Marciarose back on Channel 3?
In honor of Eyewitness News' 45th anniversary, the station - then KYW, now billed as CBS3 - will have its first anchor back in the studio to do live news cut-ins during Wednesday's edition of Talk Philly, the noon show.
It was at noon on Monday, Aug. 30, 1965, when Marciarose - properly Marciarose Shestack, as she's been married for 59 years to legal lion Jerry Shestack - launched the nation's first Eyewitness News with coanchor Tom Snyder at her left elbow. (Snyder died in 2007.)
On Monday, Marciarose stopped at the station for a run-through. Though she said she had not anchored in at least 25 years, "the juices were flowing and the heart was pumping. I was hoping it was like riding a bicycle," she said. "And it was. But the last time I was in front of a camera, there were cameramen there. It's hard getting used to a robotic camera."