Mary Alice Demler (born July 8, 1964), is
Miss New York
The Miss New York scholarship competition selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America scholarship competition.
In the fall of 2018, the Miss America Organization terminated the Miss New York organization's license ...
1990, a television journalist and
news anchor
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for
WGRZ
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in
Buffalo, New York
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.
Biography
Maryalice Demler anchors Channel 2 News at 5:30, 6:00, 10:00, and 11:00. She joined Channel 2 in September 1993. She attended
Niagara University
Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and has 3,300 undergraduate students in 50 academic programs. App ...
, graduating in 1986 with a B. A. in Political Science, and a B. A. in French.
She won the title of
Miss New York
The Miss New York scholarship competition selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America scholarship competition.
In the fall of 2018, the Miss America Organization terminated the Miss New York organization's license ...
in 1990
and participated in
Miss America 1991
Miss America 1991, the 64th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 8, 1990 on NBC Network.
Results Placements
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on September 7, 1990. On April 18, 2010, The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored Demler with the New York Emmy Award for the Best News Anchor - On Camera Talent category. She is the first Buffalo-area news Anchor to receive the Best News Anchor award.
She has been the executive director of the Miss Buffalo Pageant for several years (Miss America Preliminary) and has taken her titleholders to Miss New York. She runs the Canal Fest Pageant of the Tonawandas and she ran the Miss Erie County Fair Pageant for several years. She is very involved in community service and is a journalist. She has been voted Western New York's favorite news anchor many times. She does her hair and makeup herself before coming on air.
Demler was married to Nathan Marton from 1996 to 2013. She dated Joseph Murphy from 2018 until Murphy's unexpected death in February 2019.
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WGRZ's Maryalice Demler
1964 births
Living people
American television news anchors
Journalists from New York (state)
Miss New York winners
Miss America 1991 delegates
New York (state) Republicans
Niagara University alumni
Television personalities from Buffalo, New York
People from North Tonawanda, New York
American women television journalists
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