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Rose Ann Scamardella
Rose Ann Scamardella (born 1947) is a former anchorwoman of WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" in New York City, and the inspiration for Gilda Radner's character "Roseanne Roseannadanna" on "Saturday Night Live".
Biography.
Rose Ann Scamardella graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in sociology in 1968. After working for Gerald Freedman, a stockbroker, for "a couple of years" by her own account, she became the personnel director of an export company. By
in New York hired Anastos and he became anchor of the 11:00 pm "Eyewitness News" broadcast in November, a position that opened when Larry Kane left the station after one year and returned to Philadelphia. He anchored that broadcast with Rose Ann Scamardella until 1983 and later replaced Storm Field as Kaity Tong's co-anchor at 5:00 pm. Except for a brief period beginning in 1983 when WABC hired Tom Snyder to be anchor, Anastos helmed the 5:00 and 11:00 pm newscasts until 1989, co-anchoring at 5 and 11