Rose Ann Scarmadella is a former anchorwoman of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in New York City. WABC-TV, channel 7 is the flagship station of the Walt Disney Company -owned American Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. Eyewitness News is a name used by local television newscasts widely used in different markets across the United States. The City of New York
A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in 1968, Scarmadella was originally a personnel director of a shipping company. Marymount Manhattan College is a small Coeducational Liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York. In 1974, she was hired by Eyewitness News producer Howard Weinberg, after she was interviewed on the program. Weinberg was responding to concerns about diversity in the WABC-TV newsroom and complaints from the then-News Director that he could not find an Italian-American correspondent. [1].
After coaching from Weinberg, Scarmadella started off as a reporter and later became an anchor for the broadcast. She was mostly known as a co-anchor with Ernie Anastos on the weeknight 11pm edition of Eyewitness News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Ernie Anastos (born July 12, 1943) is a Greek-American Emmy -award winning New York City television news anchor. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. She remained in that position until leaving WABC-TV in 1983. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
She returned to New York local television in May 1999 to present a two-part special report on the plight of Albanian refugees in Brooklyn for WNYW-TV's Ten O' Clock News. [2]
Infamously, Scarmadella was the inspiration for the name of Gilda Radner's character "Roseanne Roseannadanna" on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s. Gilda Susan Radner ( June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an Emmy Award -winning American Comedienne and Actress " Roseanne Roseannadanna " was one of three characters created by Gilda Radner (the others being Emily Litella and Lisa Loopner) who appeared in Saturday Night Live ( SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American Sketch comedy / Variety show based in New York City This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970.
She went on to teach at the Salisbury School in Salisbury, CT during the 1990s and into 2000. Salisbury School is an all-boys private College-preparatory school founded in 1901 and located in Salisbury Connecticut. Salisbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
After that time, Scamardella co-hosted a television show, Crossroads Magazine, with Father John Gatzak; it is produced in cooperation with the Office of Radio and Television of the Archdiocese of Hartford and airs on two Connecticut television stations, CW20 and MyTV9. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford is a Particular church of the Latin Rite in Hartford, Litchfield and New Haven counties Connecticut ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area She left in 2007.
References
- ^ Howard Weinberg resume
- ^ 'A Blast from the Past', American Journalism Review, July 1999.
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