title: Virginia Cha
text: # Virginia Cha
  
  Virginia Cha is a Korean American news anchor for KGTV-TV, San Diego. She was formerly employed at HLN based in Atlanta, and as an NBC News correspondent based in New York.
  
  Cha graduated from Princeton University and is a Fulbright Scholar.
  
  ## Professional career
  
  Cha began her news career at WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut. She was a general assignment reporter, substitute anchor, then head anchor and reporter for the morning news.
  
  She then became a news anchor and chief medical correspondent for WBZ TV-4 in Boston, Massachusetts, where she won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement and a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Team Political Coverage.
  
  She was an anchor on MSNBC's MSNBC Live, NBC's NBC Nightly News, and CNN and CNN's HLN.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Cha is married to Edward. Cha was Miss Frederick when she entered and won the Miss Maryland 1989 pageant. She was 1st runner-up to Debbye Turner at the 1990 Miss America pageant. She plays the piano.
  
  