Bob Sellers

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Bob Sellers is a former news co-anchor for WSMV's 6 and 10 o'clock broadcasts. He was previously an anchor for WTTG's Fox 5 Morning News. He also was an anchor for Fox News Channel. Joining the network in 2002, he regularly hosted weekend hours of Fox News Live and frequently anchored Fox News Live programs during the week. He also reported from Iraq during June 2003.

Prior to Fox News, Sellers worked at CNBC anchoring Market Watch and Today's Business, in addition to filling in as anchor on programs such as Squawk Box and Power Lunch. Additionally, he worked for KING-TV in Seattle, WA, KENS-TV in San Antonio, TX, and KTVL in Medford, OR. He joined WTTG Fox 5 Morning News in 2006 where he served as a morning news anchor until July 2008.

He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 31st round of the 1973 draft, but did not sign. Instead, Sellers attended and graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor of arts in Government and Foreign Affairs. He attended the university on a baseball scholarship. He has recently served on the Board of Advisors for the Media Studies Department.

Sellers is currently Senior Investment Consultant for Gary Goldberg Financial Services, a boutique money management company headquartered in Suffern, New York. He has appeared as a markets guest on CNBC and has published numerous columns in various publications, most of them related to business. He has written columns for "Gear" and "Success" magazines and has placed work in newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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 Bob is an Emmy-winning TV journalist with twenty years experience, including nine at the national level with CNBC and Fox News Channel. He is also the author of Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today’s Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success. The book is based on a series of interviews with leading business figures about mistakes they made and the lessons or opportunities they gained as a result of those missteps. He has also launched the website/blog http://www.kidsoffthecuff.com, a modern version of "kids say the darndest things," based upon his "Conversations with my daughters."
 Bob has written pieces for HuffingtonPost.com and published columns in Success and Gear magazines. He is also on the Board of Advisors in the University of Virginia’s Media Studies Department.
 A former stock broker an Investment Adivsor, Bob anchored at CNBC during the dot.com era, interviewing business leaders such as Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Suze Orman, Peter Lynch and many others. At FNC, Bob anchored Fox News Live and reported live from the field on events such as the D.C. Sniper crisis and from Baghdad in 2003 after American forces toppled Saddam Hussein. He has interviewed world leaders from Benjamin Netanyahu to Mikhail Gorbachev.
 At the local level, Bob won an Emmy in the category of Breaking News for his coverage of historic floods in Nashville in May 2010 (where he worked as 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. anchor for NBC affiliate WSMV-TV). (www.bobsellers.net) He has also worked in Washington, DC, Seattle, San Antonio and Medford, Oregon. He and his wife Anna have twin daughters and live in Nashville.


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