Roger Grimsby - Roger Grimsby was born on 23 September 1928. He was a famous American news anchor for television, an actor and a journalist. He was among the pioneers of television broadcast for local news.

Roger Grimsby was born on 23 September 1928. He was a famous American news anchor for television, an actor and a journalist. He was among the pioneers of television broadcast for local news. Roger schooled in Minnesota before proceeding to do History at the University of Columbia in New York. He also served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America in Germany before being posted to take part in the Korean War. It was while he was in the army that he developed an interest in broadcasting news. This was after his attachment with the radio service for the Armed Forces. After the Korean War, Roger Grimsby went back to Minnesota where he began his career in news anchorage in 1954 when he announced for WEBC Radio. Thereafter, he shifted to television broadcasts, an area of journalism that was growing at an unprecedented rate at that time. He was a news director and a correspondent for a number of T.V. stations in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He later joined KMOX. After two years at KMOX, he became the news director and anchor at KGO-TV, a station that was owned by ABC. However, he moved to the New York based WABC-TV seven years later in 1968. Here, he co-anchored Eyewitness News with Tom Dunn and later with Bill Beutel. It was at WABC-TV that he was to win 6 Emmy Awards. He then left in 1986 and joined WNBC-TV. Two years later, he moved to San Diego to anchor KUSI news before becoming semi-retired in 1990. His great career in news anchorage is mainly attributed to his superb sense of humor. He had the sarcasm that is common with journalists. For example, one of her colleagues was shown at the beginning of a newscast lifting her middle finger to a cameraman. When Roger was done reading the news, he exclaimed, “Well, as my colleague would tell you-‘We are number one’.” However, when he was at Eyewitness News, he had a number of feuds while still on-air with the other members of his team. Despite this, he served as an anchor for 18 good years in the largest television network in the United States. This may serve as a testimony to his unique news delivery and skill in journalism. As an anchor, he played himself anchoring the news in a number of movies such as Ghostbusters, Bananas, Nothing but Trouble, Turk 182 and The Exterminator. Roger Grisby passed on 23 June 1995 after suffering from lung cancer in New York City.