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.