- Magee Hickey
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Magee Hickey (born June 12, 1955) is a reporter for WPIX in New York City.
Hickey attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, an elite, all-girls school in Manhattan, before graduating from Brown University in 1977.
She started her news career in 1979 as an anchor at WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. She moved to New York in 1982 to report at WNEW-TV (later WNYW-TV)[1] and later at WABC-TV Eyewitness News. She also worked several years as a reporter and anchor for WNBC-TV's "Weekend Today in New York". She moved to WCBS-TV in 1994 as a reporter and morning anchor before being fired in October 1996 with six on-air colleagues, wasin an attempt to boost ratings.[2]
She has also done work for "She-TV" on the Discovery Channel and hosted "Parent to Parent"[3] and "Real Women" on Cablevision's MetroGuide Channel.
After 9/11, she joined WNBC-TV (NBC 4) in New York City, where she worked as a correspondent from 2002-2003.[4] She returned to WCBS in January 2003. In May 2011, she was informed by WCBS that her contract, which was due to expire in July, would not be renewed.[5]
As of September 2011, Hickey is a reporter for WPIX news.
In 1983, she married S. Richolson Salembier [1] with whom she has two daughters.
References
- ^ a b "Magee Hickey Wed to S. R. Salembier". New York Times. May 22, 1983. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/style/magee-hickey-wed-to-sr-salembier.html. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ Huff, Richard (September 29, 2006). "10 Years Later, Hickey's Fired Up". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2006/09/29/2006-09-29_10_years_later__hickey_s_fir.html. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "Show for Magee". New York Daily News. April 8, 1999. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1999/04/08/1999-04-08_fighting_in_serbia_remains_b.html. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "Here's a twist". New York Daily News. January 31, 2003. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2003/01/31/2003-01-31_inner_tube.html. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
- ^ "Magee Hickey and WCBS/Ch. 2 Part Ways". New York Daily News. May 18, 2011. http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/showandtell/2011/05/magee-hickey-and-wcbsch-2-part-ways. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
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- American television personalities
- New York television reporters
- American people of Irish descent
- Living people
- 1955 births
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