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Michele Marsh, Longtime New York TV Anchor, Dies At 63

Michele Marsh in the WCBS-TV newsroom in 1980. Among a group of women who swept into anchor roles in New York, she was the youngest. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Ms. Marsh graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in radio and television production.

She began her career at WABI-TV in Bangor, Me., where she ran the teleprompter with her toes while on the air. She told The Bangor Daily News in 1976 that she had gotten fan mail “from little boys who say, ‘Let’s run off together, my father owns an ice cream truck.’ ”

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After moving to KSAT-TV in San Antonio, she came to the attention of adults, too, becoming so popular that guards were assigned to fend off her admirers.

After only five months in New York, when she was still 25, she said her brown hair had already started turning gray. Before she left in 2003, she would win five local Emmy Awards in the nation’s most competitive market.

(Source: New York Times)

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