Rick Folbaum Biography

Rick Folbaum is an American journalist working as a news anchor for CBS46 News. Folbaum is dynamic with the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America. He’s accomplished broad work with the non-benefit fundamental abilities program, Overcoming Obstacles.

Rick procured a four-year certification in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He is the glad dad of 5 astounding children.

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Folbaum anchors the CBS46 News at 4, 6, and 11 pm and CBS46 News at 9 pm on Peachtree TV. Rick comes to CBS46 from CNN, where he was an anchor for CNN International. Preceding that, he went through 5 years as the essential anchor at CBS O+O WFOR TV in Miami.

There, Rick anchored live, hours-long inclusion of the 2018 slaughter at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, conveying live-through text with one of the understudies stowing away from the shooter.

Rick likewise drove inclusion of the 2017 shooting binge at Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport, for which he got an Emmy designation. He was broadcasting live as South Florida’s Cuban outcast local area woke to the information on Fidel Castro’s demise, driving CBS Miami’s exceptional inclusion of Castro’s memorial service days after the fact.

In June 2016, Rick was one of the principal columnists on the location of the Pulse Nightclub slaughter, field anchoring his broadcasts live from Orlando for a considerable length of time after that terrible occasion. Rick and his associates procured an Emmy grant for best “Group Coverage.”

Rick ventured out to Cuba in August 2015 to cover the memorable re-opening of the US government office in Havana. He returned the next month to cover Pope Francis’ very first outing to the island country. Rick won a 2017 Emmy for his series of reports highlighting South Florida’s Holocaust survivor local area, including his profile of Ben Ferencz, the last enduring Nuremberg investigator.

Preceding CBS4, Folbaum was a long-lasting anchor and reporter for Fox News Channel. Throughout 17 years with the organization, Rick anchored and announced such breaking news occasions as the 2009 “Supernatural occurrence on the Hudson” arrival of US Airways Flight 1549, the blast of the space transport Columbia in 2003, and the U.S. intrusion of Iraq. He revealed from Lower Manhattan on the morning of the 9/11 fear assaults.

Rick co-anchored all of FoxNews.com’s live inclusion of the 2012 decisions — from the primaries and party shows to the discussions and political race night. He likewise anchored the inclusion of the ecclesiastical conferences that chosen Popes Benedict and Francis and revealed live from Pope Benedict’s ecclesiastical mass at Yankee Stadium in 2008.

One of the first Fox News Channel anchors, Folbaum began with the organization when it was dispatched in 1996. As a London-based unfamiliar reporter from 1998-2000, Rick went through almost two years covering Europe and the Middle East, revealing widely on the NATO-drove battle in Kosovo, cross-line rocket assaults dispatched into Israel, the Northern Ireland harmony measure, Prince Edward’s wedding, and the examination concerning Princess Diana’s passing.

While with FOX, Folbaum went through three years filling in as an anchor at FOX 5 WNYW in New York. There, he won a 2008 Emmy for providing details regarding the 9/11 dedication function in Lower Manhattan. He additionally covered the 2008 GOP Convention in St. Paul, MN. Before joining FOX, Rick functioned as an author and maker at MSNBC and its archetype, “America’s Talking.”

Right off the bat in his vocation, he worked in newsrooms at WOR-AM in New York City, where he covered the primary World Trade Center assault in 1993, and WTXF TV in Philadelphia. His first live occupation was at KSPN FM Radio in Aspen, Colorado, where he won a 1994 AP grant for his inclusion of a gigantic fire on Storm King Mountain that killed 19 firemen.

Rick Folbaum Age

Rick was born on August 5, 1969, and grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Rick Folbaum Wife

He is married to Kelcey and the couple has 5 children together; Dylan, Summer, Chase, Harlowe, and Cash.

Rick Folbaum Height

He is approximately 5’9” tall.

Rick Folbaum Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.

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