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Ernie Anastos

Ernie Anastos (born July 12, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning news anchor for New York City's Fox 5 News at 6:00 p.m.Anastos is a Hall of Fame Broadcaster and has won more than 30 Emmy awards and nominations, including "Best Newscast in New York" and the Edward R. Murrow Award for broadcast excellence. The New York Times recently described him as "the ubiquitous anchorman."After graduating from Northeastern University, Anastos worked as a news man at 98.5/WROR in Boston, as Ernie Andrews. In 1976, Anastos moved to television, becoming an anchor at WPRI-TV in Providence. Two years later, WABC-TV in New York hired Anastos and he became anchor of the 11:00 pm Eyewitness News broadcast, a position that opened when Larry Kane left the station after one year. He anchored that broadcast with Rose Ann Scamardella until 1983 and later replaced Storm Field as Kaity Tong's co-anchor at 5:00 pm. Except for a brief period beginning in 1983 when WABC hired Tom Snyder to be anchor, Anastos helmed the 5:00 and 11:00 pm newscasts until 1989, co-anchoring at 5 and 11 with Tong and Roz Abrams at 5 from 1986 to 1989. Wikipedia