Rick Folbaum (born August 5, 1969) is an American
broadcast journalist
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. Since September 2019, he has been a news anchor at
WANF
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, the
CBS
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affiliate in
Atlanta
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. Most recently, he was a freelancer at
CNN International
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and was also news anchor and correspondent for the
Fox News Channel.
Early life and education
Folbaum grew up in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and graduated in 1987 from
Cherry Hill High School West
Cherry Hill High School West (also known as Cherry Hill West or CHW) is a four-year comprehensive public high school, serving students in ninth grade through twelfth grades in Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, operating a ...
.
He graduated from
Syracuse University's
S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
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with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.
Career
Folbaum began his career as a part of the launch team of
MSNBC
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as a writer
and also worked in radio at
WOR-AM
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in
New York City
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.
Known for his years at
Fox News
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as an anchor of ''
Fox News Live
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About
The show featured news, guest anal ...
,'' the ''
Fox Report
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'' Saturdays, and as a substitute anchor for
Shepard Smith
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's programs, Folbaum joined in 1996 as one of the original anchors and correspondents, and was the network's
London
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-based correspondent from 1998 to 2000, covering news stories across
Europe
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and the
Middle East
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.
Folbaum was co-anchor for the
FOX
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Twelve sp ...
flagship station in
New York City
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,
WNYW
WNYW (channel 5) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside Secaucus, New Jersey–licensed MyNetworkTV flagsh ...
,
for ''Fox 5 News at 6''. He joined in early 2006. In 2009, he returned to Fox News as a weekday substitute anchor and regularly hosted the Saturday 6:00 p.m. edition of ''
America's News Headquarters''.
In August 2013, Folbaum joined
WFOR, the
CBS
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station in Miami, as an evening anchor. He anchored at WFOR until 2018.
Since November 2018, he worked as a
freelance anchor for
CNN International
CNN International (CNNI, simply branded on-air as CNN) is an international television channel that is owned by CNN Global. CNN International carries news-related programming worldwide; it cooperates with sister network CNN's national and inte ...
. In September 2019, Folbaum was named the evening anchor of
WGCL, the
CBS
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affiliate in
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 ...
.
Aside from his anchoring duties, he was also a recurrent guest-panelist on Fox's late-night satire show ''
Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld
''Red Eye'', also known as ''Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld'' from 2007 to 2015 and ''Red Eye w/ Tom Shillue'' from 2015 to 2017, was an American late-night/early-morning satirical talk show on Fox News, which aired at 3:00 a.m. ET Tuesday throu ...
'' prior to its cancellation.
Personal life
Rick and his wife Kelcey (née Kintner) have five children: Dylan, Summer, Chase, Harlowe, and Cash.
In March 2020, Folbaum was diagnosed with and recovered from
coronavirus.
References
External links
Bio from WGCL, cbs46.com
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1969 births
Living people
American television reporters and correspondents
Cherry Hill High School West alumni
People from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Syracuse University alumni
Fox News people
American male journalists