Bill Weir

William Francis Weir (born December 19, 1967) is an American television journalist and anchor for CNN. He is the former co-anchor of Nightline on ABC television network in the United States. Before Nightline, he was a co-host of the weekend edition of Good Morning America from 2004 to 2010.

Career

Weir was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, on December 19, 1967. He has a degree in journalism and creative writing from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

Weir began his career in 1991 as a general assignment reporter and weekend sportscaster at KAAL in Austin, Minnesota. Weir next became the sports anchor at WLUK in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and went on to anchor the WGN Morning News on WGN in Chicago from 1995 to 1998. Weir was sports anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2002, where he hosted the popular weekly Monday Night Live program which aired after Monday Night Football. Between 2002 and 2004, he developed, wrote and hosted three television pilots for the USA and FX Networks.

Bill Weir (footballer)

Bill Weir (23 August 1874 – 8 July 1955) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After football, he worked as a chemist in Williamstown. He later enlisted in the Australian Army to fight in the Boer War, and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal.

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