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American journalist, anchorman, and television host

Nicholas Joseph Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host. He is the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney and the father of actor George Clooney.

Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the son of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle; 1904–1972) and Andrew Joseph Clooney (1902–1974). He was one of five children. While serving as a Corporal in the U. S. Army, he was a disc jockey in the American Forces Network in Germany, hosting the shows Music in the Air and Melody Go Round. He then moved to California for a try at show business. When that did not work out, Clooney moved to Ohio, where he met Nina Warren when she was a contestant in a beauty pageant he was judging; they married in August 1959. In addition to his son, George, Nick Clooney has a daughter named Adelia (known as Ada).

Clooney had an eight year stint (1958–1966) at WKYT TV in Lexington, Kentucky, then went to Ohio to host his own TV show, The Nick Clooney Show, first in Columbus, Ohio, for WLWC television in 1968, then for Cincinnati's WCPO TV in 1969, and finally with its greatest degree of success for crosstown rival WKRC TV through the early 1970s. The Nick Clooney Show was a local morning show, with a variety and talk show format. In December 1974, he gained his first national fame by hosting the ABC daytime game show The Money Maze. Broadcast nationally on ABC at 4 p. m., WKRC TV (at the time an ABC affiliate) delayed The Money Maze so it could be seen back to back with The Nick Clooney Show at 10:30 and 11 a. m., respectively. After ABC canceled The Money Maze on July 4, 1975, Clooney returned to WKRC TV and became the station's news director and lead anchor. As a journalist, he is probably best remembered for his coverage of the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire and its aftermath, which spanned several years. Many people in the region first heard about the fire from Clooney when WKRC interrupted its Saturday night prime time schedule to broadcast news of the fire. Clooney pursued a hard news focus that was quite different from the sensationalism often seen on local television. Under his leadership, WKRC TV became a solid #1 in the local news ratings, dethroning CBS affiliate WCPO TV, which had controlled ratings for more than two decades under Al Schottelkotte's leadership. After leaving WKRC in 1984, Clooney then worked in Los Angeles, California, as the 5 p. m. and 11 p. m. co anchor at KNBC. He returned again to WKRC TV in the late 1980s, but by that time, NBC affiliate WLWT was number one in the late newscast, with former Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer as its main anchor; Clooney was not able to lead WKRC back to ratings leadership it enjoyed in the past. He moved on to Salt Lake City, Utah for several years to anchor and help launch the news operation of the market's Fox station KSTU with its 9 p. m. newscast. Then in 1994, a short stint as a news anchor for NBC affiliate WGRZ TV in Buffalo, New York. He resurfaced nationally in television as a host and researcher for the cable channel American Movie Classics, where he introduced and presented backgrounds of classic movies, along with Bob Dorian. In 1999, he returned to his former radio home WSAI in Cincinnati, starting as afternoon host September 13, then moving to mornings in November to replace Bob Braun, who had health problems. Despite his long association with WKRC TV and helping it become one of the dominant stations in the Cincinnati area alongside WCPO TV, Clooney has been critical of WKRC TV's current owners, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, over their conservative viewpoints and their must runs during its stations' local newscasts including WKRC TV. Clooney was critical of Sinclair's journalistic responsibility promos during the Presidency of Donald Trump, stating that he would have "quit and become a cab driver" if station management had forced him into reading it on the air.