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'''Cabot Rea''' is an American former reporter and television news anchorman. He was the evening and night co-anchorman for WCMH, the NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1978, Rea graduated from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio with a degree in music education. He taught music in Newark, Ohio, and was twice teacher of the year at Wilson Junior High. Also a professional singer and actor, Rea toured in a production of ''Camelot'' and was the principal baritone at the Ohio Light Opera Company.
Rea started at WCMH in 1985 as a weekend sports and daily feature reporter for the station, and received an Emmy Award for a feature news story on Camp Reams, a corrections facility in Lancaster, Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/reams.htm |title=Camp Reams |access-date=2005-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051218045602/http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/reams.htm |archive-date=2005-12-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On October 14, 2015, he announced that by the end of December 2015 he would retire from working at NBC4 news. He had been there for 30 years.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nbc4i.com/2015/10/14/30-years-with-cabot-rea/ |title="30 years with Cabot Rea", by Nick Bechtel, WCMH |access-date=2015-10-14 |archive-date=2017-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110080942/http://nbc4i.com/2015/10/14/30-years-with-cabot-rea/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Rea briefly served as the co-anchorman on the nightly news at WWHO, the Columbus UPN affiliate.
He teaches radio and television performance at Otterbein College.
Until recently,{{when|date=February 2013}} Rea served as the host of the Miss Ohio Pageant since 1986.
Rea has a wife, Heather, and three children: Josh, Meredith, and Cassie.
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