Rosanna Scotto

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Rosanna Scotto on Fox 5 News at 10 in 2005.

Rosanna Scotto (born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) co-anchors WNYW's FOX 5 newscasts at 5PM and 10PM with Ernie Anastos. Rosanna Scotto got her start in broadcasting at Atlanta's WTBS in 1980, and by 1982 she was working at WABC-TV as a reporter and morning anchor. She joined WNYW in 1986 as a weekend anchor and reporter.

[edit] Career

Rosanna began her career in television at WTBS, Ted Turner's UHF television station in Atlanta, where she was a reporter for two local programs and an associate producer of the station's evening newscast. She returned to her native New York City in 1982 as a reporter for WABC's Good Morning New York, which eventually became Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. After a year with Good Morning New York and The Morning Show Scotto joined WABC-TV's Eyewitness News as a reporter, where she remained until she joined FOX. She started at WNYW-TV in 1986 as a weekend anchor and reporter and later in 1994, she started anchoring the weekday edition of Fox 5 News. She has presented with John Roland, Len Cannon, and current co-anchor Ernie Anastos on the 5 P.M. and 10 P.M. weekday editions of Fox 5 News.

[edit] Personal

Rosanna (along with her mother Marion, sister Elaina, brothers John and Anthony Scotto) owns the celebrity-filled restaurant Fresco By Scotto on East 52nd Street in midtown Manhattan.

Scotto is married and has two children. Jenna Scotto, Rosanna's daughter currently hosts Teen Kids news. She currently resides in Manhattan.