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Pat Battle PR shot
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Patricia A. Battle Born 1951 is WNBC-TV's New Jersey Bureau Reporter, Saturday Today in New York co-anchor, and occasional fill in anchor. Battle joined WNBC in 1996 as a general assignment reporter, with a focus on New Jersey. Prior to her tenure at WNBC, she covered New Jersey for WCBS-TV as well as WCAU-TV Philadelphia, and hosted public affairs programs for New Jersey Network. However, Battle's journalism career began with in print. She got her start as a reporter for the Asbury Park Press in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Facts about Pat Battle

  • She attended the University of Maryland, College Park, School of Journalism
  • She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
  • She is an avid golfer.
  • She won a 2005 New York Emmy Award for Political Programming for her work on the presidental primary edition of What Matters. [1]
  • While reporting a shark attack in New Jersey on Live at Five, listeners of the Opie and Anthony radio show interrupted her broadcast as part of their "Assault on the Media" campaign. Battle ignored them and WNBC did not have a live shot after her package completed, which is standard procedure when deranged persons attempt to disrupt live shots. Since then she has become a popular reference on this radio program: her name is used for such plays on words such as: "Pat Battlefield 2", "You sunk my Pat Battleship!", "Pat Battlestar Galactica", and "Pat Battle for the Planet of the Apes."
  • Pat Battle's name has recently been seen on a billboard in Orlando erected by Opie and Anthony fans stating that the "O&A Army" has won the "Pat Battle of O-Town (which is a commonly used abbreviation for the city of Orlando, Florida by local radio jocks)"
  • On an August episode of the CBS show Big Brother, CBS Reporter Julie Chen unknowingly referred to the forthcoming segment as "The ultimate Pat Battle for power" after a stage hand reprogrammed Chen's Teleprompter script.
  • Pat Battle is an often heard war cry of pests.
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