4/16/22

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Wendy Rieger, a longtime local television news anchor in Washington, D.C., has died. She was 65. The Washington Post reports that Rieger, who worked at NBC station WRC-TV for more than 30 years, died Saturday of brain cancer at a hospice facility in Montgomery County, Maryland. Rieger worked for several in public and commercial radio and as a weekend reporter at CNN’s Washington bureau before joining WRC in 1988 as a nighttime street reporter. She began anchoring weekend evening newscasts in 1996 and became a co-anchor of the 5 p.m. weekday slot in 2001. Rieger was diagnosed with a brain tumor in May 2021 and retired in December after 33 years at WRC.