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Michele Marsh (reporter)
Michele Marie Marsh (March 9, 1954 – October 17, 2017) was an American broadcast journalist, best known for her work at two network-owned television stations in New York City from 1979 to 2003. Early life and career Marsh grew up in suburban Detroit into a military family. Her parents were Howard Marsh, an insurance salesman, and the former Gloria Gadd. She had two brothers, Ronnie, who died at age 6 and John, who died at 21, who were both hemophiliacs, as was Marsh. She was partly raised in Philadelphia and in the San Diego area. She graduated from Grossmont High School in El Cajon, California and later from Northwestern University, where she majored in what has been described as radio and television production or theater. After her graduation from Northwestern in 1976, Marsh started her career as a reporter/anchor at WABI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Bangor, Maine. She reported in the field and anchored the 11 p.m. Monday-Friday newscasts, and the 6 p.m. Saturday newscast. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area, and the 14th-largest in the United States. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music, art, architecture and design, in addition to its historical automotive background. ''Time'' named Detroit as one of the fifty World's Greatest Places of 2022 to explore. Detroit is a major port on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively. The largest state by total area in New England, Maine is the 12th-smallest by area, the 9th-least populous, the 13th-least densely populated, and the most rural of the 50 U.S. states. It is also the northeasternmost among the contiguous United States, the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes, the only state whose name consists of a single syllable, and the only state to border exactly one other U.S. state. Approximately half the area of Maine lies on each side of the 45th parallel north in latitude. The most populous city in Maine is Portland, while its capital is Augusta. Maine has traditionally been known for its jagged, rocky Atlantic Ocean and bayshore coastlines; smoothly contoured mountains; heavily f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning news-talk show ''Good Morning America'', ''Nightline'', ''Primetime (American TV program), Primetime'', and ''20/20 (American TV program), 20/20'', and Sunday morning talk shows, Sunday morning political affairs program ''This Week (ABC TV series), This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. History Early years ABC began in 1943 as the Blue Network, NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was Corporate spin-off, spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Marash
David Marash, known as Dave Marash (born May 3, 1942), is an American television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English. Career A graduate of Williams College , Marash worked at New Brunswick, New Jersey, station WCTC-AM (1450), where he hosted a nightly talk show, ''Dave Marash On Call''. He had also been a reporter at WPIX. He did both news and sports reporting for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WNEW-FM in New York City. He subsequently worked at WCBS-TV in New York. Marash was host of ESPN's ''Baseball Tonight'' and NBC's ''GrandStand'', which alternated as a National Football League pregame show or a sports anthology series, depending on the season. In the early years of the Fox television network, Marash hosted a magazine-style show of science and technology entitled '' Beyond Tomorrow''. He then worked at ABC News. His last appearance prior to joining Al Jazeera English was on ''Nightline''. He had anchored newscasts at WNBC in New York and WRC-TV in Washi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Harper
Patricia Harper (July 3, 1934 – April 3, 1994) was an American television news anchor and reporter, and a fixture for nearly two decades on two New York City television stations. In 1975, she became the first woman to anchor a television news program in New York. Career Harper, who grew up in New York, worked at TV stations in Chicago and Philadelphia before making history as the first female news anchor in New York when she joined WPIX in 1975. She was initially paired at the anchor desk with her then husband, Joe Harper, who had anchored the station's nightly newscast since 1973. Despite a major advertising push, the ratings for '' Action News'' remained way behind ''The 10 O'Clock News'' on WNEW-TV, and the on-air pairing ended in early 1976, by which time they had been divorced in their private life. Joe Harper summarily retired from broadcasting after his run on WPIX ended (he died in 1983). In 1977, Pat returned to the anchor desk after an overhauling of ''Action News'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Licht
Judy Licht is an American television and print journalist whose work often focuses on the entertainment and fashion worlds. Born to Bernard and Eleanor Licht of New York, Licht graduated from Connecticut College and received her master's degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. For decades Licht has held many on-air positions in the New York metropolitan area, such as co-anchor of ''Good Morning New York'' on WABC-TV, as a reporter on WCBS-TV, WNYW-TV and WNYE-TV, and was long the main host of the fashion program '' Full Frontal Fashion''. She currently writes a column on the fashion world for ''The Huffington Post'' and has also written on fashion for such publications as '' Details'', '' New York '' and the New York '' Daily News''. Licht married prominent advertising executive Jerry Della Femina in 1983. They maintained a restaurant, Della Femina, in East Hampton, until it was sold early in 2011. Licht and Della Femina collaborated on a television program f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Ann Scamardella
Rose Ann Scamardella (born July 20, 1947) is a former anchorwoman of WABC-TV's ''Eyewitness News'' in New York City, and the inspiration for Gilda Radner's character "Roseanne Roseannadanna" on ''Saturday Night Live''. Biography Rose Ann Scamardella was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in sociology in 1968. After working for Gerald Freedman, a stockbroker, for "a couple of years" by her own account, she became the personnel director of an export company. By 1972, referred to in ''The Village Voice'' as "Roseann" Scamardella, she was working as what the paper identified only as a "television journalist". Accounts of her hiring at WABC-TV ''Eyewitness News'' vary. Howard Weinberg, a producer then with the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, owner of WNET, recounts that he "responded to concerns for newsroom diversity and he WABCNews Director's complaints that he couldn't find an Italian-American correspondent; found Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Simmons
Sue Simmons (born May 27, 1942) is an American retired news anchor who was best known for being the lead female anchor at WNBC in New York City from 1980 to 2012. Her contract with WNBC expired in June 2012 and WNBC announced that it would not renew it. Her final broadcast was on June 15, 2012, shortly after her 70th birthday. Early life and education Simmons grew up in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village; her father was John Simmons, a jazz bassist whose contemporaries included Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Lena Horne and Nat King Cole. She graduated from Julia Richman High School in 1961 and decided to work instead of going on to college.Cahalan, Susannah"The ‘Live!’ and times of TV’s legendary anchor Sue Simmons" ''The New York Post'', March 11, 2012. Career WNBC She began her career as a consumer action reporter at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut. She was with WBAL-TV in Baltimore from 1974 to 1976 where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolland Smith
Rolland G. Smith (born December 6, 1941) is an American poet, retired television news reporter and anchor who was based in New York for most of his long career. Broadcasting career Smith's earliest broadcasting job was for Metromedia Television, where he served as White House correspondent for WTTG.Rolland Smith profile kosmosjournal.org. Accessed September 18, 2022. Metromedia would later transfer him to New York, where he would become co-anchor of 's 10 PM newscast. Smith departed Metromedia for CBS in 1970, and instantly became a reporter and anchor for WCBS. In 1973 Smith was named co-anchor of WCBS' evening newscasts, a position he held for 13 years. His 11 P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Victoria Advocate
''The Victoria Advocate'' is a daily newspaper independently published in Victoria, Texas. It is the second-oldest paper in Texas and the oldest west of the Colorado River, dating back to May 8, 1846, following the Battle of Palo Alto during the Mexican War. The paper serves the communities of the Victoria metropolitan area, and currently runs a Sunday circulation of 27,268 issues. History The paper was founded in 1846 by publishers John D. Logan and Thomas Sterne of Van Buren, Arkansas, as a weekly publication named the ''Texan Advocate''. The two men had previously founded the ''Frontier Whig'' two years earlier, and like the ''Whig'', the ''Advocate'' was associated with the Whig Party during its initial stages. Famed journalist John Henry Brown was briefly employed as an editor for the paper in its first year. After the publication was renamed the ''Texian Advocate'', ownership changed hands several times during the 1850s. In 1859, it was bought by Sam Addison White, who ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorktown, Texas
Yorktown is a city in DeWitt County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,810 at the 2020 census. Geography Yorktown is located in southwestern DeWitt County at (28.983196, –97.502415). State Highways 72 and 119 intersect on the western side of town. Highway 72 leads northeast to Cuero and southwest to Kenedy, while Highway 119 leads northwest to Stockdale and south to Goliad. According to the United States Census Bureau, Yorktown has a total area of , all of it land. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Yorktown has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,810 people, 901 households, and 562 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,271 people, 864 households, and 584 families residing in the city. The population densi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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