Rose Ann Scamardella

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Rose Ann Scarmadella is a former anchorwoman of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in New York City.

A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in 1968, Scarmadella was originally a personnel director of a shipping company. 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. She remained in that position until leaving WABC-TV in 1983.

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.^{[citation needed]}

She went on to teach at the Salisbury School in Salisbury, CT during the 1990s and into 2000.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]} She left in 2007.

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