Maureen O'Boyle
| Maureen O'Boyle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 14, 1963 Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Maureen O'Boyle (born July 14, 1963) is an American television reporter and news anchor. She is a lead anchor for WBTV News 3 in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, where she anchors the weekly report "Stretching Your Dollar." O'Boyle has been the anchorwoman for the TV shows A Current Affair and Extra.
O'Boyle was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is one of ten children; her oldest brother Johnny died when he was a toddler. Growing up, her father's work for Xerox had the family moving almost every two years from New York to England until they finally settled back in Charlotte, where her father started a specialty advertising company called Timeplanner Calendars. O'Boyle's six brothers eventually took over the family business, grew it to a multimillion-dollar company, and sold it in summer 2007.
O'Boyle graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1981 and studied journalism at East Carolina University.
In her freshman year at East Carolina University, O'Boyle helped restart the campus radio station WZMB. She was also hired to do morning cut-ins at the NBC affiliate in nearby Washington N.C. station WITN. She later went to work for WNCT in Greenville on weekends. O'Boyle left school before graduating, and was hired by WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she worked as a nightside reporter and was promoted to noon anchor. Her next stop was WMAZ in Macon, Georgia, as co-anchor and reporter. She left that station to become main anchor for the CBS affiliate, KREM 2 in Spokane, Washington.
In 1990, at age 27, O'Boyle was recruited to replace Maury Povich on the nationally syndicated A Current Affair. Its viewership rose by 15 percent, and she rated a higher Q Score than any other newswoman on TV at the time. O'Boyle hosted A Current Affair until 1995, when she was replaced by Penny Daniels.
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