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

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. Most recently, he was a freelancer at

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and was also an original 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 Cherry Hill High School West. 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 '' Fox News Live,'' 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 FOX flagship station in

, WNYW, 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 '' America's News Headquarters''. 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 is the father of five children: Dylan, Summer, Chase, Harlowe, and Cash. In March 2020, Folbaum was diagnosed with and recovered from

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References

External links

Bio from WGCL, cbs46.com
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