Channel Surfing
by Laura Nachman
Bucks County Courier Times
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1/17/01

            It will be a family affair when NBC-10 anchor Renee Chenault and U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah get married April 7, as the wedding party will primarily be made up of the bride and groom’s children.  Fattah’s grown children from his first marriage, Frances, 25, and Chip, 18, will be maid of honor and best man respectively, and Chenault’s daughter, Cameron, 2, will be the flower girl; assisted by former Channel 10 sports anchor Ron Burke’s daughters Spencer and Madison.  Burke, and his wife Gloria were Cameron’s caregivers before Chenault’s parents moved to East Falls over the summer where Chenault and Fattah reside.  Cameron was born in September 1998 after being conceived through artificial insemination.  Around 250 people are expected to attend the ceremony that will take place at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Philadelphia.  This is the second marriage for both Chenault, 43, and Fattah, 44, who began dating in January 1999 and were engaged Valentine’s Day of 2000.  They met while Chenault was covering the Democratic National Convention for Channel 10 in New York City in 1992.

            In other NBC-10 news, weekend anchor and Bucks County resident, Lisa Mishler is expecting her first child in May.  Mishler, a graduate of Pennsbury High School and Boston University, joined her hometown station in March of 1999 after stops in Lancaster, PA, Orlando, FL, and Boston, MA. And weekday morning anchor Monique Braxton is expecting her first child in April. Braxton’s husband, John Fordham, is an aide to John Street. 

More news is good news for NBC-10, as a 10 A.M. newscast debuts Monday, January 22 with Steve Levy, Monique Braxton, and Bill Henley.  The syndicated “House Calls” goes off the air, and Cybill Shepherd’s struggling “Men are from Mars, Women are From Venus” moves to 11 A.M. 

            Newsroom insiders say Fox-Philadelphia’s “Eagles Game Day Live” reporter Sarah Caldwell is being mentioned for the weekend weather anchor position vacated by Rob Guarino who is now the weekday weather anchor.  Caldwell, who began at Fox as an intern, also served as a traffic reporter.  Meanwhile, former Fox-Philadelphia weatherman Frank Cariello has surfaced as a news anchor for KYW news radio.  

Weather watchers don’t have to wait for updates, as KYW is providing a 24-hour weather line.  The number is 215-238-4767. 

And Doylestown-born Marcus Errico should change the spelling of his name to “E!rrico,” as the local product is the news director of the E! web site, E! Online.  Errico, who grew up in Stockton, N.J., was part of the original editorial team that launched the site in 1996.

            Errico, who has a BA in English from Haverford college and an MA in Print Journalism from USC, oversees the E! Online news bureaus in Los Angeles and New York, and has appeared as an “entertainment expert” on the Fox News Channel, Inside Edition, and more.

Posted January 17, 2001