CBS 6 News Saturday at 6 & 11; Sunday at 6:30 & 11

Weekend Anchor/Reporter

Jerry Gretzinger anchors the weekend newscasts for CBS 6.  You can also see him weeknights when he reports the top stories for the 11:00 news.  The award-winning journalist came to CBS 6 in 2002 from sister station WLNE-ABC 6 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Jerry has been working as a television anchor and reporter since 1993.  He got his first broadcast job when he was still a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.  "I was doing an internship at WTZA (now RNN) in Kingston, New York.  They were shorthanded on election night and asked me if I could do a live report for them."  The rest was history.

"The things I love most about my job are that I meet so many people and that no two days are ever the same."  Jerry says there is nothing else he'd rather do for a living and no place he'd rather do it in.  "I grew up in the Hudson Valley.  This is home."

The career that started in Kingston would eventually take Jerry to 6 different stations throughout the northeast.  He says the most enjoyable assignment he ever received was in 1996 when NBC affiliate WWLP sent him globetrotting to Sicily, Rome, Venice, Milan, Monaco, Cannes, and the French Alps.  Of course, not every memorable story requires a trip to Europe.  On 9-11, Jerry was live at Logan Airport in Boston, where terrorists had boarded the jetliners that would eventually take down the World Trade Center.  His report on the disappearance of 16-year-old Massachusetts lifeguard, Molly Bish, was featured at the Associated Press Awards ceremony in Boston in 2001.  And he was thrilled to make a cold case hot again when he profiled an unsolved murder in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  The story generated some new information that led investigators to a suspect who was later tried and convicted.

Perhaps the most satisfying story Jerry has ever told was his own.  In 2003, he was diagnosed with Testicular Cancer.  Cameras were rolling through many of his treatments and physician appointments.  He later went on to produce a 3 part series on his battle against Testicular Cancer that garnered him an Associated Press Award nomination.  Jerry received hundreds of emails thanking him for the information he shared with the Capital Region.  He continues to preach the importance of early detection to anyone who will listen.

When not on the air, Jerry plays basketball, baseball, roots for the Yankees, and takes in the occasional Broadway show.  He lives in Saratoga County with his wife, Paula, and their two wonderful children, Jerry and Nicole.

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