Jim Wicks
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Jim Wicks (born March 9, 1955 in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is a Canadian-American television broadcaster and producer. From 1989 to 2001, he anchored newscasts for ABC, NBC, and PBS affiliated television stations in Miami, Cleveland, St. Louis, and West Palm Beach. Wicks began his television career at CFTO (CTV) in Toronto in 1981. He was anchor and reporter for CBLT (CBC) from 1985 to 1989, and co-anchor of CKY News Winnipeg (CKY-TV) in the early 1990s.
His father, Walter Wicks, was a newspaper photographer who became a CBC network film cameraman in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, the family spent several summers in New York City, where Jim lived while his father taught film studies at New York University. In 1964, the family moved to Accra, Ghana, where Jim lived while his father, on loan from the CBC, was a technical advisor to the fledgling Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. In 1966, the family settled in Mississauga, Ontario.
Wicks is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States, having become an American citizen in December 2005. He is proud of the fact that he scored 100 out of 100 on the U.S. citizenship exam.
Wicks lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, and is executive producer of Wicks Films, an independent production company that produces documentaries and television programming.
