Dave Michaels (news anchor)
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Dave Michaels was a news anchor on CNN & CNN Headline News from 1985 - 1993. Before that Dave Michaels anchored various news casts since the early 1960s.
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Dave Michaels was born November 15, 1934 in Flushing, New York. He was raised in Flushing and Franklin Square, NY. He graduated from Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, NY and attended Hofstra College. After working as an NBC Page in 1954 Dave worked in radio in Binghamton, New York and later in Freeport Long Island. In Binghamton he hosted shows on WKOP and WINR. Later on Long Island he was a disc jockey on WGBB, Freeport. After service at Third Army Headquarters, Ft. McPherson, Atlanta he entered TV. He hosted AM New York for a short time on WABC-TV and was sent to KABC-TV, Los Angeles to anchor Eyewitness News. He also hosted AM Los Angeles with Maureen Reagan. He returned to Atlanta to anchor 6 and 11PM news for WXIA-TV for nine years. He joined CNN anchoring Headline News and later CNN. He anchored the first Gulf War. He has played a TV Newsman in numerous movies and TV shows including – Sharkey’s Machine, Fun With Dick and Jane, Prisoner of Second Avenue, and CBS’ One Terrific Guy. He is retired in Atlanta and continues doing Industrial and Commercial Spokesman work.
Dave has just published an article in ILLUSTRATION Magazine on the great Sports Cartoonist Willard Mullin. It's in the Fall 2007 Edition #20. It's titled "Remembering Willard Mullin and the Lost Art of Sports Cartooning."
