Theodore "Ted" C. Henry (born 1945, in Canton, Ohio) is a retired television news anchor whose career spanned 44 years in the Northeast Ohio area, most notably as the primary news anchor on Cleveland ABC affiliate WEWS channel 5.
Henry was born during the baby boom generation in 1945 in Canton, Ohio, the son of a local hardware store owner and his wife.
At one point in his early twenties Ted entered the Peace Corps, serving overseas for over two years in a tiny third world country village, Caazapa, in Paraguay.
Shortly after college, Henry worked as a reporter and weather forecaster for Akron, Ohio TV station WAKR-TV 23, and upon returning home from his Peace Corps service, Henry then worked at sister stations WKBN AM 570 and WKBN-TV 27 in Youngstown, Ohio as a government reporter.
[5] In his retirement, Henry and his wife Jody have traveled abroad, filming freelance interviews with religious and spiritual leaders, including followers of Sathya Sai Baba.