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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. 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;〔()〕 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'' ; 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.〔(Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia ).〕 He retired from anchoring on November 30, 2007, ending a broadcasting career that began at a radio station in his hometown of Sharon, Pennsylvania. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marc Howard (news anchor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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