Vote For The Hottest News Babe in New York

I've been to NY, the big apple, several times for work. I always enjoyed it of course because of the sights and sounds of the world's greatest city. Naturally, New York has the pick of the litter when it comes to hot news babes and I found many but picked the eight that I thought were the hottest. If you don't see your favorite hottie NY news babe, feel free to email me at anchorbabes@gmail.com so I can add it.

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The candidates are:

Darlene Rodriguez (WNBC)
Darlene Rodriguez (born 1970) is co-anchor of Today in New York on WNBC-TV. Rodriguez became co-anchor of the show in July 2003 after serving as a reporter for WNBC and then co-anchor of Weekend Today in New York.

Rodriguez has also served as a fill in newsreader for Ann Curry on The Today Show on NBC. Before WNBC she was a general assignment reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 for four years. Prior to working at WCBS, she worked as a reporter for the Bronxnet cable television network.

She is a 1988 graduate of Christopher Columbus High School in the Bronx, and a 1992 graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in broadcast journalism and political science. While in college, Rodriguez was instrumental in creating various local cable news programs which focused on cross-cultural cuisines. Her passion for cooking and crocheting (which she learned as a child) still occupy most of her free time.

Michelle Charlesworth (WABC)
Michelle Charlesworth (born June 7, 1970) is an American television news reporter and anchor. Since 1998 she has been a reporter for both ABC News and WABC-TV, as well as a weekend morning anchor for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News and is best known for an award winning series of reports about her battle with skin cancer, which aired on both WABC-TV and ABC's Good Morning America.

After graduating from Duke University with a BA in public policy, Michelle studied economics in a graduate program on a full scholarship from the German government at the University of Freiberg. She was an anchor and reporter at WNCN-TV in North Carolina from 1996 to 1998

On October 16, 2006, Charlesworth gave birth to her first child, a girl. Her daughter was named Isabelle Marlene, after the hurricane that hit Charlesworth's wedding on the Jersey Shore.

Michelle Charlesworth is an alumna of Princeton High School in New Jersey. She was currently in a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace currently fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein. Another candidate for the anchor seat was reporter Lisa Colagrossi. Ken Rosato became the co-anchor on July 6, 2007.

Jodi Applegate (WNYW)
Jodi Applegate (born May 2, 1964 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American news anchor. She currently anchors WNYW-TV's Good Day New York with Ron Corning.

Applegate was raised in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. In 1982, Applegate graduated from Moon Area High School. She then attended New York University, where she got a degree in television and film.

From 1993 to 1996, Applegate hosted Good Morning Arizona on KTVK. During her stay in Phoenix, Applegate met and married sportscaster Rob Nikoleski. In 1996, Applegate began anchoring MSNBC Live and Weekend Today. She also filled in as a substitute host on the Today show. In late 1999, she hosted Later Today with Florence Henderson and Asha Blake. The show was canceled in 2000. In mid-2001, Applegate joined WFXT-TV in Boston. She anchored the FOX 25 Morning News, and also briefly anchored the short-lived 4:30 P.M. newscast.

In October 2004, Applegate left WFXT-TV for WNYW-TV in New York City. Applegate began anchoring Good Day New York in 2005. On July 27, 2006, she gained nationwide notoriety for an incident during a segment on Good Day New York towards the end of the 7am hour. Casey and Van Neistat, film-maker brothers, were supposed to be demonstrating how to steal a bicycle (in support of a video they'd made). During the demonstration of a "very dangerous" angle grinder to cut a heavy chain, Casey made it appear as if his brother had cut his throat (using ketchup and yelling excitedly). Applegate angrily scolded the two for perpetrating a prank on live TV. The incident became a popular video on the Internet.

In August 2007 Jodi appeared in the September 2007 issue of More magazine in a feature on "Portraits of 40+ Style".

Sam Ryan (WCBS)
Sam Ryan is an American sportscaster based in New York City where she works as a sports anchor and reporter for WCBS-TV and CBS Sports. In 2004, she started working on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. In 2005, she served as the reporter for Monday Night Football while Michele Tafoya was on maternity leave. In June 2006, she was hired by CBS Sports and WCBS-TV in New York. An alumnus of the NYIT in Old Westbury, New York, her senior project was titled "Gender Bias in Sports Broadcasting and Media Coverage". She also majored in communications at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Ryan and her husband Jeff currently reside in Smithtown, New York with their son Nicklaus and their daughter Jensen.

Karen Hepp (WNYW)
Karen Hepp anchors the weekend news on WNYW-TV Fox 5 News in New York City.

Karen Hepp has been an Anchor/Reporter with Fox 5 since January 2005. She previously worked for NBC Owned and Operated stations for 8 years before that (WNBC in New York, WCAU in Philadelphia, and WVIT in Connecticut.) Her career began in Binghamton and Rochester. Hepp graduated from New York University.

In late-November 2006, Hepp announced that she was pregnant. On March 13, 2007, Hepp gave birth to her son, Quinn Joseph. Hepp is married to Brian Sullivan.

Kristine Johnson (WCBS)
Kristine Johnson (born May 31, 1962 at the former Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines to a Filipino mother and an American father ) is a co-anchor at WCBS-TV in New York on the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts with Chris Wragge. She joined the station in November, 2006 as anchor of the 12 Noon and 5PM broadcasts alongside the stations former sports director Wragge. In June, 2007, she and Wragge replaced Dana Tyler and Jim Rosenfield on the 11PM newscast, while they took on the 12 Noon newscast. She was previously an anchor of Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC and was also one of the alternating news anchors on Weekend Today. She joined MSNBC in 2005. She had earlier worked as a reporter and anchor in Providence, Rhode Island for WPRI. She was the recipient of two nominations for an Emmy award as a producer. Her education was at the University of Nebraska, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts in journalism and minors in political science, history and English.

She announced on Early Today that October 20, 2006 was her last day and that she would be moving on. This was the same week that NBC Universal announced that it would cut 700 jobs. Kristine resides in New Jersey with her husband Steve, daughter Ava (born May 16, 2002), and son Burke (born March 5, 2007).

Kate Sullivan (WCBS)
Kate Sullivan is an American TV news presenter, who joined WCBS-TV New York in April 2006 as co-anchor of CBS 2 News This Morning with Maurice DuBois, weekdays from 5-7 a.m. Sullivan most recently anchored KATVs Live at Five and Channel 7 News at 6 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A native of New England, Sullivan graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame. She worked as a general assignment reporter and intern at WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana and at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island.

In January 2000, Sullivan joined KATV as a general assignment reporter and in 2002, she was promited to Live at Five co-anchor. Then in 2003, she was promited again to anchor "Channel 7 News at 6". She covered 9/11 from New York for KATV.

An Emmy Award nominee, Sullivan has won several awards, including the Associated Press "First Place" award for Breaking News.

Not to be confused with artist/adventurer Kate Sullivan also living in New York City of Ace Bar fame.

Liz Cho (WABC)
Liz Cho (born June 14, 1971) is currently a weekday anchor, alongside Bill Ritter, on Eyewitness News at WABC-TV in New York City. Cho co-anchors the weeknight 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts of Eyewitness News.

She started on July 6, 2003, replacing Diana Williams, who asked for a lighter workload. Cho joined ABC News in 1999 as a Chicago-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service. She later co-anchored ABC's overnight news program, World News Now, with Derek McGinty. During this time, she also served as a fill-in newsreader for Good Morning America.

Cho was a reporter at WPLG in Miami before moving to ABC News. She grew up in Concord, Massachusetts, the older of two children (she has a younger brother, Andrew). Her father is Sang Cho, a Korean American surgeon in Boston, and her mother is Donna Cho, a retired nurse who is Jewish American.

In early 2003, Cho was recognized by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People".

On May 17, 2007, Cho gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Louisa Simone. Liz was on maternity leave during the summer of 2007. She returned to work on September 4 with Bill Ritter.

*All biographies from wikipedia or their respective employer websites.