He worked at WABC's Eyewitness News for 11 years and Fox’s WNYW for another 14 and had two stints at WCBS in between.

Ernie Anastos, the famed news anchor from New York City who spent nearly one and a half decades with Fox’s WNYW, died on Thursday, March 12, 2026. In his decades-long career, Anastos was highly ...

Natasha Verma has joined WNYW New York and will co-anchor the weekday 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts with Steve Lacy. She starts October 24 and succeeds Lori Stokes, who retired. Verma comes from KUSA ...

NEW YORK — Writer-producers at FOX Television Stations flagship WNYW-5 in New York, led by Jack Abernethy on an executive level and SVP/GM Lew Leone on the local level, has unanimously ratified a new ...

It’s the biggest night for one of broadcasting’s most outstanding charitable organizations, and WNYW-TV in New York anchor Natasha Verma is set to emcee the Broadcasters Foundation of America’s 2026 ...

Channel 5 has a new news director: Byron Harmon, who was promoted from senior executive producer. The veteran newsman was also promoted to vice president. Dianne Doctor, previous news director at WNYW ...

WNYW-TV has landed rerun rights to Sony Pictures TV’s “The King of Queens” in New York. The parties wouldn’t discuss the license fee, but Sony has spent more than a year talking to WNYW, WPIX and WCBS ...

It’s a whole new way to see the news. That is, at least, what WNYW/Ch. 5 anchor Ernie Anastos and the station’s news director, Byron Harmon, hope to do this summer. Monday will mark the unveiling of ...

NEW YORK — Fox O&O WNYW New York found out the hard way that nothing lasts forever. For the first time in sweeps history, WNYW’s weeknight hourlong newscast at 10 failed to finish ahead of its two ...