Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Battista was an American journalist and a prominent newscaster on CNN.
15 Facts About Bobbie Battista
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On November 17,2006, Bobbie Battista returned to WRAL to co-anchor a special "reunion" newscast celebrating the station's 50th anniversary.
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Bobbie Battista anchored CNN WorldDay, CNN NewsDay, CNN NewsHour, CNN Daybreak, CNN PrimeNews, and CNN WorldNews.
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Bobbie Battista was very popular in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany, while she anchored HLN.
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In 1998, Bobbie Battista was named as the host of the first multi-platform interactive talk show, TalkBack Live, which ran for an hour on weekday afternoons.
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Bobbie Battista left CNN after the merger of CNN's parent company, Time Warner, with America Online in 2001.
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Bobbie Battista joined her husband John Brimelow's firm, Atamira Communications, and provided strategic counsel to a wide range of Fortune 500 companies.
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Bobbie Battista remained active in television and was a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
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In 2009, Bobbie Battista made periodic, part-time contributions to ONN; the Onion News Network, her first report was released in February 2009.
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Bobbie Battista, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia, was in the process of starting a new video production company focusing on reality television programming.
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In 2014, Bobbie Battista began hosting "On the Story" on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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Bobbie Battista wrote and produced a series on youth crime involving five stations, and was the recipient of a Peabody Awards for her efforts.
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Bobbie Battista was nominated for an On Cable magazine award for Outstanding News Personality in 1984.
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Bobbie Battista was married to John Brimelow and had a stepdaughter.
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Bobbie Battista died of cervical cancer on March 3,2020, at the age of 67.