Rafer Weigel
| Rafer Weigel | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 5, 1969 New Haven, CT |
| Education | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | Morning Express with Robin Meade |
Rafer Weigel (born May 5, 1969) is the 6pm and 10pm news anchor at KTVI-TV Fox2 in St. Louis. Formerly he was the weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago, the sports anchor for CNN HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade and also an actor.
Weigel grew up in a journalism household in Evanston, Illinois, the son of the Chicago television sportscaster and newspaper columnist Tim Weigel and former WGN Radio news anchor Kathy Worthington. He is the grandson of Weigel Broadcasting founder and former Lawrence Welk radio announcer John Jacob Weigel. Weigel has two sisters, Jenniffer Weigel, a former Chicago television news anchor and published author, and Teddi, who began high school in 2008. Weigel has been married to photographer Tiffany Weigel since June 2002. They had their first child, son Heathcliff John Weigel, on November 20, 2009. Weigel is named after Olympian Rafer Johnson.
Growing up, Weigel regularly spent time among journalists and media personalities, including columnist Mike Royko, Studs Terkel, Steve Dahl, Gene Siskel and Richard Roeper. His father Tim began his career as a newspaper sportswriter and eventually became a popular Chicago sports and news anchor. He died of cancer at the age of 55 in 2001. Weigel decided to follow in his father's footsteps after his death.
Weigel graduated in 1987 from Evanston Township High School, where he performed on stage with the Piven Theatre Workshop's Young People's company, which featured such notables as John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Jeremy Piven. He worked summers as an intern for his father at WLS-TV. Weigel continued his education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with a degree in theatre in 1992 after finishing his studies in London.
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