


The 1987 CHHSW graduate is now an anchor for Fox News Channel." "While several of Hamson's proteges have gone on to successful broadcasting careers, the one viewers will recognize best is Rick Folbaum.
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"He's got it all on tape", Courier-Post, October 22, 2003, backed up by the Internet Archive as of March 7, 2016. In March 2020, Folbaum was diagnosed with and recovered from coronavirus. Rick and his wife Kelcey (née Kintner) have five children: Dylan, Summer, Chase, Harlowe, and Cash. Īside from his anchoring duties, he was also a recurrent guest-panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld prior to its cancellation. In September 2019, Folbaum was named the evening anchor of WGCL, the CBS affiliate in Atlanta. Since November 2018, he worked as a freelance anchor for CNN International. In August 2013, Folbaum joined WFOR, the CBS station in Miami, as an evening anchor.

In 2009, he returned to Fox News as a weekday substitute anchor and regularly hosted the Saturday 6:00 p.m. Known for his years at Fox News as an anchor of Fox News Live, the Fox Report Saturdays, and as a substitute anchor for Shepard Smith's programs, Folbaum joined in 1996 as one of the original anchors and correspondents, and was the network's London-based correspondent from 1998 to 2000, covering news stories across Europe and the Middle East.įolbaum was co-anchor for the FOX flagship station in New York City, WNYW, for Fox 5 News at 6. Career įolbaum began his career as a part of the launch team of MSNBC as a writer and also worked in radio at WOR-AM in New York City. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. He graduated from Syracuse University's S. Folbaum grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and graduated in 1987 from Cherry Hill High School West.
