Chad Tucker Biography, Age, Wife, WGHP FOX8 News, and Net Worth
Chad Tucker Biography
Chad Tucker is an American journalist working as a news anchor/reporter for WGHP FOX8 News. Chad started his TV profession while an understudy at East Carolina University, as a newsmaker for CBS subsidiary WNCT-TV in Greenville, N.C.
Chad procured a four-year college education in interchanges and a graduate degree in informative innovation from East Carolina.
Chad and his significant other Meredith have two girls. They appreciate trekking, voyaging, and investing energy with family and their protected canines Otis and Lucy.
Chad Tucker WGHP FOX8 News
Exhaust experienced childhood in the Stokes County people group of King, where at 12 years old he found his first communicating position as a radio host for WKTE-AM. He got his first taste of news-casting while in secondary school, composing for his old neighborhood paper, the previous King Times-News.
After graduation, he went to the opposite side of the camera, detailing and securing the end of the week news, then, at that point, the morning show for WNCT. In June 2002, he joined the FOX8 family and today secures the 4 p.m. news and reports for the 10 o’clock news.
In January of 2010, Chad got an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science for his story on the memorable Nancy Reynolds School in Stokes County. The story likewise acquired him in front of the pack in schooling detailed by the Radio and Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas (RTNDAC).
RTNDAC additionally granted Chad two silver honors for his announcing in training in 2008 and spot news revealing in 2006. He likewise got an Emmy designation for spot news detailing in 2006 and general task writing about expanded selections at the Stokes County Animal Shelter in 2012.
Perusers of Smitty’s Notes cast a ballot for Chad one of the “best male TV news characters” in the 2007 “The Best of Winston-Salem” grants. Chad and his associates at WNCT-TV won various honors, including the Edward R. Murrow Award for the constant inclusion of Hurricane Floyd and the floods that continued in September 1999.
A backer for cover pets, Chad volunteers with creature salvage gatherings to assist with carrying attention to our nearby safe houses and advance the reception of destitute creatures. In 2009 he made a Facebook page, named after his canine Otis, to assist with expanding consciousness of adoptable pets in neighborhood covers through virtual entertainment.
He has detailed broadly on creature government assistance and remorselessness cases and was quick to write about Susie, an 8-week-old blended breed canine that was observed beaten and set ablaze in a Guilford County park in 2009.
Susie’s story fortified North Carolina’s creature misuse regulation which currently bears her name. Chad has gotten acknowledgment for chipping in with creature salvage gatherings, artistic expression, hospice, and training and conveyed the fall beginning location for the East Carolina University School of Communication in 2005.
He shares his experience and news-casting information in the homeroom as an aide teacher of interchanges at Winston-Salem State University and Forsyth Technical Community College, both in Winston-Salem.
In the event that his curbed slow way of speaking doesn’t offer his Piedmont roots, Chad’s character does. He has a partiality for unassuming community people, a craving for North Carolina history, family lineage, and love of Andy Griffith Show reruns.
Chad has created a few local history books on Stokes County and his old neighborhood of King. His family establishes run somewhere down in Stokes County and American history.
Through his fatherly grandma, he is a fifth-incredible nephew of Charles King, whose house, King’s Cabin, turned into the namesake of the City of King. Through his maternal granddad, his heritage incorporates Thomas Stone, an underwriter of the Declaration of Independence.
WGHP FOX8 News Team
- Alliyah Sims
- Daniel Pierce
- Daryl Matthews
- Tyler Hardin
- Madison Forsey
- Lauren Crawford
- Jordan Brown
- Caroline Bowyer
- Tess Bargebuhr
- Danny Harnden
- Clara Goodwin
- Kevin Connolly
- Charles Ewing
- Emily Byrd
- Tom Britt
- Van Denton
- Natalie Wilson
- Shannon Smith
- Melissa Painter
- Katie Nordeen
- Neill McNeill
- Rasheeda Kabba
- Brad Jones
- Michael Hennessey
- Cindy Farmer
- Bob Buckley
Chad Tucker Age
Chad was born on May 12, 1976, in King, North Carolina.
Chad Tucker Wife
He is married to Meredith and the couple has two daughters together.
Chad Tucker Height
He is approximately 5’8” tall.
Chad Tucker Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of between $1 million and $5 million.
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