Chris Velardi

When Chris Velardi joined News Channel 8 in June of 2000, it marked a homecoming for the Branford native. You can watch Chris on Saturday and Sunday mornings anchoring "Good Morning Connecticut". During the week, he covers Connecticut as a reporter for News Channel 8.

Before returning to Connecticut, Chris worked as a reporter and anchor at television stations in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Ithaca, New York. He also worked at a number of radio stations, as both a news reporter and a disc jockey. He got his start in journalism while he was still in high school, landing a job as a sports reporter for the Branford Review.

Chris is a graduate of Syracuse University. He lives with his wife and two children on the shoreline.