Roz Varon ABC7, Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Husband, Retired, Salary, Net Worth, Health

Roz Varon
Roz Varon

Roz Varon Biography and Wiki

Roz Varon is an American retired journalist and news personality who previously worked as a traffic and transportation anchor on WLS-TV, Channel 7, an ABC affiliate television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She joined ABC 7 News as Morning Traffic Anchor in April 1989 and Varon retired on April 5 2024 after serving over three decades in the field.

Roz Varon Age and Birthday

Roz was born on November 26, 1959, in the United States of America. She is 65 years old as of 2024. Her birth sign is Sagittarius. The journalist turns 66 years old on November 26, 2025.

Roz Varon Height

The journalist is of average stature She stands at 5 feet 6 inches (Approx, 1.68 meters) tall.

Roz Varon Education

The traffic anchor attended and graduated from a local high school in her hometown. She then joined Columbia College Chicago, a private art college in Chicago, Illinois.

She later graduated from the institute in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Communications.

Roz Varon Family, Parents, Siblings

Roz was born in the United States to her parents whose identities have not yet been made public. It’s therefore not clear if she has any siblings. Further details regarding her family background will be updated soon when disclosed.

Roz Varon
Roz Varon

Roz Varon Husband, Is She Married?

In regards to her marital entanglement, the famed traffic anchor is happily married to her loving husband Glen Janz. The romantic duo exchanged their wedding vows in a private wedding ceremony attended by family members and close friends. We are keeping tabs and we will update her partner’s details soon.

Roz Varon Daughter

The couple is happily blessed with a beautiful daughter named Sara who is now an adult. She is also an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago.

Roz Varon Salary

According to ABC estimates, she received an average annual salary ranging from $31,300 to $92,500. Her contract with the exact figures is yet to be released.

Roz Varon Net Worth

The news personality has an estimated net worth ranging from $100,000 to $350,000. This amount is from her extensive career as a journalist among other investments.

Career| ABC 7 News|WLS-TV

WLS-TV, Channel 7, is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network’s ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on North State Street in the Chicago Loop.

She joined ABC 7 News as Morning Traffic Anchor in April 1989. Roz also provides extensive coverage of the transportation beat. She was notably the first in the country to bring traffic rush hour reporting to the TV morning news.

Varon is the recipient of multiple Emmy Awards in Traffic Reporting, Specialty Programming, Spot News, and Features as well as several Peter Lisagor Awards.

In Addition, she recently published “On the Road with Roz: Adventures in Travel and Life,” where she showcases her travels on Route 66 and around the world with her family.

Her final day at the station was on Friday, April 5, 2024. Varon has been a fixture on ABC 7’s morning news since she began at the station over three and a half decades ago. She has the distinction of being Chicago’s first TV traffic reporter on the morning news and one of the first TV traffic reporters in the country.

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