Career
His reports focus on the problems, concerns and realities of everyday life, ranging from false advertising claims to cr card rip-offs and business swindles. Aarons has appeared on television stations in cities including New York City, Detroit and Pittsburgh. He appeared on W National Broadcasting Company in New York City from 1993 until the National Broadcasting Company 2.0 budget cuts in 2007.
He established the proprietary "Ask Asa" brand and developed the expression into a catchphrase for consumers seeking assistance.
His work was simultaneously featured on television and the station"s mobile Internet-based platform. Following W National Broadcasting Company, he was hired by local cable station NY1 News as its employment reporter.
In 1998, he began writing a newspaper column for the New York Daily News which appeared four times a week. He has made numerous guest appearances on The Today Show, nationally televised talk shows such as Maury Povich and Sally Jesse Raphael, and on programs on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and Consumer News and Business Channel. Before moving to New York, Aarons appeared from 1990 to 1993 on WDIV in Detroit, where he also wrote a consumer column for The Detroit News and hosted a consumer call-in radio shows.
He worked at WPXI in Pittsburgh from 1984 until 1990, where he also hosted a 30-minute consumer/health show called "Your Money or Your Life."
He worked in several smaller television markets in Ohio early in his career: Toledo, Youngstown, Cincinnati and Cleveland.
Aarons is a native of Toledo, Ohio. They have five children and live in the Savannah, Georgia area.