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HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIAN ANCHORS ON U.S. TV
- Asha Blake ,
formerly of ABC and NBC was the first South Asian anchor/co-anchor with
her own national show (ABC "World News Now" in January 1997). She was
also co-host of "Later Today" 1999-2000. She also had been an anchor at
KNBC, in LA; KWGN in Denver; WDIV in Detroit; and KTHV in Little Rock.
- Riz Khan, Zain Verjee and several others on CNN International had their own shows on that network, starting in the mid-1990s.
- Uma Pemmaraju, who was a charter anchor on Fox News Channel when it launched in 1997, was anchor of various news updates and other shows.
- Daljit Dhaliwal, who anchored an ITV world news show that ran on PBS (1998-2001) is anchor of "Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal" on PBS (earlier she was anchor of "Wide Angle" on PBS; and CNN's "Your World Today")
- Hari Sreenivasan, currently a CBS correspondent, was an ABC News anchor for "World News Now" and "America This Morning" from 2004-2007.
- Patti Tripathi was the first South Asian anchor on CNN's Headline News.
- Kiran Khalid, currently a producer at ABC's "Good Morning America," was previously an anchor on KNTV in Las Vegas, and was the first Pakistani on American TV.
CURRENT ANCHORS
- Ravi Baichwal, ABC-7, Chicago
- Martin Bashir, ABC's "Nightline"
- Kiran Chetry, CNN's "American Morning" (formerly an anchor on Fox News Channel) and is the first Nepali on American TV.
- Hena Daniels, weekend anchor on WFSB, Hartford, CT
- Sanjay Gupta, host, CNN's "Paging Dr. Gupta" weekly show
- Riz Khan, DC-based anchor, Al-Jazeera International
- Vinita Nair, ABC's "World News Now"
- Monita Rajpal, CNN International's "CNN Today"
- Anjali Rao, CNN International's "World News Asia"
- Aditi Roy, NBC-10, Philadelphia
- Vineeta Sawkar, ABC-5, Minneapolis
- Ali Velshi, host, CNN's "Your Money" weekly show
- Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS (Global Public Square)" weekly show and former host of "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria"
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