Christian P. Wragge ( ; born June 19, 1970) is an American

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. He is the co-anchor for

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's CBS2's ''News This Morning'' and CBS2's ''News at Noon'', alongside

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. He was previously on WCBS's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts, until he moved to CBS's ''

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'' (nationwide), where he served as morning co-anchor from January 2011 until January 6, 2012, when the broadcast was replaced.

Career

Born in

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and raised in Rutherford, Wragge moved to Mahwah as a pre-teen. He attended

Mahwah High School Mahwah High School (MHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students from Mahwah in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the only secondary school of the Mahwah To ...

, where he was an athlete. He received a football scholarship to the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...

. He earned three varsity letters and graduated a year early with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications to pursue a career in professional sportscasting. Wragge became sports reporter for

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, where his first television appearance was as a reporter as part of a ''48 Hours'' exposé on NBA Spring Break 1991. He then became anchor for the nightly sportscasts on

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, an NBC affiliate in Hartford, Connecticut. Wragge was also a reporter for NBC Sports, including the

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, the WNBA,

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, the Gator Bowl, the Sun America Sportsdesk, and

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. From 1996 to 1997, he was a correspondent with the nationally syndicated entertainment news show ''

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''. His first interview was with actor

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. He went on to cover

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, the Emmys, and

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. In 1998, Wragge joined

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and became Sports Director and anchor of the nightly sportscasts on ''News2Houston'' on

KPRC-TV KPRC-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Graham Media Group. Its studios are located on Southwest Freeway ( I-69/ US 59) in the Southwest Management District (formerly Gre ...

in Houston, Texas, and was the recipient of the 2002 Associated Press "Best Sportscast" award for the Houston area.Chris Wragge: KPRC News Station Story
In December 2000, while still with NBC Sports and KPRC, Wragge joined USA Sports as the on-site correspondent for ''PGA Tour Sunday'', the

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's leading broadcast partner. He also became presenter of the Ask DIY,

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and the

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. In 2003 and 2004, Wragge was a behind-the-chutes reporter for the

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during their NBC telecasts, and during a couple of events served as the play-by-play announcer in

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's absence. In 2004, after long-time sportscaster

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was abruptly fired, Wragge joined

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as lead sports anchor. On November 6, 2006, Wragge become news anchor for ''CBS2 News at Noon'' and ''CBS News at 5 PM'' with newly hired

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. The pair replaced

and news veteran

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. On January 3, 2011, Wragge became the lead weekday anchor (with

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) for CBS News's ''

'' after serving as in the same role on the Saturday version for the past few years (while also working his primary job at WCBS). In September 2011, when Wragge was told of impending changes to the CBS morning program, he returned to WCBS, replacing Don Dahler as co-anchor for

6 p.m. weeknight telecast, alongside Dana Tyler. In July 2012, he and Tyler also became co-anchors of

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10/55's News at 9 p.m. In February 2013, Wragge was moved to anchor ''CBS 2 News This Morning'' and ''CBS 2 News at Noon'' with alongside

replacing Rob Morrison due to Morrison's departure following a domestic violence incident. As a result, Dana Tyler works solo on ''CBS 2 News at 6PM''. Wragge has been a resident of

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, having moved there from

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.Spelling, Ian
"On the News: CBS 2’s Chris Wragge"
''

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'', July 30, 2018. Accessed July 30, 2018. "The world can change in 10 years. Chris Wragge can vouch for that.... And, the Mahwah native, after years in Manhattan, recently settled in Wyckoff with his wife, Sarah, and son, Christian."

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