Career
He last anchored at KYW-television beginning in 2003 when he fronted the late newscasts, but soon only anchored the 4 p.m. news. Howard"s television career began at WFMJ-television in Youngstown, Ohio. After a brief reporting stint at WPRI-television in Providence, Rhode Island, Howard returned to New York as a reporter for WPIX in 1968, staying there until 1970 when he took a job as press secretary to Howard J. Samuels during his unsuccessful run for Governor of New New York
He later returned to WPIX as a political reporter.
Howard moved to Hartford, Connecticut to work for WFSB as a reporter and weekend anchor, and then arrived in Philadelphia in 1977 to become the 5:30 p.m. co-anchor of WPVI"s Action News Archived February 15, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. The newscast would expand to an hour in 1981.
Then in late 2002, he suddenly left after it was announced that he was being hired at KYW-television to replace Larry Kane on the 11 P.M. newscast for a rumored $800,000 a year. In addition to his anchoring duties, Howard also hosted the locally produced public affairs program Newsmakers, which focuses on a variety of political issues, both local and national, and airs on KYW-television on Sunday mornings.
He retired from anchoring on November 30, 2007, ending a broadcasting career that began at a radio station in his hometown of Sharon, Pennsylvania.