Cabot Rea
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Cabot Rea is an American former reporter and television news anchorman. He was the evening and night co-anchorman for WCMH, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1978, Rea graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio with a degree in music education. He taught music in Newark, Ohio, and was twice teacher of the year at Wilson Junior High. Also a professional singer and actor, Rea toured in a production of Camelot and was the principal baritone at the Ohio Light Opera Company.
Rea started at WCMH in 1985 as a weekend sports and daily feature reporter for the station, and received an Emmy Award for a feature news story on Camp Reams, a corrections facility in Lancaster, Ohio.[1]
On October 14, 2015, he announced that by the end of December 2015 he would retire from working at NBC4 news. He had been there for 30 years.[2]
Rea briefly served as the co-anchorman on the nightly news at WWHO, the Columbus UPN affiliate.
He teaches radio and television performance at Otterbein College.
Until recently,[when?] Rea served as the host of the Miss Ohio Pageant since 1986.
Rea has a wife, Heather, and three children: Josh, Meredith, and Cassie.
References
[edit]- ^ "Camp Reams". Archived from the original on 2005-12-18. Retrieved 2005-10-24.
- ^ "30 years with Cabot Rea", by Nick Bechtel, WCMH
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