Marc Howard (news anchor)

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Marc Howard
Born (1937-02-13) February 13, 1937 (age 86)
Sharon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality American
OccupationTelevision news anchor

Marc Howard (born February 13, 1937) is a retired longtime Philadelphia news anchor. He last anchored at KYW-TV beginning in 2003 when he fronted the late newscasts, but soon only anchored the 4 p.m. news.

Howard's television career began at WFMJ-TV in Youngstown, Ohio. One of Howard's duties was hosting a late afternoon movie program called Showtime. While the program initially followed a mainstream movie format, during the Monster Craze of the 1960s, the program almost exclusively featured horror and sci-fi movies Monday through Friday. As host, Howard did not appear as a horror host character but as himself. He moved to New York City in 1967 as one of the original members of WNEW-TV's Ten O'Clock News team. After a brief reporting stint at WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, Howard returned to New York as a reporter for WPIX in 1968, staying there until 1970 when he took a job as press secretary to Howard J. Samuels during his unsuccessful run for Governor of New York; [1] he later returned to WPIX as a political reporter.

Howard moved to Hartford, Connecticut, to work for WFSB as a reporter and weekend anchor, and then arrived in Philadelphia in 1977 to become the 5:30 p.m. co-anchor of WPVI's Action News ; [2] the newscast would expand to an hour in 1981. Howard would work at Action News alongside Jim O'Brien and later forming a long-running partnership with Lisa Thomas-Laury beginning in 1983.

In late 2002, he left after being hired at KYW-TV to replace Larry Kane on the 11 P.M. newscast. In addition to his anchoring duties, Howard also hosted the locally produced public affairs program Newsmakers, which focuses on a variety of political issues, both local and national, and airs on KYW-TV on Sunday mornings. [3]

He retired from anchoring on November 30, 2007, ending a broadcasting career that began at WPIC 790 am in his hometown of Sharon, Pennsylvania. [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ [ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Marc Howard, a Broadcast Pioneer". Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved 2006-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ↑ Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia.Retrieved2010-12-28.
  4. ↑ Dan Gross (November 25, 2007). "Marc Howard Signs Off For Good". www.philly.com. Retrieved December 28, 2010.
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Preceded by CBS 3 6pm & 11pm Eyewitness news anchor
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