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Nick Charles, a Chicago native who became the first sports anchor at CNN, died today, the cable news station reported. He was 64.
Charles, who had been suffering from bladder cancer since 2009, died at his New Mexico home, according to CNN. He had been born Nicholas Charles Nickeas in Chicago in 1946 and, after graduating from Columbia College in Chicago, he started his sportscasting career in 1970 at WICS in Springfield, Ill.
He later worked at stations in Baltimore and Washington before joining CNN on June 1, 1980.
Charles, who had been suffering from bladder cancer since 2009, died at his New Mexico home, according to CNN. He had been born Nicholas Charles Nickeas in Chicago in 1946 and, after graduating from Columbia College in Chicago, he started his sportscasting career in 1970 at WICS in Springfield, Ill.
He later worked at stations in Baltimore and Washington before joining CNN on June 1, 1980.
