Calvin Hughes is a

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Local 10, in

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, United States.Calvin Hughes Biography
''WPLG'', Retrieved December 1, 2010 In mid-2010 Hughes moved form the morning and noontime anchor position to a nighttime co-anchor slot.(4 June 2010)

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, the CBS station in Philadelphia,(12 October 2006)
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'', Retrieved December 1, 2010 ("CBS3 weekend coanchor Calvin Hughes will join Miami's WPLG next month as a reporter and anchor. Hughes started at Channel 3 in November '03") where he had been since November 2003 and anchored the weekend newscasts and served as a weekday night side reporter, covering several national stories, including the

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Concert and Amish schoolhouse shootings. Hughes previously worked in

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( WGCL-TV from 1999 to October 2002, where he worked with Jane Robelot),(13 November 2003)
Moving Up
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Former TV anchor now in Philadelphia
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, 1995–99),(26 October 2000)
Making Adjustments
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Hughes leaving WKYT
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'', Retrieved December 1, 2010 ("Calvin Hughes city hall reporter for WKYT-TV Channel 27 is making the leap to a station in Dallas the nation's eighth largest TV market")

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), and

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), as an anchor and reporter. At 19, Hughes began reporting for the local radio station

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in Columbia, Missouri, while still a student at the

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, where he received a degree in journalism.(29 July 1999)
Jane Robelot, Calvin Hughes to Anchor Expanded News at WGNX-TV, CBS Atlanta
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'', Retrieved December 1, 2010 He is a member of

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fraternity. Hughes was born in Cleveland and also spent several years in East St. Louis, Illinois. In 2002, he was selected to run the relay leg of the Olympic torch as it passed through the streets of

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, headed for the winter games in

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. Hughes resides in

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, with his wife, sons and daughter.

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