Rick Folbaum (born August 5, 1969) is an American broadcast journalist. Since September 2019, he has been a news anchor at

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, the CBS affiliate in

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. Most recently, he was a freelancer at

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and was also news anchor and correspondent for the

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Early life and education

Folbaum grew up in

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, and graduated in 1987 from

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. He graduated from

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's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.

Career

Folbaum began his career as a part of the launch team of

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as a writer and also worked in radio at WOR-AM in

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. Known for his years at

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as an anchor of ''

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,'' the '' Fox Report'' Saturdays, and as a substitute anchor for Shepard Smith's programs, Folbaum joined in 1996 as one of the original anchors and correspondents, and was the network's

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-based correspondent from 1998 to 2000, covering news stories across

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and the

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. Folbaum was co-anchor for the

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flagship station in

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, for ''Fox 5 News at 6''. He joined in early 2006. In 2009, he returned to Fox News as a weekday substitute anchor and regularly hosted the Saturday 6:00 p.m. edition of ''

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''. In August 2013, Folbaum joined WFOR, the CBS station in Miami, as an evening anchor. He anchored at WFOR until 2018. Since November 2018, he worked as a

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anchor for

. In September 2019, Folbaum was named the evening anchor of WGCL, the CBS affiliate in

. Aside from his anchoring duties, he was also a recurrent guest-panelist on Fox's late-night satire show '' Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld'' prior to its cancellation.

Personal life

Rick and his wife Kelcey (née Kintner) have five children: Dylan, Summer, Chase, Harlowe, and Cash. In March 2020, Folbaum was diagnosed with and recovered from coronavirus.

References

External links

Bio from WGCL, cbs46.com
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