Former WNEG TV Anchor Chuck Moore Passes Away

North Georgia is remembering a long-time fixture on local and regional television.

Former WNEG TV News Anchor Chuck Moore passed away at his home at Chickasaw Point, South Carolina on Friday.

Moore worked at WNEG TV in Toccoa from 1999 to 2009 as an Anchor.

One of his former colleagues at WNEG is Jennifer Cathey Arbitter, who was an Anchor and News Director at the station with Moore.

She said Moore was an amazing professional who took his role as a newsman very seriously.

“We were a little, start-up news operation and I had been news director for, I don’t know, five minutes, and for some wonderful reason, Chuck decided to join us and he immediately made our newscasts more valid, more credible,” said Arbitter. “For a solid year after he joined the station, people would stop me on the street and say ‘How did you get Chuck Moore to come to WNEG?’.”

Arbitter explained that for Moore, northeast Georgia was the perfect combination of a professional opportunity and a personal one by bringing people the news in an area he loved.

“I would say, ‘Look around, he loves beautiful northeast Georgia’,” said Arbitter. “He really did. He loved to go hiking. He loved to play golf. He loved the lakes and it was a wonderful lifestyle choice for him and his wife to move to this area.”

She also said that he served as a wonderful influence on and mentor for young reporters and anchors.

“He had a wonderful way of providing critique and criticism,” said Arbitter. “He never made you feel like you were silly or stupid. He would ask you open-ended questions, such as ‘Did you mean to say this?’ or ‘Do you think that you could maybe say this this way?’ He wanted it to be a collaborative effort. It was not as though he would just fix the young reporter’s mistakes and move on down the line. He would discuss things with them because he wanted everybody to get better.”

Moore also spent nearly 20 years at WXIA in Atlanta as an Anchor after moving over from WAGA.

Other than Georgia, he worked in Shreveport, Louisiana and Kansas City, Missouri.

Arbitter said Moore will be missed.

“I wish that were more people like Chuck in this business for many reasons, not just because of his wonderful professionalism, but also because of his generosity of spirit,” said Arbitter. “He really did make everybody who worked with him better.”

Moore is survived by a wife, brother, and numerous children and grandchildren.

He was 73 years old.