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Peter Mehegan has been co-host of WCVB-TV's Chronicle since August 1982, shortly after the program premiered as the nation's first locally produced nightly newsmagazine. In 1984, Mehegan also became the host of WCVB's Five on Five, a weekly public-affairs program.
As co-host of Chronicle, Mehegan has traveled to Ireland, England, France, Israel, Italy, Canada and the Caribbean. He covered the famine in Ethiopia in 1984, and reported on the Winter Olympics live from Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1984 and from Calgary, Canada in 1988.
Mehegan was a news reporter, writer and anchor with WBZ-TV, Boston, for 14 years before joining WCVB as a news reporter/anchor in 1981. As a reporter he covered Pope John Paul II's 1979 travels throughout the United States and won an Emmy Award for his 1980 coverage of a protest march at the Seabrook, N.H. nuclear power plant.
Mehegan began his broadcasting career in 1963 at WMEX Radio, Boston, where he wrote drive-time news before and after college classes. After graduating from Boston University in 1964, he joined Boston's WNAC Radio, where he worked as a writer/reporter. In 1967, he broke into television as a news writer and began on-camera reporting that same year when he covered the campaign headquarters of a newly elected Boston mayor, Kevin White.
Mehegan and his wife, Julianne, have four daughters.
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