birth_place ethnicity credits birth_date gender birthname article_title name occupation
baltimore , maryland mixed race co-anchor -lrb- 2003-present -rrb- with diana williams and the co-anchor for of `` eyewitness news at 11 '' -lrb- 2011-present -rrb- with eyewitness bill ritter . news at 5:00 pm for wabc-tv 14 april 1969 female folasade olayinka baderinwa sade baderinwa
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sade baderinwa

folasade olayinka baderinwa , known professionally as sade baderinwa -lrb- -rrb- , -lrb- born april 14 , 1969 -rrb- is a news anchor at new york 's wabc channel 7 .
she co-anchors the weekday 5 p.m. editions of `` eyewitness news '' alongside diana williams and the 11pm news with bill ritter .
she joined wabc in 2003 after a stint in her hometown of baltimore , maryland , where she anchored the news on wbal-tv for nearly three years .
sade replaced roz abrams , who left wabc in 2003 to take over the 5 and 11 p.m. anchor duties at wcbs-tv .
on july 23 , 2004 while preparing a report on location in hackensack , new jersey about local flooding , she was struck by a hit and run driver who went through police lines .
after multiple surgeries and months of recovery and physical therapy , sade returned to `` eyewitness news '' on december 13 , 2004 .
baderinwa was the anchor of the noon broadcasts before being promoted to 5 p.m. with diana williams .
sade appeared on `` the view '' as a guest co-host on october 27 , 2006 .
in may , 2011 , baderinwa became co-anchor of the 11 p.m. news with bill ritter , replacing liz cho , who left that slot to anchor the new wabc 4 p.m newscast , which debuted due to the departure of `` the oprah winfrey show '' .
baderinwa continues to anchor the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news .
her father is nigerian and her mother is german .
her first name , `` folasade '' , means '' `` honor confers a crown '' '' .
she graduated from the university of maryland college park.after being abandoned at a young age , baderinwa was adopted by a middle-class african american family .
she has maintained contact with her biological father who resides in nigeria , as well as with her adoptive family .
