Full Name Marysol Castro Years active 2000–present | Name Marysol Castro Role TV Personality | |
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Occupation former anchor pix 11 morning news Spouse Christopher Poole (m. 2011) TV shows Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Profiles | ||
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Marysol Castro is an American broadcast journalist who was employed as a news anchor at WPIX in New York. She also was a weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS in 2011 and a features correspondent for the weekend edition of Good Morning America on ABC from 2004 to 2010. In June 2015 Castro joined New Haven-based WTNH-TV to fill in for weekday morning traffic reports and anchor until mid-November 2015.
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- Marysol castro keeping it classy not wtnh news 8
- Marysol castro storms out after bills newz
- Early life and career
- References
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Early life and career
Born on July 8, 1974, to Puerto Rican parents in New York City, Castro was raised in the Bronx and attended Public School 83 and Intermediate School 181. She was later admitted to the Oliver Scholars Program, an independent school access program for high-achieving students of color, and attended Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996. She later obtained a Master of Arts in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Prior to her career with ABC News, Castro was a general assignment reporter for WPIX in New York. She worked as a reporter for News 12, a local cable news network in the Bronx. She taught briefly at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn as an English teacher. In September 2010, Castro left GMA Weekend. On January 3, 2011, as part of a complete show overhaul, Castro became the weekday weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS replacing Dave Price. On September 2, 2011, it was announced that she would be leaving her post as weather anchor effective immediately.
In June 2015, Castro joined WTNH-TV ABC 8 in New Haven, Connecticut, to fill in as weekday morning traffic reporter and anchor. Castro was relieved of her fill-in duties in November 2015 and later left the station.
In July 2015, she joined ESPN as host of Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN.
