Chuck Henry

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Chuck Henry (born January 1, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is a popular Los Angeles television personality and an Emmy Award-winning newscaster who hosted his first and only game show Now You See It (1989, CBS), and has over 35 years of news experience. Before anchoring at KNBC, he worked at KABC-TV for 11 years, where he served as reporter, anchor and director.

Henry was once nearly killed in the field filing a report about California forest fires in 2004. Although the newspeople were told to leave by the fire department, the NBC team decided to stay longer and were soon surrounded by flames. Their van was completely engulfed and lost to the fire and the team had to be rescued by the LAFD. Chuck Henry was later seen on air crying about the situation referring to the newsvan as a "Stupid truck, full of equipment." This incident was parodied on a 2005 King of the Hill episode Gone with the Windstorm.

Henry is best-known for hosting Travel Cafe., a travel program in which he flies all around the world. It was soon after that he joined the NBC4 staff in early 1994, just several days after his 48th Birthday, where he anchors the 6 P.M. news every night. He also serves as Executive Producer/host of another immensely-popular magazine series, Travel Cafe, in Burbank. "Travel Cafe"' was the first local (Los Angeles) TV series produced in HDTV and is also seen on the Travel Channel.

As the winner of 12 Emmies for anchoring the news and working behind the scenes, his trademark catchphrase "I'm Chuck Henry, so long everybody," had developed his popularity in news, magazines, or TV shows that he hosts.

Henry has requested that the episodes of Now You See It that he hosted not be rebroadcast. GSN (formerly Game Show Network) has complied with this request. According to a web site about the show, Henry was not comfortable with how he performed on the show and it did the same for the unsold pilot Beat The Odds.