Christopher Flanagan is an American News Anchor currently working for
WDVM-TV in the
Washington, DC
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market. Before that, he was at FOX affiliate and former network owned-and-operated station
WFXT in Boston, Massachusetts.
Education
He is a graduate of
Southern Connecticut State University
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.
Career
Starting his career as a weekend Sports Analyst from 1992 to 2004, Flanagan then took over the Main Anchor position at
WOI-DT in
Des Moines, Iowa
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, a position he held for four years while being nominated for several Emmy's. He departed the station in order to take on an anchor position on the weekday morning show for
WFAA in
Dallas
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. Flanagan then left Dallas to take on his second Main Anchor position, this time for
WEWS-TV
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in
Cleveland
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, Ohio. In 2016, Flanagan joined the staff of
WFXT in
Boston
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as an Anchor/Reporter.
Flanagan joined WDVM-TV in Washington, DC as an evening anchor on July 11, 2022, which coincided with that station's news department relaunch as ''DC News Now.''
References
1970 births
Living people
American radio news anchors
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