I always thoughtNick Charlesdid a good job with CNN back in the early days of cable in the '80s. I wondered about his ethnicity, thinking maybe he was Italian but the obit on ESPN says his real name was Nicholas Charles Nickeas, so he must have been Greek. He died after battling bladder cancer for two years.
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