Brian Bolter is a television news anchor and reporter. Bolter hopscotched across the country working in several TV markets as he gained experience. He has worked at KHBS-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. With a population of 86,209 in 2010, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents which encompasses the Arkansas...

, KARK-TV

KARK-TV

KARK, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Arkansas that is licensed to Little Rock. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the station is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV and the two share studios on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown Little Rock one block...

 in Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...

, KHQA-TV

KHQA-TV

KHQA-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Tri-States area of Western Illinois, Northeastern Missouri, and extreme Southeastern Iowa. It is licensed to Hannibal, Missouri. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter northeast of Quincy, Illinois...

 in Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, known as Illinois' "Gem City," is a river city along the Mississippi River and the county seat of Adams County. As of the 2010 census the city held a population of 40,633. The city anchors its own micropolitan area and is the economic and regional hub of West-central Illinois, catering a...

, and at WBAL-TV

WBAL-TV

WBAL-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station in Baltimore, Maryland. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11. It is one of the flagship stations of Hearst Television, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, which also owns sister radio stations WBAL and...

 in Baltimore, Maryland. Currently, Bolter is the principal anchor at WTTG-TV in Washington, DC.

Bolter co-anchors the flagship 10pm newscast for WTTG-TV with Shawn Yancy

Shawn Yancy

Shawn Yancy is a News Anchor for WTTG-TV, FOX 5 News in Washington, DC. Yancy co-anchors FOX 5 News at 5pm & 10pm and contributes to the Newsedge @ 6 and 11pm. Yancy previously co-anchored FOX 5 Morning News from 5 to 7am. She joined the FOX 5 News team in September 2001...

. Bolter was the original anchor along with Tracey Neale when WTTG launched Fox 5 News at 5. He launched the Fox 5 Newsedge at 11 as a solo anchor in July 2006. In September 2007, he launched the Fox 5 Newsedge at 6 as a solo anchor. Currently, Bolter anchors two hours of news on The Newsedge at 6 and 11 pm and is co-anchor of Fox 5 News at 10.

According to NATAS-DC records, Bolter has won two local Emmy Awards, one for the Mid-Atlantic's Best Live Reporter. He also has three regional Edward R. Murrow awards including Best Newscast in 2007 and 2008. Many viewers in the Washington television market remember Bolter as the TV personality who had Lasik

LASIK

LASIK or Lasik , commonly referred to simply as laser eye surgery, is a type of refractive surgery for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism...

 surgery done live during a newscast on Fox 5 News at 10. In 2006, Washingtonian Magazine named Bolter one of Washington's Best Dressed. Bolter's voice also appeared, uncredited, in a mock breaking news scene in the 2006 movie The Sentinel

The Sentinel (2006 film)

The Sentinel is a 2006 action thriller film about a veteran United States Secret Service bodyguard who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins...

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Bolter and his wife Lisa own the Red Red Wine Bar in Annapolis, MD.

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