Christopher Glenn is a long-term radio and television reporter from the United States, whose media career spans more than 45 years. He joined the CBS network in 1971 as a television correspondent where he narrated events in the program entitled In the News which won an Emmy Award. Beforehand, he had worked in different radio stations on the east coast of the United States, mainly in New York and Washington DC.
Between the years 1982 and 1984, Glenn acted as the news anchor for the nighttime program on
CBS television, News Nightwatch. The program ran from 2 AM to 6 Am in the morning during weekdays. His most memorable act was during the live coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger launch. He captured the keynote scientific breakthrough that ended up in tragedy in its entirety. He was one of only a few other journalists who covered the aftermath of the tragedy from the air and it required all that a human could do to describe what had occurred.
One of his greatest achievements on radio was his hosting of the program The World News Roundup that has the longest run of any show in the history of broadcast radio. It was with this program that he developed his multi media skills ranging from production, scriptwriting, reporting and hosting. He also anchored the show that was originally called, The World Tonight, but later changed to World News Roundup Late Edition. He began broadcasting the program in 1999. He was also the creative mind behind the CBS cover stories What's in the News that began under his stewardship in 1995. He was the producer, writer and narrator of the news program.
For his long-term role in production, television writing and broadcasting, Calvin Glenn was given an award by the Television News Directors Association in 2009. On the personal front of his career, Glenn pioneered in the use of the personal computer among the other journalists in the CBS studios.
Christopher Glenn was born Joseph Christopher Glenn on the 23rd of March 1938 and died on the 17th of October 2006. Prior to joining the mainstream radio in the United States, he featured in several radio and television stations in the state of Connecticut, New York and in Washington DC. His demise at the age of 68 resulted from liver cancer. Since then he has been an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame.
