Anchors
Chris Wragge
Chris Wragge serves as co-anchor of CBS 2 News at 5 and 11PM weekdays along Kristine Johnson. He also serves as co-anchor of the Saturday edition of THE EARLY SHOW.
Wragge joined WCBS-TV in 2004 as the 5PM, 6PM, and 11PM weekday sports anchor and also hosted "Sunday Blitz presented by State Farm," an NFL pre-game show highlighting the upcoming Jets and Giants Kick-offs. He also hosted "Sports Sunday presented by Nissan" during the NFL season, and earned himself a NY State Broadcasters Association Award for his coverage of October Baseball in NY for the 2006 season. Wragge traveled with the New York Jets and Giants during the NFL Football Season, and during the NFL Pre-Season he joined CBS Sports' Ian Eagle and former Jets Linebacker Greg Buttle for CBS Sports' production of the Jets Pre-Season games. Wragge also served as the game's half-time host. When the NFL Season concluded, Wragge took his "show's on the road" to Yankees and Mets Spring Training for the month of February. Wragge's duties at CBS also extended to CBS Sports, where he was seen as one of the hosts of the AT&T CBS Sportsdesk. Prior to arriving at CBS, Wragge came from KPRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Houston and NBC Sports. Wragge spent four years roaming the sidelines for NBC Sports where he covered the NBA and NBA playoffs for two years working alongside play-by-play men Marv Albert, Tom Hammond and Mike Breen. Wragge also covered the WNBA for two seasons, hosting the WNBA finals in 2002. He also served as a host for NBC's Sun America Sportsdesk from 2002-2004.
Wragge is proud to rank his role in NBC's Olympic Coverage from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City as one of the highlights of his career to date. In Salt Lake City, he joined Katie Couric and Jim McKay on the Opening Ceremony broadcast, one of the highest-rated ceremonies in the history of the Olympics. While there, he interviewed such Olympic heroes as Picabo Street, Cammy Granato, and Apollo Ohno. Wragge also served as the Short Track Speed Skating reporter, and as a reporter for the Olympic Sports desk.
Wragge's extensive sports coverage for NBC also included sideline duties for Notre Dame football, the New Year's Day Gator Bowl, and the Professional Bull Rider's Association. In 2003 and 2004, Wragge joined NBC's golf coverage at the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational.
In December 2002, Wragge joined the USA Network as an on-site reporter for "PGA Tour Sunday," part of the USA Network's extensive professional golf coverage. 2006 was Wragge's 4th and final season with the show, an experience that allowed him to cover four Masters', four U.S. Open's, four PGA Championships, a Ryder Cup and over 75 other PGA Tour stops.
Wragge is no stranger to national television audiences after a career that has taken him to the red carpets of the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and major movie premieres as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 1996-2000. Wragge has also worked for The Travel Channel, DIY Network, HGTV, WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Wragge attended Mahwah High School in Bergen County. He received a football scholarship to the University of New Hampshire and now works for the station he grew up watching. Wragge resides in Manhattan.