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She was the first female news anchor in American history to anchor the 6:00pm and 11:00pm broadcasts in March 1973 while anchoring the news at WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan. After four years at WILX-TV in Lansing, she was offered a job working as a reporter and 11pm news anchor for WJBK-TV (CBS) in Detroit, where she worked for six years.
Another addition to the news staff was anchor Stephen Clark, a former anchor at WCBS-TV in New York and CBS News correspondent. Chief meteorologist Jerry Hodak was the station's primary weathercaster for at least 26 of his more than 40 years in Detroit television.
Ted Koppel, ABC News; Bill Kurtis, former WBBM-TV anchor, now at CBS News; Nicole Lapin, CNN, CNN Pipeline, HLN; Matt Lauer, formerly of NBC News Today; Jim Lehrer (deceased), The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ; Don Lemon, formerly CNN; Dan Lewis, KOMO-TV News; Art Linkletter (deceased), KGB-AM radio, San Diego (1930s) Tom Llamas, WNBC-TV former ABC ...
In 1978 she moved to Richmond, VA and started her career at WWBT-TV as a weather anchor and news reporter. In 1981, she crossed the street to work at WXEX as a co-anchor. Three months later the other stations in the market also had female co-anchors and all the on-air people had contracts.
Though she is now retired from television news, her daughter (also named Amyre Makupson) was recently a primary news anchor at WGXA in Macon, GA. Amyre II has since been hired by, ironically, her mother's old stations WWJ and WKBD, as "executive producer of community impact" for the new CBS News Detroit , set to launch in January 2023.
Vic Faust, who left WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) in Detroit in 2015 for St. Louis, lost his anchor job there after ranting at his radio co-host off the air.
Chowdhry began her broadcasting career at News 14 Carolina in 2004 and later moved to News 12 New Jersey. [1] In 2011, she became the news anchor for First Forecast Mornings, a weather-and-news morning show on WWJ-TV in Detroit. [2] First Forecast Mornings ended on December 28, 2012. [3]
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