Calvin Hughes

{{short description|American journalist}}

Calvin Hughes is a news anchor on WPLG Local 10, in Miami, Florida, United States.[http://www.justnews.com/station/10306152/detail.html Calvin Hughes Biography]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, WPLG, Retrieved December 1, 2010

In mid-2010 Hughes moved form the morning and noontime anchor position to a nighttime co-anchor slot.(4 June 2010). [http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/04/1662641/calvin-hughes-joins-laurie-jennings.html Calvin Hughes joins Laurie Jennings at WPLG], The Miami Herald, Retrieved December 1, 2010

Hughes came to Local 10 in late 2006 from KYW-TV, the CBS station in Philadelphia,(12 October 2006). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=114BC1419F024350&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM CNN taking Lou Dobbs seven days], The Philadelphia Inquirer, Retrieved December 1, 2010 ("CBS3 weekend coanchor Calvin Hughes will join Miami's WPLG next month as a reporter and anchor. Hughes started at Channel 3 in November '03") where he had been since November 2003 and anchored the weekend newscasts and served as a weekday night side reporter, covering several national stories, including the Live 8 Concert and Amish schoolhouse shootings. Hughes previously worked in Atlanta (WGCL-TV from 1999 to October 2002, where he worked with Jane Robelot),(13 November 2003). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FED145985C39700&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Moving Up], The Philadelphia Inquirer, Retrieved December 1, 2010 ("Going from male anchorstar in Atlanta to general assignment reporter in Philadelphia is not a demotion says KYW newbie Calvin Hughes ... [worked with] Jane Robelot at Atlanta's WGCL from 1999 to October02 ")(23 December 2003). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FFA62F503805BE5&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Former TV anchor now in Philadelphia], The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Retrieved December 1, 2010 Dallas (KXAS-TV, 1995–99),(26 October 2000). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=croeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-M8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6875,3872225&dq=calvin-hughes+dallas&hl=en Making Adjustments], Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Retrieved December 1, 2010(26 September 1995). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LH&s_site=kentucky&p_multi=LH&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7400020C30FFB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Hughes leaving WKYT], Lexington Herald-Leader, Retrieved December 1, 2010 ("Calvin Hughes city hall reporter for WKYT-TV Channel 27 is making the leap to a station in Dallas the nation's eighth largest TV market") Lexington, Kentucky (WKYT-TV), and Evansville, Indiana (WTVW), as an anchor and reporter. At 19, Hughes began reporting for the local radio station KBIA in Columbia, Missouri, while still a student at the University of Missouri, where he received a degree in journalism.(29 July 1999). [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Jane+Robelot,+Calvin+Hughes+to+Anchor+Expanded+News+at+WGNX-TV,+CBS...-a055292150 Jane Robelot, Calvin Hughes to Anchor Expanded News at WGNX-TV, CBS Atlanta], PR Newswire, Retrieved December 1, 2010

Hughes was born in Cleveland and also spent several years in East St. Louis, Illinois. In 2002, he was selected to run the relay leg of the Olympic torch as it passed through the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, headed for the winter games in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{cn|date=July 2023}}

Hughes lives in Miramar, Florida, with his wife, sons and daughter.{{cn|date=July 2023}}