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CNN anchor dies
By Diana Cowan

2011-06-27

Nick Charles loses his battle with cancer

Veteran CNN anchor Nick Charles has died. The longtime sportscaster lost his battle with bladder cancer on Saturday at the age of 64.

“As a journalist and sports personality, Nick Charles helped put CNN on the map in its early days,” CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton said in a statement. “He brought intelligence, style and heart to his work — qualities that translated to our company and inspired those of us who were fortunate to work alongside him. His passing is a loss to CNN, to the sports world and to the fans and friends everywhere who were with him to the end of his extraordinary life. Like them, our thoughts today are of Nick and with his family.”

Charles was one of CNN’s first on-air personalities, relays The Hollywood Reporter, joining the now-famous news channel in 1980 as the host of CNN Sports Tonight with Fred Hickman. He also covered The Goodwill Games throughout the late ‘80s and ‘90s, as well as sporting events such as the Super Bowl, the Olympics and the Kentucky Derby.

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