Marc Howard (news anchor)
Marc Howard | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 13, 1937 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Television 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 the late Jim O'Brien and later forming a long-running partnership with Lisa Thomas-Laury beginning in 1983.
Then in late 2002, he suddenly left after it was announced that he was being hired at KYW-TV to replace Larry Kane on the 11 P.M. newscast for a rumored $800,000 a year. 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]
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- ^ [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved 2006-08-12.
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- ^ Dan Gross (November 25, 2007). "Marc Howard Signs Off For Good". www.philly.com. Retrieved December 28, 2010.