Maureen O'Boyle (born July 14, 1963) is an American television reporter and news anchor. She is currently a lead anchor for WBTV News 3 in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, where she anchors the weekly report "Stretching Your Dollar." O'Boyle previously was the anchorwoman for the TV shows A Current Affair and Extra.

Early life

O'Boyle was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is one of ten children; her oldest brother Johnny died when he was a toddler. Growing up, her father's work for Xerox had the family moving almost every two years from New York to England until they finally settled back in Charlotte, where her father started a specialty advertising company called Timeplanner Calendars. O'Boyle's six brothers eventually took over the family business, grew it to a multimillion-dollar company, and sold it in summer 2007.

O'Boyle graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1981 and studied journalism at East Carolina University.

Early career

In her freshman year at East Carolina University, O'Boyle helped restart the campus radio station WZMB. She was also hired to do morning cut-ins at the NBC affiliate in nearby Washington N.C. station WITN. She later went to work for WNCT in Greenville on weekends. O'Boyle eventually left school before graduating, and was hired by WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she worked as a nightside reporter and was promoted to noon anchor. Her next stop was WMAZ in Macon, Georgia, as co-anchor and reporter. She left that station to become main anchor for the CBS affiliate, KREM 2 in Spokane, Washington.