Name Rob Powers Role Sportscaster | Spouse Debbie Powers Alma mater Holy Name High School | |
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Occupation Sportscaster and television journalist Profiles | ||
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Rob Powers (born 1965) is an American television news anchor and journalist based at WEWS-TV, the Scripps-owned ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Powers was named co-anchor of WEWS's 4 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts (the former titled The NOW Cleveland) in August 2016. Prior to joining WEWS, Powers was a sportscaster for several major-market television stations, including ABC flagship WABC-TV.
Career
Powers' early television assignments included stops in Binghamton, New York, and Indianapolis. He was later named sports director and 5:30 p.m. news anchor for WTVG, an ABC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio (at the time also directly owned by the network). While in Toledo, Powers earned four Emmy Awards. When not anchoring sports, he was the play-by-play voice announcer for University of Toledo football and basketball, as well as the city's minor league baseball team, the Toledo Mud Hens.
After his stay at WTVG, he then became the weekday evening and Saturday morning sports anchor for WABC-TV, ABC's flagship station in New York City.
In July 28, 2016, Powers announced via Facebook that he will leave WABC-TV on July 29 to his hometown, Cleveland, for a news anchor job at ABC affiliate WEWS-TV and to also reunite with his family in Cleveland.