Ravi Baichwal

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Ravi Baichwal is a weekend news anchor and reporter at WLS-TV in Chicago. He was a CTV Newsnet Morning anchor weekdays from 6 AM to 10 AM from 2002 to 2006. He was also a correspondent for CTV National News and sat as substitute anchor as well substitute hosting on "Canada AM", Report on Business Television and contributed to radio. He was previously an anchor and reporter for CTV British Columbia. He began his journalism career in Calgary as a researcher for the CBC. He then worked as an associate producer, reporter and anchor with CBC Newsworld. Baichwal also worked in public affairs in Ontario. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Arts Honours in political science with a certificate in French language studies.

He is married to journalist Sonja Nordahl and has two children, Tejas and Gabriella India.

Car crash incident

On December 23, 2007, a car slammed into the ABC7 studios on State Street in downtown Chicago minutes after Ravi had begun delivering the weekend news. The driver was cited for property damage and reckless driving, among other charges.

External links

* [http://www.indiacurrents.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=e42ab12536a290ec6bcdedfcd67f8dc5&this_category_id= Interview in "India Currents" Magazine by Ranjit Souri]
* [http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/02/three_questions.html SAJAforum's three questions for Ravi Baichwal]
* [http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=bios&id=4807411&ft=exLg abc7chicago.com] Ravi Baichwal biography
* [http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071224/studio_crash_071224/20071224?hub=TopStories CTV.ca - Car crashes into TV studio while host is on air]