Brian Bolter is an American former television

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and

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, and currently a

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Career

Bolter worked at KHBS-TV in

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, KARK-TV in

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KHQA-TV KHQA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Hannibal, Missouri, United States, serving the Quincy, Illinois–Hannibal, Missouri–Keokuk, Iowa market as an affiliate of CBS and ABC. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Grou ...

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, and at

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. He worked as the principal anchor at

WTTG-TV WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox network. It is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNe ...

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between 1999 and 2013, co-anchoring the flagship 10pm newscast with Shawn Yancy. Bolter was the original anchor along with Tracey Neale when WTTG launched ''Fox 5 News at 5''. He launched the ''Fox 5 Newsedge at 11'' as a solo anchor in July 2006. In September 2007, he launched the ''Fox 5 Newsedge at 6'' as a solo anchor. Bolter finally anchored two hours of news on ''The Newsedge'' at 6 and 11 pm and continued to co-anchor of ''Fox 5 News at 10''. He had

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surgery done live during a newscast on Fox 5 News at 10. Bolter has won two local

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, one for the Mid-Atlantic's Best Live Reporter. He also has three regional

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including Best Newscast in 2007 and 2008. In 2006, ''

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'' named Bolter one of Washington's Best Dressed. Bolter's voice also appeared, uncredited, in a mock breaking news scene in the 2006 movie '' The Sentinel''. In 2013, he left WTTG to help expand the restaurant owned by him and his wife Lisa, the Red Red Wine Bar in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bolter, Brian American television journalists Living people American male journalists Year of birth missing (living people)