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Al Roker bio: net worth, age, height, weight, wife, kids, wiki

Al Roker

Al Roker bio: net worth, age, height, weight, wife, kids, wiki.

Al Roker is a well-known American journalist and television host. He is presently the weather anchor for Today on NBC. Rocker is also a writer and an actor. He has spent a significant amount of time working for NBC. He is also a co-host of 3rd Hour Today. Today Plaza was renamed Rockefeller Plaza in his honour.

Al Roker Biography & Profile Summary

Real NameAlbert Lincoln Roker Jr.
Tag NameAl Roker
GenderMale
Profession(s)Journalist, Television personality, Actor, and Author
NationalityAmerican
BirthplaceQueens, New York, United States
Birth Day20-Aug-54
Age as in 202369 years old
Heights1.73 m
Height(s) Feet5 feet and 8 inches
Heights in cm173 cm
Weight78 kg
Weight(s) in pound171 pounds
Marital ConditionMarried
SpouseDeborah Roberts(m. 1995),Alice Bell(m. 19841994)
Daughter and SonYes (Leila Roker, Nicholas Albert Roker)
Net Worth$65 million

Al Roker Age & Early Life

Albert was born in 1954, on 20th August. His birthplace is Queens, New York City, in the United States. His mother was Isabel, and his father was Albert Lincoln Roker Senior. Isabel had Jamaican ancestry ground. Albert was of Bahamian descent and earned his living as a birth driver. Isabel practised the Catholic faith, which was adopted by his son Lincoln. Roker’s first interest was in cartoons.

Albert Roker went to Xavier High School based in Manhattan. In the school, Roker involved himself in many projects related to cartooning and illustration as he was a member of a concerned club. From Xavier High School, Albert moved to the State University of New York in a branch at Oswego. He studied and completed it in 1976. The same year, he was honoured with a Bachelor of Arts in communications.

The US weekly revealed that Rocker is genetically related to famous actors and actresses like Roxie Roker and musician Lenny Kravitz.

Al Roker Personal life

In 1984 Roker got his first sweetheart Alice Bell, a producer on WNBC. The couple had good times for a decade and in 1994 Roker and Deborah Roberts.

Deborah Roberts was Roker’s journalism colleague and a reporter for ABC and NBC. Their encounter was in 1990 when Deborah found a place in NBC for a reporting position. Roker has three children: two daughters Leila and Courtney, and one son Nicholas Albert.

Al Roker Height, and Weight

Born on 20 August 1954, Al Roker is 69 years old as of 2023. His height is 1.73 m tall, and his weight is 78 kg.

Al Roker Career

By the time Roker got prominence in America, he was previously working for CBS as a weather anchor. CBS was a WHEN-TV branch based in Syracuse, New York. That was between 1974 and 1976. By this time, he was a student of SUNY Oswego. He completed his studies and went to Washington District of Columbia and got a job in weather forecasting at a private station of WTTG. The location’s owner was the Metron media, where Roker worked for two years.

In 1978 he was hired at WKYC-TV based in Cleveland, which was an NBC property. He worked there for five years and was promoted to lead WNBC-TV and positioned near his home. The broker got home in New York City at the end of 1983 and became a weathercaster. After eight months, he became a great caster and was the apparent station’s weathercaster. Roker took the place of old experienced Dr. Frank Field. The field had left the station for contract disagreements.

Between 1983 and 1996, Broker worked in exchange for Joe Witte on the NBC News Program by name News at Sunrise. From 1990 to 1995, he was substituting Bryant Gumbel Willard Scott and Matt Lauer on their show, known as today’s show. In 1995 he came out with The All Broker Show, which was hosted every weekend as a talk show on CNBC. He was exposed further by David Letterman after an invitation to Late Night with David Letterman. He was recognized and offered a job as a forecaster for the weekend today.

Al Roker Net worth

Al Roker has an approximate net worth of $80 million.

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