Sal Marchiano is a sportscaster

Sportscaster

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 who worked in New York

New York

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 radio

Radio

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 and television

Television

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 for forty years. In December 2008 he retired from his position as sports director and anchor for the WPIX

WPIX

WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network...

 Channel 11 News At Ten.

Marchiano began his sportscasting career in 1963, when he was known to mingle with the athletes he reported on.

Marchiano later worked at WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV

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, ESPN

ESPN

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, WABC-TV

WABC-TV

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, and WNEW radio. At WCBS, Marchiano worked alongside Jim Jensen

Jim Jensen

Harold James Jensen, usually known as Jim Jensen was a longtime American anchor and reporter, most notably at CBS' flagship station, WCBS-TV in New York.-Background:...

, preceding Warner Wolf

Warner Wolf

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 on the sports desk; while at WABC he replaced Howard Cosell

Howard Cosell

Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these...

. In the 1980s Marchiano was WNBC-TV's weekend sports anchor. He joined Channel 11 in 1994 as a weekend sportscaster, becoming the station's lead sportscaster in 1995.

With his retirement, former weekend sportscaster Lolita Lopez took over the station's weeknight sports reports. Marchiano's daughter Sam Marchiano

Sam Marchiano

Susan Anne "Sam" Marchiano is an American television sportscaster who has been broadcasting since the mid 1990s. She is currently a reporter with MLB.com, the official website of Major League Baseball....

 is also a sportscaster, working as an anchor and a correspondent with MLB.com

MLB.com

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