Chris Hansen

Also known as Christopher Edward Hansen, Christopher Hansen, Christopher E. Hansen, Chris Edward Hansen, Chris E. Hansen

American television journalist (born 1959)

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Christopher Edward "Chris" Hansen (born March 26, 1959) is an American television infotainment personality. He is well-known for his work on the Dateline NBC television segment To Catch a Predator. These investigations revolved around catching potential Internet sex predators using a sting operation. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Hansen">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation. When the segment's three-year run concluded, Hansen continued to host similarly formatted shows on other networks.

After parting ways with NBC in 2013, he began hosting Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery in 2015, a short-lived series that documented homicide investigations. That same year, he replaced Matt Doran as the host of the syndicated series Crime Watch Daily, which he hosted for two seasons and had his own segment similar to his Dateline feature, Hansen vs. Predator. He co-founded the true crime–oriented streaming service TruBlu in 2020, for which he produced and starred in the web series Takedown with Chris Hansen.