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Charles Bishop "Chuck" Scarborough III, who has owned a home in Stamford, turns 71 on Tuesday. The television journalist and author was born Nov. 4, 1943, in Pittsburgh.
Scarborough started his career with the U.S. Air Force. His career in television began in Mississippi as a reporter at WLOX-TV in Biloxi and later WDAM-TV in Laurel.
His first major anchoring work came in 1972, at WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston, and he also hosted a weekly program called "Mass Reaction."
He joined WNBC-TV in March 1974 as sole anchor and became the station's lead anchor.
In 2003, he became the unofficial "dean" of New York-area television news anchors and the longest-serving English-language news anchor in New York television history.
He has won 31 Emmy Awards and was one of the first inductees into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2005.
He currently anchors the news shows at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. on WNBC.
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