Brian Christie (died January 17, 2021) was an American television news

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, talk show host, and

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Career

He was host and executive producer of ''The Boomer Show''. For over a decade, he was a primary news anchor and reporter for CNN,

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, and

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when it carried CNN's US prime time nightly broadcast. During his years at CNN Christie anchored the network's ''The World Today'', ''The CNN Prime News'', and ''Newsnight''. He was also in the anchor seat for the analysis and reporting of many significant breaking news stories including

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, the O. J. Simpson Trial, the

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, and many other live national and international news events. Brian also hosted CNN's ''Your Turn''. The late night call-in show was a fixture of the CNN overnight schedule for several years in the mid-1990s. His career included stops as a primary anchor, reporter and host for WRAU-TV Peoria,

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-TV Nashville, KTBC-TV Austin, KUSI-TV, and XETV in San Diego. Christie often won the television news ratings battle at CNN, and twice in San Diego ( KUSI in the '90s and XETV from 2002 to 2007). He had also hosted a number of nationally syndicated news, information and talk shows, including ''Emergency Call'' and ''U.S.A.M.'', an early morning CBN network show. He had hosted talk shows in Boston (''The Good Day Show''), Nashville (''Nashville Magazine''), ''CNN Morning News'', San Diego (''San Diego People''), and Orlando (''The Sundance Show'') at WSWB TV. Before his career in the television industry, Christie was on the radio in several markets including: WOCB Cape Cod, Massachusetts, WSAR Fall River, Massachusetts, WBUD Trenton, WLOF Orlando, and

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Nashville.

Sources

*Wealth TV's The Boomer Sho

*Brian Christie on IMD
Video clips of Brian Christie on Headline News
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