Murrow Award, an Emmy award and the New York Associated Press State Broadcasters Award. Viewer e-mail messages replaced the news crawl that usually appears on the bottom of the screen.Ĭafferty has earned many distinctions in his career, including the Edward R. In October 2006, Cafferty hosted a five-part miniseries on CNN titled Broken Government detailing problems with the two political parties, government bureaucracy and the federal court system.

On The Cafferty File, his nightly segment on The Situation Room, he offers commentary and personal opinions. Cafferty also formerly co-anchored CNN's weekday morning broadcast, American Morning. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room, CNN's weekday afternoon newscast. In 1992 Cafferty moved to then-independent station WPIX, and co-anchored its 10:00 p.m. news and a short-lived late night show, Newsline New York. Cafferty left WNBC-TV around Thanksgiving 1989 due to a contract dispute and at Christmas, he joined rival WNYW, where he anchored the Fox flagship station's 7:00 p.m. Their show was reformatted as Live at Five, and its mix of news, features and celebrity interviews would prove successful for much of the 1980s. In 1979 Cafferty became co-anchor of WNBC-TV's 5:00 p.m weeknight newscast, and the following year he was joined on the program by Sue Simmons. In 1977, Cafferty moved to WNBC-TV in New York City as a weekend, then evening co-anchor on the station's 6:00 p.m. In 1974 he became the weeknight co-anchor, and later news director, at WHO-TV in Des Moines, Iowa. He later moved to KCRL-TV, where he served as the station's production manager, and followed that with daytime talk show Cafferty & Company on WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.

Career Ĭafferty started his career in Reno, Nevada in 1961, as a children's show host at KOLO-TV. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room. Jack Cafferty (born December 14, 1942) is a former CNN commentator and occasional host of specials.

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