Emmy-winning anchor Chris Gailus is the host of Global BC’s
News Hour, winner of back-to-back Gemini Awards as Best Newscast Large Market. Chris was also nominated for a Gemini Award for Best News Anchor. He returned to Canada
and the Global News family on May 1, 2006. Prior to that, he was host and
anchor of the morning program “Good Day New York” at WNYW, the Fox news
affiliate in New York City
and at the time the most-watched, locally-produced morning show in the
northeast.
Chris has more than 20 years of experience in broadcast journalism and
is a proud graduate of the Broadcast Journalism Program at Mount Royal University
in Calgary
where he made the Dean's List for Academic Excellence and played basketball
with a sports scholarship. After graduating in 1989, he worked in Lethbridge, Alberta
as a reporter covering municipal and agricultural issues before moving up to
news anchor and eventually winning a CanPro Award as anchor of the "Best
Small Market Newscast." He returned to Calgary in 1992 as reporter and anchor of
CFCN's weekend newscast before moving on to Global Calgary as their main news
anchor.
In 2000, Chris moved to the US
to be the anchor of the morning newscast at the ABC affiliate in Dallas, Texas.
He covered major stories such as the crash of the space shuttle Columbia and the subsequent investigation, the impact of
September 11th on Dallas, and the deployment of
US troops from Fort Hood at the outbreak of the war in Iraq. He was
nominated for a "Katy Award”, the highest honour in Texas journalism.
In 2003, he moved on to anchor Good Day New York at WNYW where he
received a career highlight, winning a New York Regional Emmy Award for
"Best Morning Newscast" in 2005.
Outside of the newsroom, Chris actively supports the BC Children's
Hospital, Canuck Place Children's Hospice, and organizations that support
research and treatment of Diabetes and Arthritis. Chris is also an advocate for
literacy and actively supports “Room to Read,” an organization that builds
libraries and schools in developing countries. Chris and his wife also support the adoption of animals.
Chris loves all sports including rugby, football, basketball, golf,
mountain biking and snowboarding in the winter. He and his wife also enjoy
traveling whenever they find the time and consider London,
New York and Mexico as their favourite
destinations.
Chris is married to Jane and recently welcomed their new son William.
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