Is It Live or Is It Brian??Brain Williams is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, having succeeded former news anchor Tom Brokaw in December, 2004.
Williams was raised in Elmira, New York. His parents moved him to Middletown, New Jersey when he was a teen. He was a volunteer fireman and worked at a pancake restaurant and at a Sears store.
After leaving college without a degree, he began his broadcasting career in Pittsburg, Kansas at KOAM-TV, and eventually moved to Washington D.C. to work at WTTG-TV as an assignment correspondent for a short time. He left WTTG to work at WCBS in New York, where he won an Emmy.
It was at WCBS that he was noticed by national network executives. They immediately recognized that he was every bit as handsome as he was dull witted, the perfect combination for a television news reader.
He lives with his wife Jane in New Canaan, Connecticut; the couple have two children. | |
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Mohamed Abdi Portland, OR USA | Posted at 2:26am on Monday, September 29th, 2008 | I watch the Nightly News with Brain. He doesn't assume that you already knew something about the story as other anchors do. I really like his way of presenting the information, he way of reporting is easy and intersting. I wish I could meet with him.
Yours,
Mohamed A.
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