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Ernie Anastos (bornJuly 12, 1943; age 81) played a news anchor during Season 8 of 24. He has been a career professional news anchor for decades.
Biography and career[]
Ernie Anastos was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He studied at Northeastern University. After graduating, Anastos started working at 98.5 WROR in Boston, as Ernie Andrews. In 1976, Anastos moved to television, becoming an anchor at WPRI-TV in Providence.
Through his career, Anastos has worked as a news anchor at Channel 2 Action News, Eyewitness News, and Fox 5 News at 10. Aside of his career as a reporter, he has appeared in films like Independence Day, Summer of Sam, and Run All Night.
Anastos is also a writer and entrepreneur. He was the owner of several radio stations in the New York area.
24 credits[]
Selected filmography[]
- Run All Night (2015)
- The Sitter (2011)
- Summer of Sam (1999)
- Independence Day (1996)
Television appearances
- 24 (2010)
- 100 Centre Street (2001)
External links[]
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Ernie Anastos
American news anchor (born 1943)
Ernie Anastos (born July 12, 1943) is a New York Emmy award winning television news anchor and talk show host on WABC (770 AM) with Positively Ernie focusing on uplifting stories and interviews.[1][2][3] He is also a children’s author and host of his own nationally syndicated TV show, Positively America.[4][5][6] He has anchored the evening news at four flagship network stations in New York: UPN 9 (now My9), ABC 7, CBS 2 and FOX 5.[7][8][9] In 2017, New York City MayorBill de Blasio honored Anastos by designating every March 21 to be Ernie Anastos Day.[10]
Anastos is a Hall of Fame Broadcaster and has received 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."[11][12] He is an author of career and educational books for young readers. Anastos also is
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HALL OF FAME
Ernie Anastos (born July 12, 1943) is a veteran New York City television news anchor. He has worked for several television stations in New York City over his twenty-five-year career.
He served as an anchor at WABC-TV from 1978 to 1989, when he joined WCBS-TV as the 5 and 11PM anchor. He worked at WCBS-TV for the first time from 1989-1994. He then joined WWOR-TV in 1997, and served as an anchor at that station until 2000, when he rejoined WCBS in January 2001. He left WCBS for the second time in 2005, after signing a $10 million dollar 5-year contract with WNYW-TV. His first day at WNYW was July 5, 2005. At Fox 5 he is partnered with Rosanna Scotto on the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts.
Ernie Anastos is a distinguished Emmy-award winning news anchor at WNYW FOX 5 in New York City, the nation’s top television market and media capital of the world. He is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston and has lived in Westchester County for more than 25 years, first in Larchmont (Rouken Glen), then Harrison (off Park Drive South), and now Armonk. Ernie Anastos is a mem
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