User:Mnikitas/sandbox

Mike Nikitas* is a TV news and business anchor and reporter at NECN (New England Cable News) in Newton, Massachusetts.* He anchors weeknight news from 4:00pm to 6:00pm and 9:00pm to 10:00pm, as well as "NECN Business"* weeknights at 7:30PM, "This Week In Business,"* and "CEO Corner" on Sundays. He is a five-time Emmy* nominee as "Outstanding Anchor" in the Boston/New England region. He anchored NECN's first newscast on March 2, 1992.

Professional: Nikitas has anchored NECN's live coverage of nearly every major event NECN has shown since 1992, including the OJ Simpson,* Nanny* and Clinton Impeachment* trials, NH Presidential Primaries 1992-2012, 9/11 Attacks, Newtown school shootings, the Boston Marathon bombings. and sports championships won by the New England Patriots, Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics.

Movies: He has appeared as a newscaster in "Ted,"* in 2012, and "Original Sins"* in 1995.

Personal: He was married in 1981 to Amy Evans,* a model seen in national print and video advertising. They have four children. His late father, Christus Nikitas, was a WWII B-29 tailgunner shot down on Aug. 8, 1945. He and his surviving crewmates were captured six days later, and were held in Hiroshima beginning August 14th, 1945, the day before the war ended. They became the last POW's taken in WWII, and the first Americans to set foot in Hiroshima after the dropping of the atomic bomb.