Perkins comes from a line of family members involved in the radio business, including his father, who had worked at WOL and WOOK, and his uncle, who worked at WFIL as a radio engineer. There, he worked with the campus radio station and the black student newspaper, and helped found the campus television station. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from American University's School of Communication in 1981. In high school, Perkins had a good academic record and was involved in many extracurricular activities, including becoming the first black editor-in-chief of his school's student newspaper. He attended elementary school in Washington, D.C., junior high in Maryland and Virginia, and graduated from Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1977. His parents divorced when he was 11, and his mother worked as a telephone operator and night clerk to raise the family. Together, the family lived in the South Bronx until moving to Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. His parents had met when his father was working at a shoe store in New York. Perkins was born on August 25, 1959, in New York City to Constance Bellamy (1938-2018) and Tommy Perkins (d. Perkins joined CBS affiliate WUSA in Washington, D.C., for six weeks, beginning October 21, 2019, for the station's morning show, Get Up DC!, which became a full-time assignment when he was named full-time anchor of the show in January 2020. Good Morning America weekday meteorologistĪnthony Perkins (born August 25, 1959) is an American broadcast journalist, radio personality, and former weathercaster, best known for his work on ABC's Good Morning America as the primary weather anchor from 1999 to 2005.
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