Deborah Roberts: What does Al Roker’s wife do for a living?
American weather presenter, journalist, television host, and author Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. was born on August 20, 1954. He currently presents 3rd Hour Today on NBC and is the show’s weather anchor. His American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238 is inactive.
From 1974 to 1976, Roker worked as a weather anchor for CBS affiliate WHEN-TV (now WTVH) in Syracuse, New York, while attending SUNY Oswego. He also DJ’d at WNYO, the campus radio station, while at Oswego. Following the completion of his studies, Roker relocated to Washington, D.C. and accepted a weathercasting position at independent station WTTG, which was owned by Metromedia at the time, where he stayed for the majority of the next two years.
Roker’s NBC career began in 1978, when he was hired at WKYC in Cleveland, an NBC owned-and-operated station at the time. Roker was promoted to the network’s flagship station, WNBC-TV in his hometown, after five years in Cleveland. Roker returned to New York City as a weekend weathercaster in late 1983, and within eight months had become the station’s regular weeknight weathercaster. Roker took over for Dr. Frank Field, a 27-year WNBC-TV veteran who left the network due to a contract dispute. From 1983 to 1996, Roker was a regular substitute for NBC News forecaster Joe Witte on NBC News at Sunrise, and from 1990 to 1995, he filled in for Willard Scott, Bryant Gumbel, and Matt Lauer on the Today Show. He took over as host of The Al Roker Show, a weekend talk show on CNBC, in 1995.
Deborah Roberts: What does Al Roker’s wife do for a living?
Roker married WNBC producer Alice Bell in December 1984, after an earlier marriage and divorce. In 1987, he and Bell adopted their daughter Courtney as an infant. Roker and Bell eventually divorced. On September 16, 1995, Roker married TV journalist Deborah Roberts. They have a daughter named Leila (born November 17, 1998) and a son named Nicholas (born July 18, 2002).
Roberts began her career in 1982 at WTVM, a local television station in Columbus, Georgia, and later at WBIR, a local television station in Knoxville, Tennessee. She worked as the bureau chief/NASA field reporter/weekend news co-anchor at WFTV, a local television station in Orlando, Florida, from 1987 to 1990. She began her career at NBC News as a general assignment reporter in 1990 and later became a correspondent for Dateline NBC, an NBC News newsmagazine program.
