Greg Kelly Bio, Age, Family, Wife, Kids, News Max, Salary, Net Worth
Kelly joined Newsmax TV in January 2020 and anchors Greg Kelly Reports, a nightly news program that airs at 7 p.m. ET every weekday night. The program also re-broadcast weekdays at 10 p.m. ET.
Prior to joining Mediamax, Greg was a host of Good Day New York from 2008 through June 2012 when he was promoted to the 6 and 10 pm news, on Fox 5. David Price was announced as his replacement. On January 24, 2013, it was announced that Dave Price would be leaving Good Day New York and Kelly would be returning. On September 28, 2017, Kelly announced he was leaving Good Day New York, and the next day, Friday, September 29, 2017, he appeared for the last time. He was replaced by former WABC-TV anchor Lori Stokes. On Kelly’s last appearance on the Fox 5 show he said: ‘There are some other things I’m excited about doing and I am very, very grateful for all the time I’ve had here and for all the people who make this show possible.’
Kelly was also an anchor for the morning news program at ABC affiliate WIVT-TV in Binghamton, New York, where he secured an exclusive interview with then U.S. President Bill Clinton. He also worked as a political reporter for NY1 in New York City, where he covered the 2001 mayoral campaign, and provided extensive live reports from Ground Zero on September 11, 2001.
In 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was an embedded reporter with the United States Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade. He received a minor shrapnel wound to the face when a mortar round exploded near him while crossing the Euphrates River with the 3rd Infantry Division on March 31, 2003.
Kelly was the first television journalist to broadcast live pictures of U.S. military forces reaching Baghdad on April 5, 2003. Information Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, a.k.a. Baghdad Bob, was shown at one of his press conferences saying that Coalition forces were not in Baghdad, Fox News was showing, in split screen, reporter Kelly riding a tank through the city. Two days later, he captured another exclusive during the storming of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace.
