for the Fox News Channel.
Tony Guida is a New York-based local television and radio personality. He is currently a news anchor for WCBS Newsradio 880 and a business correspondent for CBS News.
Carol Anne Riddell is an American reporter and journalist specialising in news on children and education. She was the education reporter and co-anchor of the News 4 New York newscast on Sundays for WNBC-TV in New York City until 2009.
Tanya Rivero has been a news anchor for WABC-TV since July 2024. Previously, she was a news anchor for CBS News from 2017–2024. She was also the host of Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero on Wall Street Journal Live between April 2014 and 2017.
Carolyn Gusoff is an American television news reporter and author, working as a Long Island reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. Prior to that, she spent three years as a reporter at Fox 5 in New York City, and before that she worked for 15 years at WNBC in New York City as the Long Island Bureau Chief/Reporter and anchor of Weekend Today in New York. Her book, Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story, which she wrote in collaboration with kidnapping victim Katie Beers, is a New York Times bestseller.
Katherine Creag Gafner was a Filipino-American television journalist. She worked for WNBC for a decade prior to her death. Before that, she worked for NY1, WTVH, and WNYW. She won several awards for her journalism.
Asa Aarons is an American consumer reporter, photojournalist, and co-creator of "Just Ask Asa!" His reports focus on the problems, concerns and realities of everyday life, ranging from false advertising claims to credit card rip-offs and business swindles. Aarons has appeared on television stations in cities including New York City, Detroit and Pittsburgh. He appeared on WNBC in NYC from 1993 until the NBC 2.0 budget cuts in 2007.
Neil Rosen is an American entertainment critic/journalist based in New York City. Currently, he is the entertainment critic for CUNY TV and PBS, is a frequent on-air contributor to The Today Show and can be heard regularly on Sirius XM Radio. He is the host, creator, and producer of the popular, Emmy-nominated national TV roundtable movie critic show “Talking Pictures With Neil Rosen.”
Katherine Bear Tur is an American author, and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC, where since 2021 she has hosted Katy Tur Reports. She has also reported for the NBC news platforms Early Today, Today, NBC Nightly News, Meet the Press, and WNBC-TV, and for The Weather Channel.
David Rhodes is an American media executive. He was named Executive Chairman of the Sky News Group in February 2023. In July 2021, he was hired to lead international business development at Sky, a subsidiary of US cable company Comcast Corp. He served as the president of CBS News from 2011 until 2019. He was the youngest network news president in the history of American television.
Gary Anthony Ramsay is an American news anchor, journalist, diversity advocate and communications businessman. He worked with WCTQ and WINK-TV, before spending 15 years as an anchor with NY1 from 1992 onwards. In 2007, Ramsay left his role with NY1 to launch his own media company Great Pitch Media. In 2012, he set up Arise News with Nduka Obaigbena.
Dianna Marie Russini is an American sports journalist who currently works as an NFL reporter and insider for The Athletic. She had previously worked for several years at ESPN as an NFL analyst and insider, appearing frequently on NFL Countdown and NFL Live. Russini joined ESPN and became a SportsCenter anchor in July 2015. Prior to being hired by ESPN, she worked as the main sports anchor for WRC-TV in Washington, D.C.
Norma Quarles is an American television reporter and anchor. She worked for NBC, CNN and PBS during her career.
