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Morning Express With Robin Meade
''Morning Express with Robin Meade'' is a morning news program that aired on the HLN television network in the United States from 2005 to December 5, 2022. About the show ''Morning Express with Robin Meade'' aired weekdays on HLN from 6:00 am to 11:00 am ET. The show broadcast live from the CNN Center in Atlanta, with a focus on news headlines pertaining to crime, politics, weather, entertainment, health, sports, and the economy. ''Morning Express'' featured anchor Robin Meade, meteorologist Bob Van Dillen, money correspondent Jennifer Westhoven, entertainment correspondent Melissa Knowles, and sports anchor Coy Wire. The group was once described by Stephen King as "his morning people" in his ''Entertainment Weekly'' column. Between October 2008 and April 2009, the show was accompanied by the "Morning Express Challenge" trivia game. The game ran from 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern and offered trivia on current events, polls, predictions and a chat room. Meade and the other correspond ...
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Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among sever ...
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Lynn Smith
Lynn Marie Smith is a media consultant and former news anchor. She previously worked with HLN having anchored '' Weekend Express''. She was later named the host of ''On The Story'' in March 2019. Early life Smith graduated from Miami University in Ohio where she majored in Mass Communications and wrote for the university newspaper. Following graduation, she interned with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. In 2001, she joined the NBC Page Program in Los Angeles and then moved east where she joined NBC's ''Today''. Career At NBC News, Smith served as the anchor of ''Early Today'' and MSNBC's ''First Look'' since 2010. During that time, she was also a fill-in newsreader on ''Weekend Today'' and covered overnight breaking news at MSNBC. The year prior, Smith had been a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WNBC's local station "News 4 New York." Earlier, at NBC-owned station WCAU, Philadelphia, she served as general assignment reporter since Jun ...
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ...
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Mike Galanos
Mike Galanos (born November 7, 1964) is an former American news anchor for HLN, currently appearing as part of the team on ''Morning Express with Robin Meade''. Based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Galanos joined the network in May 2002. He graduated ''summa cum laude'' from San Francisco State University. Galanos was the local sports anchor on KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada from 1991 to 1994 with Ric Renner as the weekend anchor, and was well known for his excellent knowledge of sports in northern Nevada. Early life and career Galanos was born November 7, 1964. He is of Greek origin. He started out as a news cameraman, teleprompter operator and video journalist at CNN Headline News for news anchors Don Harrison and Bobbie Battista in the late 1980s. Then he moved to Reno, Nevada and was the on air sports commentator and reporter for KOLO TV. After leaving Reno, he moved up the ranks to CNN Sports Illustrated as an anchor but later Galanos was at CNN Headline News,as a gener ...
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Christi Paul
Christi Paul is a former weekday news anchor for HLN and weekend anchor for CNN's '' New Day''. Biography Paul was raised in a Christian family in Bellevue, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Toledo where she earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She first started in broadcast journalism in Clarksburg, West Virginia, working as a news anchor, editor, photographer, and reporter at WDTV. She then worked as a reporter and anchor in Boise, Idaho, and Phoenix. While at KTVB in Idaho, she was honored by the Idaho Press Club for her stories about Julianne Prudhomme, a four-year-old girl who underwent a five-organ transplant. Paul joined CNN in the spring of 2003. During her tenure at CNN, she anchored programs on the sister station HLN, which included being a substitute host for ''Morning Express with Robin Meade''. She was also the weekend anchor for CNN's '' New Day'' for nine years. She covered the GOP Convention in 2016 in Cleveland. On June 26, 2022, sh ...
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Hines Ward
Hines Edward Ward Jr. (born March 8, 1976) is an American football coach and former wide receiver of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Georgia and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the third round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He is currently the Head Coach of the San Antonio Brahmas. Ward played his entire professional career for the Steelers and he became the team's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Ward was voted MVP of Super Bowl XL and upon retirement was one of eleven NFL players to have at least 1,000 career receptions. Ward is often regarded as one of the best wide receivers of the 2000s, as well as one of key figures for the Steelers success during the 2000s. Aside from his career in the NFL, Ward has appeared in various forms of film and television media, including the reality TV series ''Dancing With The Stars'' and brief cameos in the 2012 film ''The Dark Knight Rises'' and ...
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Rafer Weigel
Rafer Weigel (born May 5, 1969) is an American broadcast journalist who most recently was an early morning weekday news anchor and general assignment reporter at WFLD-Channel 32 in Chicago. Formerly, he was the weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago, the sports anchor for CNN HLN’s ''Morning Express with Robin Meade'' and also an actor. Background Weigel grew up in a journalism household in Evanston, Illinois, the son of the Chicago television sportscaster and newspaper columnist Tim Weigel and former WGN Radio news anchor Kathy Worthington. He is the grandson of Weigel Broadcasting founder and former Lawrence Welk radio announcer John Jacob Weigel. Weigel has two sisters, Jenniffer Weigel, a former Chicago television news anchor and published author, and Teddi, who began high school in 2008. He was married to photographer Tiffany Weigel. They had their first child, son Heathcliff John Weigel, on November 20, 2009. He later divorced Tiffany and is now eng ...
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Richard Lui
Richard Lui is an American journalist and news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News. Lui is currently a breaking news anchor for NBC and MSNBC, broadcasting from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. prior to that role he was a co-host of Early Today, and anchor of MSNBC daytime coverage. He was formerly at CNN Worldwide. At CNN Worldwide he became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily, national cable news show when he solo anchored the 10 a.m. hour on CNN Headline News (2007 to 2010). Mediaite ranked Lui among the top 100 in news buzz on its "Power Grid Influence Index of TV Anchors and Hosts" and one of "The 50 Sexiest in TV News". Lui is also a columnist, contributing to publications including '' USA Today'', '' Politico'', '' The Seattle Times'', '' Detroit Free Press'', and San ''Francisco Chronicle''. His public speaking spans six continents and some 200 events in the last several years. Twitter Counter places his following in the top 1%. Lui' ...
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Adrianna Costa
Adrianna Costa (born Adrianna Heber; June 26, 1981) is an American television personality best known as an entertainment reporter and a reality show host. Biography Heber, whose mother's name is Anita Garza,(Dec._22,_2005):_"Agoura_High_Alumna_Gets_her_Big_Break",_by_Avi_Rutschman.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Agoura Hills, CA"> ''The Acorn'' [Agoura Hills, CA/nowiki>(Dec. 22, 2005): "Agoura High Alumna Gets her Big Break", by Avi Rutschman">/nowiki>Agoura Hills, CA"> ''The Acorn'' [Agoura Hills, CA/nowiki>(Dec. 22, 2005): "Agoura High Alumna Gets her Big Break", by Avi Rutschman/ref> graduated from Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, Agoura Hills, California, in 1999. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism, with a minor in film studies, from the University of Colorado in 2003. In 2001, she appeared in the 36-minute student short ''Red Roses'' as the character "Veronica". Heber began working as a local entertainment reporter at the Palm Springs, Califo ...
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Shanon Cook
Shanon Cook is an Australian entertainment journalist and producer based in the United States. A former CNN entertainment reporter, she currently works as a spokesperson for the music streaming service Spotify, where she appears on TV and radio and talks to online and print media about music trends as well as popular and emerging artists. Career Cook has appeared as a pop culture expert on ''Entertainment Tonight'', BBC America, CBS, CBSN, ABC News and CNET as well as CNN, where she worked for 12 years as a producer and reporter, mainly covering music and entertainment. In 2004-05 Cook presented daily live entertainment reports on the HLN morning show ''Robin and Co.'', now known as ''Morning Express with Robin Meade''. In 2002-04 Cook was a producer and reporter for the CNN International show ''The Music Room'', a half-hour show about popular bands and artists. In 2007 she hosted four specials for CNN.com about music and the arts. During her tenure at CNN, Cook interviewed e ...
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Kendis Gibson
Kendis Gibson (born September 6, 1972, in Belize City), is a Belizean-born journalist and an anchor for WFOR-TV. He has won two Emmy Awards for "outstanding news reporting" and "sports feature". He has been an anchor and correspondent for CNN, CBS News, ABC News, and a reporter for MSNBC. Gibson also anchored ''World News Now'' and ''America This Morning''. He has reported on topics including the crash of the Concorde, the September 11 attacks, the Academy Awards, and the Grammy Awards. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. Biography Gibson was educated at John Jay High School (now the John Jay Educational Campus), in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, followed by the State University of New York at Oswego, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Gibson started his career at the NBC station in Rochester, New York. After spending three years reporting there, he moved to WTXF in Philadelphia as the morning ...
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Elizabeth Prann
Elizabeth Prann is an anchor/reporter for HLN formerly of the Fox News Channel, based in the Fox News Washington, D.C. bureau. Prann previously worked from July 2008 to January 2010 as a reporter, fill-in anchor and producer for the Panama City affiliate of NBC, WJHG. She joined HLN in 2018. Biography Prann received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Florida, where she was a member of the women's lacrosse team and the Delta Gamma sorority. She first worked for Fox News as a production assistant for '' On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren'' from 2006 to 2008. In that capacity, Prann played a significant role in the launch of Gretawire.com; creating podcasts and developing content for the website. She joined Fox News as a correspondent in February 2010. During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Prann reported extensively on the scene. During Fox News' immediate coverage of the West Fertilizer Plant explosion, she served as the network's anchor. Prann married ...
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