View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk WVIT’s Gerry Brooks: ‘I Had No Desire To Trade Cancer Into Ratings Points.’ By Mark Joyella on Dec. 5, 2014 - 9:45 AM Gerry Brooks, anchor at NBC-owned WVIT in Hartford, waited until after the November sweeps to reveal he’d be off the air until January because of surgery for prostate cancer. As Brooks told the Hartford Courant‘s MaryE ...