WITH CHRIS PLANTE

TALK SHOW HOST — WMAL NEWSRADIO

CHRIS PLANTE JOINED THE WMAL TEAM AFTER 17 YEARS AT CNN INCLUDING NEARLY TEN YEARS ASSIGNED TO THE PENTAGON COVERING THE U.S. MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. CHRIS WAS ASSIGNED VARIOUSLY AS PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT, SENIOR PRODUCER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS, MILITARY AFFAIRS PRODUCER AND AS AN ASSIGNMENT EDITOR. HE FORMERLY HOSTED HIS OWN PROGRAM ON THE AMERICAN LIFE TELEVISION NETWORK, AND MAKES FREQUENT APPEARANCES ON VARIOUS CABLE NEWS NETWORKS INCLUDING THE FOX NEWS CHANNEL, CNN AND MSNBC. IN HIS TIME WITH WMAL, CHRIS HAS HELPED RAISE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR CHARITIES LIKE THE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION. REPRESENTING THE THIRD GENERATION OF HIS FAMILY THAT HAS BEEN "ON-THE-AIR" IN RADIO AND TELEVISION, CHRIS BRINGS A UNIQUE WORLD-VIEW, AND LARGELY CONSERVATIVE/LIBERTARIAN VALUES TO HIS ROLE AS TALK SHOW HOST ON WMAL.