Renee Chenault-Fattah

Renee Chenault-Fattah (born October 12, 1957) is the co-anchor of the weekday edition of NBC 10 News at 11 p.m..

She joined the station in 1991 and served as an anchor and a reporter. After a few years anchoring the now defunct noon broadcast with Tim Lake, she was promoted to the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news in March of 1995. In 2003, Lake joined Chenault as co-anchor at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m., after she had spent 8 years co-anchoring newscasts at 6 and 11 with first, Ken Matz, then with Larry Mendte (Chenault and Mendte first were together at 11). She is married to U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah of the 2nd Congressional District.

Chenault is one of several minority females to have anchored newscasts in Philadelphia. The others include former KYW-TV Eyewitness News anchors Beverly Williams, and Alycia Lane and WPVI-TV Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury. Chenault and KYW's Susan Barnett are also the only female news co-anchors at 6 & 11 since Jim Gardner at WPVI-TV anchors on his own. They both also have one thing in common: they have co-anchored newscasts with Larry Mendte.

For nearly 10 years, until Alycia Lane came in at KYW-TV, Chenault was the only female news anchor in Philadelphia weeknights at 6 and 11.

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