Charles S. Roberts is an American broadcast journalist, most notable for being the former weekday news anchor on Headline News, based at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the longest-serving anchor among the CNN networks, anchoring weekday broadcasts on what would later be known as HLN from that network's debut as CNN2 on January 1, 1982—when he was the first anchor on its airwaves—until his retirement on July 30, 2010.