Chris Wragge

Co-Anchor, The Early Show Saturday Edition

(CBS)  Chris Wragge has been co-anchor of The Early Show Saturday Edition since February 2008.

Wragge also serves as co-anchor of CBS 2 News at 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on weekdays.

In addition, he is a fill-in anchor for Harry Smith and Russ Mitchell on the weekday edition of The Early Show.

Wragge joined WCBS-TV in 2004 as the 5OO p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. weekday sports anchor and sports director. He made the jump to the role of news anchor in November 2006. Since then, Wragge has reported on the heroic landing of Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, the 2008 presidential election, the sex scandal that brought down Gov. Elliot Spitzer, a fatal crane collapse in Manhattan, a tornado in Brooklyn, the papal visit, and the collapse of the nation’s economy.

A six-time Emmy Award winner in news, Wragge embodies the word “workaholic.” Chris has worked six-and-seven days-a-week since the year 2000.

Wragge won the 2009 Emmy as best news anchor in New York -- considered the top award of the local Emmys presentations. It was the second year in a row Wragge took home that hardware.

He also grabbed two 2009 Emmys for his coverage from the field of the Manhattan crane collapse.

Before arriving at CBS, Wragge was with NBC Sports and the NBC affiliate in Houston. He spent four years roaming the sidelines for NBC Sports, where he covered the NBA and NBA playoffs for two years working alongside play-by-play men Marv Albert, Tom Hammond and Mike Breen. Wragge also covered the WNBA for two seasons, hosting coverage of the WNBA finals in 2002. He was also a host for NBC's "Sun America Sportsdesk" from 2002-2004.

Wragge is proud to rank his role in NBC’s Olympic Coverage from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City as a career highlight. In Salt Lake City, he joined Katie Couric and Jim McKay on the Opening Ceremony broadcast, one of the highest-rated ceremonies in history. While there, he interviewed such Olympic heroes as Picabo Street, Cammie Granato, and Apolo Ohno. Wragge also served as the Short Track Speed Skating reporter, and as a reporter for the Olympic sports desk.

Wragge’s extensive sports coverage for NBC also included sideline duties for Notre Dame football, the New Year’s Day Gator Bowl, and the Professional Bull Rider’s Association. In 2003 and 2004, Wragge joined NBC’s golf coverage at the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational.

In December 2002, Wragge joined the USA Network as an on-site reporter for “PGA Tour Sunday,” part of the USA Network’s extensive coverage of professional golf. 2006 was Wragge's fourth and final season with the show, an experience that allowed him to cover four Masters, four U.S. Opens, four PGA Championships, a Ryder Cup and over 75 other PGA Tour stops.

Wragge is no stranger to national television audiences after a career that has taken him to the red carpets of the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and major movie premieres as a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 1996-2000. Wragge has also worked for The Travel Channel, DIY Network and HGTV.

Along the way, Wragge has been on the "Oprah Winfrey Show" four times, along with MTV’s "Rock and Jock Super Bowl Football Spectacular." He has emceed two Planet Hollywood Openings with Sylvester Stallone, appeared in various Paramount TV shows while at Entertainment Tonight, and was the target of a "Candid Camera" stunt with Peter Funt.

In 2004, another personal goal was accomplished: the chance to come back home to New York and work for the station he grew up watching, WCBS. In his sports capacity at Ch. 2, Wragge helped develop, and hosted, "Sunday Blitz presented by State Farm," an NFL pre-game show highlighting the upcoming Jet and Giant kickoffs. He also hosted “Sports Sunday presented by Nissan”, a Sunday night highlights show. Wragge earned two New York State Broadcasters Association Awards for "Sports Sunday" and for his coverage of October baseball in New York in the 2006 season. Wragge traveled with the New York Jets and Giants during the NFL season, and during the NFL preseason, he joined CBS Sports’ Ian Eagle and former Jets linebacker Greg Buttle for CBS Sports’ production of the Jets preseason games. Wragge also served as the game’s half-time host. When the NFL season concluded, Wragge took his "shows on the road" to Yankee and Mets spring training for the month of February. Wragge's duties at CBS also extended to CBS Sports, where he was one of the hosts of the "AT&T CBS Sportsdesk."

Wragge also worked at KPRC-TV in Houston, WVIT-TV in Hartford, Conn. and WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H.

Born in Hackensack, N.J., raised in Rutherford and Nutley, N.J., Wragge attended Mahwah High School in Bergen County. He received a football scholarship to the University of New Hampshire.

Wragge resides in Manhattan.