Pat Battle
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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.
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- Her husband is WABC-TV reporter Anthony Johnson.
- 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 presidential primary edition of What Matters. [1]
- While reporting a shark attack in New Jersey on Live at Five, a listener of the Opie and Anthony 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 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".
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