Ernie Anastos, Longtime New York City TV News Anchor, Dies at 82
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He worked at WABC's Eyewitness News for 11 years and Fox’s WNYW for another 15 and had two stints at WCBS in between.
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Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Ernie Anastos, the charismatic New York City television anchor who spent 11 years with WABC’s Eyewitness News and another 15 with Fox’s WNYW, died Wednesday. He was 82. Anastos started out at WABC in 1978 and finished up at WNYW in 2019. In between, he had two stints at WCBS-TV and one at WWOR, and he collected more than 30 local Emmy awards and nominations along the way. WABC reported the news of his death, citing people close to his family. Born on July 12, 1943, in Nashua, New Hampshire, Anastos graduated from Northeastern University with a degree in sociology. He began as a reporter for the Boston radio stations WRKO and WROR, then landed his first TV job at WPRI in Providence, Rhode Island. Related Stories TV Jennifer Runyon, 'Ghostbusters' Actress, Dies at 65 Music Country Joe McDonald, '60s Rock Star, Proud Protest Counterculture Icon, Dies at 84 Anastos joined WABC as a reporter in June 1978 and would serve as an Eyewitness News anchor (though briefly replaced by Tom Snyder) through May 1989. He quit to join WCBS the next month and stayed there through 1995, when he chose to focus on his Anastos Media Group company, which owned radio and TV stations in upstate New York and New England. He also hosted the Lifetime program Our Home . After a stay at WWOR from 1997-2001, he returned to WCBS as the lead anchor at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. and was on duty during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In 2005, he moved to WNYW with a five-year, $10 million contract and worked there through 2019, when he enrolled in Harvard Business School to take leadership and management courses. While bantering with the weatherperson on the air in 2010, the clean-cut Anastos may have inadvertently used an obscenity when he said, “Keep plucking that chicken.” ...
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