Ron Magers Bio, Family, Career, Wife, Net Worth, Measurements

Ron Magers is a former American journalist and news anchor. He had co-hosted the top-rated 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. shows with Cheryl Burton and Kathy Brock on WLS-TV. Moreover, he has also won numerous awards, including six Chicago Emmy Awards. In addition to this, he received an Associated Press Award and an Ethics Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Additionally, he is the brother of popular journalist Paul Magers who was a TV presenter for KCBS-TV. Ron had also worked with other networks like KEZI-TV, KGW-TV, KPIX-TV and KSTP-TV. Scroll to learn more about his career, personal life, and net worth.

RON MAGERS: BIOGRAPHY, FAMILY, CAREER

The former journalist was born on August 27, 1944 in San Bernardino, California, United States. He was born to supportive and caring parents whose information is not revealed in the media. Additionally, he and his brother Paul grew up in Cordova, Alaska and Ellensburg, Washington.

Regarding his education, he completed his high school education in Toppenish, Washington. During this time, as a part-time job, he started hosting a radio show. Hence, he started his career as a professional journalist from the year 1965. He first joined KEZI-TV as a reporter and news contributor in Eugene. Then he joined KGW-TV in Portland as producer and anchor of 11 p.m. Pin up.

From 1968 to 1974, he worked for KPIX-TV in San-Francisco as a reporter and anchor. Then he moved to Minnesota where he worked as a main anchor for KSTP-TV from 197 to 1981. He moved again to Chicago and joined WMAQ-TV from 1981 to 1997. There he was a co-anchor for the TV news at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. In 1998 he joined WLS as 5:00 p.m. as a co-host with Diann Burns. After John Drury’s retirement, he becomes a co-anchor at 10:00 p.m. in 2002. In 2016, he retired from ABC and succeeded ABC7 presenter Alan Krashesky at 5:00 p.m. in his place. new.

RON MAGERS: PERSONAL LIFE AND WIFE

Ron has never discussed details of his personal life in the media. Likewise, there is no information about his past relationship or dating history. But he is a married man who is still with his wife over the decades. He married then-girlfriend-turned-wife Elise Magers. But no information on his exact date of marriage or first meeting.

Also, there is no information about their separation or divorce. Instead, their married life is going well and sharing a strong bond with each other. Together, they had become parents to three adult children. These are Kendall Hewitt, Tracey Magers and Tisa Koso whose information is not available in the media.

RON MAGERS: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

He has earned tremendously through his career as a journalist and presenter. Although he has no information available on his exact earnings, he has a net worth of $1 million. Additionally, he said he earns an annual salary of $35,500 from his career as a journalist. As of now, he has retired from his journalism career, but perhaps he is currently involved in other business ventures.

He is quite active on different social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. He has a Facebook handle having over 7,000 followers. On Twitter, he goes through the account @RonMagersABC7 with more than 7,000 followers. But it seems that he has no account on Instagram.

RON MAGERS: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The journalist in his 60s has a fit and healthy body that stands 5 feet 9 inches or 1.79 meters tall. other than that, there is no information available on his body weight or measurements. He has silver gray hair with blue eye color.