Ron Corning is an American

United States

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 television

Television

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 host

News presenter

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 at the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate WFAA in Dallas, Texas. He co-anchors the station's morning newscast, Daybreak, and is solo anchor of Midday, the station's one-hour noon newscast.

Corning was raised in Calais, Maine

Calais, Maine

Calais is a city in Washington County, Maine, United States. The city has three United States border crossings or also known as a Port of entry with the busiest being on the St. Croix River bordering St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada...

, and graduated from Wheaton College

Wheaton College (Massachusetts)

Wheaton College is a four-year, private liberal arts college with an approximate student body of 1,550. Wheaton's residential campus is located in Norton, Massachusetts, between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1834 as a female seminary, it is one of the oldest...

 in Massachusetts. He began his broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter for WDTV

WDTV

WDTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for North-Central West Virginia licensed to Weston. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 5 from a transmitter in an unincorporated area between Clarksburg and Arlington. The station can also be seen on Comcast, Suddenlink, and...

, the CBS

CBS

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 affiliate in Bridgeport, West Virginia

Bridgeport, West Virginia

Bridgeport is a city in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 7,306 at the 2000 census.The town of Bridgeport had its beginning in pre-Revolutionary War times. In 1764, John Simpson entered the area and gave his name to Simpson Creek. Bridgeport was chartered in 1816....

, and then as weekend anchor and reporter at one of WDTV's rivals, WBOY, the NBC

NBC

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 affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area...

. He next spent some time performing the same duties at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio

Steubenville, Ohio

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, before moving on to his first major market job at KTVI

KTVI

KTVI, virtual channel 2, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the St. Louis, Missouri, designated market area. The station is owned by Local TV LLC, the media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, under a local marketing agreement with Tribune-owned CW affiliate KPLR...

, the Fox station in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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. From there he went on to the Fox affiliate in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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, KCPQ

KCPQ

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.

Corning made his jump to the national stage as host and news anchor of The Daily Buzz

The Daily Buzz

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, an American

United States

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 breakfast television show syndicated to affiliates of UPN

UPN

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 and The WB (now joined as The CW) across the U.S.

From 2004 to August 2006, Corning co-anchored World News Now

World News Now

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and ABC World News This Morning

ABC World News This Morning

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. In 2006 while at ABC News People Magazine' named Corning one of the 'Most Beautiful People'. That same year MSN named him one of 'The Best Anchors' http://tv.msn.com/tv/bestworstnewscasters-1/

Corning joined Jodi Applegate

Jodi Applegate

Jodi Applegate is an American news anchor for WPIX New York. She formerly anchored WNYW-TV's Good Day New York and News 12 Long Island.-Life and career:...

 as co-anchor of Good Day New York

Good Day New York

Good Day New York is a weekday morning news and entertainment feature show which airs on WNYW, the New York City flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company...

at the flagship FOX owned affiliate WNYW on August 28, 2006. His contract was not renewed while on vacation in April 2008 to make room for Fox News Channel correspondent Greg Kelly, son of NY Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

On September 17, 2008, Applegate was also released from the station. The two were reunited in November 2009 at Cablevision's News 12 Long Island as evening anchor team. Applegate left News 12 in October 2010.

In April 2011 Corning replaced Chris Flanagan as co-host of WFAA's Daybreak.

External links

• Ron Corning guest stars in the satiric web series Lester & Charlie