Rafer Weigel KUSI Bio Wiki Age Height Wife Salary and Net Worth
Rafer Weigel is a popular American broadcast journalist currently working as a news anchor and reporter at KUSI-TV in San Diego since November 2022. Before, Rafer worked as a morning weekday news anchor and general assignment reporter at WFLD-Channel 32 in Chicago. Prior to that, Rafer served as the weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago, the sports anchor at CNN HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade, and also an actor.
His first on-camera journalism tenure came in 2005 as a freelance reporter at KUSI for the weekend morning show—doing live remotes at events and reporting breaking news. Rafer proceeded to work nights at The L.A. Times and mornings for the TV station. In February 2006, Rafer became hired by the CBS-owned and operated station KOVR in Sacramento as a general assignment reporter, reporting breaking news, politics, and national stories such as the Lake Tahoe wildfires and wayward whales Delta and Dawn.
In February 2008, Rafer joined the cast of the already-successful morning show Morning Express alongside Robin Meade. Rafer and the CNN sports team extensively reported the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In March 2011, Rafer was the new weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLS Channel 7 in Chicago, a station where his dad spent 17 years working as an anchor.
Rafer replaced Ryan Chiaverini, who worked as a co-host of Channel 7’s morning show “Windy City Live,” a role Rafer himself had been under consideration for. In addition, Rafer decided to return to his “news” roots and in October 2014 accepted the anchor role for the 6 pm and 10 pm shows Monday-Friday at the Fox affiliate KTVI, Channel 2 in St. Louis.
Rafer was born onMay 5, 1969, in New Haven, CT, in theUnited States. He is53 years old.Rafer celebrates his birthday on May 5, every year.
He is a man of average stature. Rafer stands at a height of5 ft 7 in(Approx. 1.7 m).
He was born in New Haven, CT, and raised in a journalism household in Evanston, Illinois. Rafer is the son of the Chicago television sportscaster and newspaper columnistTim Weigeland retired WGN Radio news anchorKathy Worthington. Rafer is the grandson of Weigel Broadcasting founder and retired Lawrence Welk radio announcerJohn Jacob Weigel. He has two sisters namedJenniffer Weigel, a retired Chicago television news anchor and published author, andTeddi, who started high school in 2008.
Rafer’s father Tim started his career as a newspaper sportswriter and finally became a popular Chicago sport and news anchor. Tim died of cancer at the age of 55 in 2001. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps following his death.
Rafer is currently engaged toMargie Ellisora Fox 2, St. Louis morning news anchor. Before, Rafer was married toTiffany Weigela photographer. The pair had their first child, sonHeathcliff John Weigel, on November 20, 2009. Rafer later divorced Tiffany.
In 1987, Rafer graduated from Evanston Township High School. Later on, Rafer attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1992, Rafer graduated with a degree in Speech Communication and Journalism.
He is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who came to KUSI in November 2022. He started his television career at KUSI back in 2005. Since then, Rafer has served in major markets across the nation and built a reputation for reporting ground-breaking stories. He received accolades at the St. Louis anchor desk during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and won national notoriety for being the reporter who broke the story that Chicago police would be charging Jussie Smollett alongside staging a fake hate crime.
Following leaving KUSI in 2006, Rafer became the lead general assignment reporter at the CBS-owned and operated station KOVR-TV in Sacramento where Rafer covered wildfires in Lake Tahoe and many elections. In 2008, Rafer moved to Atlanta to work as the sports anchor for CNN/HLN’s “The Morning Express with Robin Meade.” He continued his sports career coming back to his hometown of Chicago in 2011 as a sports anchor/reporter at ABC 7—the station where his late dad, Tim Weigel, an iconic sportscaster ruled the airwaves in the 80s and 90s.
While following in his dad’s footsteps was meaningful, his true passion is news. In 2014, Rafer became the evening news anchor at Fox 2, KTVI-TV in St. Louis where he worked for three years. In 2017, Rafer came back to Windy City as a weekend anchor/reporter and later became the morning news anchor for “Good Day Chicago”.
Some of Rafer’s colleagues at KUSI include:
Elizabeth Alvarez -anchor
Ginger Jeffries -anchor
Anna Laurel -anchor
He is currently engaged toMargie Ellisora Fox 2, St. Louis morning news anchor. Margie came to FOX 2 News in June 1999 as a general assignment reporter.
He earns a satisfying amount from his work as a news anchor and reporter at KUSI-TV in San Diego since November 2022. Rafer’s average salary is$78,877per year.
Rafer gets his wealth from his work as a news anchor and reporter at KUSI-TV in San Diego since November 2022. Therefore, Rafer has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Rafer’s estimated net worth s$678,767.
Rafer is a 53-year-old who was born onMay 5, 1969, in New Haven, CT, in the United States. Rafer celebrates his birthday on May 5, every year.
Rafer works as a news anchor and reporter at KUSI-TV in San Diego since November 2022. Before, Rafer worked as a morning weekday news anchor and general assignment reporter at WFLD-Channel 32 in Chicago. Prior to that, Rafer served as the weekend sports anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago, the sports anchor at CNN HLN’s Morning Express with Robin Meade, and also an actor.
