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Jodi Applegate: Anchor, Dog Walker, ‘That’s Not Cool’ YouTube Prank-Slayer

By Dylan on December 27, 2006 12:12 PM

The bubbly anchor of Fox’s Good Day New York — and the victim the infamous “that’s not cool” YouTube bike-lock prank — is increasingly becoming a common media trivia answer:

You were the first anchor of MSNBC for its debut — how was that?

Applegate: I went on the air on July 15, 1996. It was like, “Applegate, you’re up.” I was nervous, it was the network debut. I had (former GE chairman) Jack Welch standing right in the room there watching. I was probably too young and naive to be really nervous.

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