Chet Curtis

{{short description|American journalist}}

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| name = Chet Curtis

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| birth_name = Chester Kukiewicz

| birth_date = April 15, 1939

| birth_place = Amsterdam, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and given age|2014|1|22|74}}

| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| education = Ithaca College

| occupation = News anchor, reporter

| spouse = {{marriage|Helen Wagner |1960|1974}}
Natalie Jacobson (1975–2000)

| children = 3

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Chet Curtis (born Chester Kukiewicz;{{cite news|first=Dick|last=Lehr|title=Split screen|url=http://graphics.boston.com/globe/magazine/1-28/featurestory1.shtml|work=Boston Globe|date=2001-01-28}} April 15, 1939 – January 22, 2014) was an American newscaster who co-anchored with his then-wife, newscaster Natalie Jacobson. He was born in Amsterdam, New York and raised in Schenectady, New York.[https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/01/23/chet-curtis-longtime-boston-news-anchor-has-died/z6KojzhupQRqJQKhNKhw9I/story.html "Chet Curtis, longtime Boston TV news anchor, dies at 74"], The Boston Globe; retrieved January 25, 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Chet-Curtis&lc=4643&pid=169249095&mid=5828687&Affiliate=bostonglobe&PersonID=169249787&FHID=10710|title = Chet Curtis Obituary - Boston, MA}}

Curtis was a primetime anchor at NECN, where he anchored The Chet Curtis Report, a nightly news and interview program, and co-anchored New England Business Day. Before joining NECN in the spring of 2001, Curtis had been an anchor and reporter with WCVB-TV since its launch in 1972. For the majority of his time at WCVB, Curtis, with Jacobson, co-anchored the station's principal weekday newscasts, and was the original host of the station's award-winning Chronicle program. He began his career in Boston at the former WHDH-TV Channel 5, before that station lost its license, and ownership was handed over to Boston Broadcasters, Inc., who re-launched Channel 5 as today's WCVB. Before coming to New England, Curtis worked as an anchor and reporter at CBS television's flagship station WCBS-TV in New York City, and prior to that at WTOP-TV (now WUSA-TV), the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., also as an anchor and reporter.