Rob Powers (born 1965) is an

American television Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. , household ownership of television sets in the country is 96.7%, with approximately 114,200,000 American households owning at least one television set as of August 2013. ...

news anchor and journalist based at WEWS-TV 5, the Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

. Powers was named co-anchor of WEWS's evening newscasts in August 2016. Prior to joining WEWS, Powers was a sportscaster for several major-market television stations, including ABC flagship WABC-TV.

Career

Powers was born in

. Powers' early television assignments included stops in

Binghamton, New York Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the conflue ...

, and

Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

. He was later named sports director and 5:30 p.m. news anchor for WTVG, an ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio (at the time also directly owned by the network). When not anchoring sports, he was the play-by-play voice announcer for University of Toledo football and basketball, as well as the city's minor league baseball team, the Toledo Mud Hens. After his stay at WTVG, he became the weekday evening and Saturday morning sports anchor for WABC-TV, ABC's

flagship station In broadcasting, a flagship (also known as a flagship station or key station) is the broadcast station which originates a television network, or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalt ...

in New York City. On July 28, 2016, Powers announced via Facebook that he would leave WABC-TV on July 29 to his hometown, Cleveland, for a news anchor job at ABC affiliate WEWS-TV and to also reunite with his family in Cleveland. On December 22, 2018, Powers became the host of WEWS' high school quiz '' Academic Challenge''.

Awards

While in Toledo, Powers earned four

Emmy Award The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...

s., and has gone on to win more Lower Great Lakes Emmy Awards in various categories since coming to WEWS.52rd Annual CGL Emmy Awards recipients - Great Lakes Emmy Awards
/ref>

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Powers, Rob 1965 births Living people American television sports anchors College basketball announcers in the United States Regional Emmy Award winners Journalists from Indiana American male journalists Journalists from Ohio Journalists from Upstate New York Sportspeople from Binghamton, New York People from Indianapolis Sportspeople from Manhattan Sportspeople from Toledo, Ohio Television anchors from New York City Toledo Mud Hens Minor League Baseball broadcasters College football announcers Toledo Rockets football announcers University of Toledo people 20th-century American people 21st-century American people Place of birth missing (living people)