Is Chris Plante related to Bill Plante?

Chris Plante is a syndicated radio talk show host, based at WMAL Radio in Washington D.C., and heard on the Westwood One Network. He is also a frequent guest on both Fox News and Fox Business. Chris Plante is the stepson of one-time CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante.

Is Chris Plante related to Bill Plante?

Plante’s first marriage was to Barbara Barnes Orteig. Together, they had two children, along with the four sons from her previous marriage whom he adopted, including syndicated radio talk show host Chris Plante. They eventually divorced. He later married Robin Smith in 1987.

Bill Plante’s last work was as the Senior White House Correspondent for CBS, reporting regularly for CBS This Morning as well as for the CBS Evening News. Plante covered the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama as a national correspondent for CBS News.

He also served several tours of duty in South Vietnam covering the Vietnam War, the first in 1964 and the last in 1975 during the Fall of Saigon at the end of the war. He anchored CBS Sunday Night News from 1988 to 1995. He retired in November 2016

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