[6] While in Cincinnati, Watkins's wife Thierry worked in New York for American Journal, and he commuted there twice a month.
[7] He was hired to host a new newscast at WPHL-TV in Philadelphia, Inquirer News Tonight, which launched in September 1994.
[8] Watkins left Inquirer News Tonight in August 1995 to become the weekend anchor at WNBC in New York.
[9] In 1998, WPIX hired Watkins to replace Jack Cafferty on its weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts alongside Kaity Tong.
In 2014, his recollections of the tragedy, starting with the day before the World Trade Center attack, were featured in the NatGeo documentary 9/10: The Final Hours.