\n<\/aside>\nYears later, she went on to work with Anastos at WNYW.<\/p>\n
\u201cLo and behold, a number of years later, I had the honor of anchoring with Ernie on the 10 o\u2019clock news,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was a terrific newsman\u2014compassionate and fair.\u201d <\/p>\n
Scotto said she learned so much from Anastos \u2014 including how to \u201cstay cool under pressure\u201d and the importance of giving back to the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved working with him,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are all heartbroken to hear that he\u2019s passed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loved ones confirmed Anastos\u2019 death to ABC 7 News on Thursday. He was 82. <\/p>\n
This story is developing\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosanna Scotto mourned the loss of her former Fox 5 New York co-anchor Ernie Anastos after the local news icon passed away. \u201cWhen I was in college, I had the opportunity to be introduced to Ernie and ask him what it would take to get into the TV business,\u201d Scotto told Page Six in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22062,24003,25404,22391,450624,446060,21913],"class_list":["post-2325508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-deaths","tag-celebrity-news","tag-exclusive","tag-fox-news","tag-news-anchors","tag-rosanna-scotto","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Heartbroken-Rosanna-Scotto-mourns-former-co-anchor-Ernie-Anastos-after-news.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325510,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325508\/revisions\/2325510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}