5/16/2023 0 Comments Female news anchor![]() In 1987, Sullivan moved to CBS News to become co-anchor with Harry Smith of CBS This Morning. She was an in-studio anchor for ABC Olympic broadcasts during the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo, and later that year during the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles, California. In 1984, Sullivan became the first woman to anchor a telecast of the Olympic Games. ![]() She broadcast live from Buckingham Palace in London to report the list of royal weddings of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. During the 1980s, Sullivan reported live from party conference, summit, state funerals and the Olympic Games. Moving to ABC News, she debuted ABC World News This Morning with co-anchor Steve Bell in 1982, substituted for co-host Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, anchored ABC World News Saturday, and started the first national-network health program, The Health Show. In 1980, Sullivan was picked by Ted Turner to help launch his Cable News Network. She became the first American woman to broadcast live from the Soviet Union when she went there to interview Russian cosmonauts for the Soviet Pre-Olympic festival. Starting her career in local television, she became the first female anchor hired by CNN in 1980. She was born in Pasadena, California and attended Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California. She was hired as a news anchor for the newly founded news channel CNN in 1980, when she was 27 years old, and she has also worked for ABC News, CBS News, and The Huffington Post. ![]() Kathleen Sullivan is an American television journalist.
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