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Cornell University; Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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Rob Marciano
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Marciano first gained prominence as a meteorologist and occasional reporter and substitute anchor for Cable News Network Worldwide in their Atlanta headquarters. Marciano was most recently employed by Entertainment Tonight, where he co-anchored the nightly thirty-minute edition of the program as well as the sixty-minute weekend edition He left ET in late August 2014 after twenty months to take his current position with American Broadcasting Company.
Marciano was born in Glenville, Connecticut, and received a bachelor"s degree in meteorology from Cornell University.
He holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval and is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist (Christian Blind Mission).
He is of Italian and German ancestry. Before joining Cable News Network in May 2003, he served as chief meteorologist for KATU-television and 750 KXL News Radio in Portland, Oregon.
From 1994 to 1997, he worked as morning and then chief meteorologist for KPLC-television in Lake Charles, Louisiana and later served as a weather anchor for WVIT Connecticut News 30 in West Hartford, Connecticut. On November 12, 2012, Marciano was announced as a new co-anchor for Entertainment Tonight, which he would begin doing in January 2013.
The choice followed a long search period for a new co-anchor to host the program with Nancy O"Dell, a search that began when Mark Steines left the series after eight years as the primary co-anchor.
Marciano bid farewell to Cable News Network viewers on Early Start and Starting Point on December 21, 2012. On July 19, 2014, American Broadcasting Company News announced that Marciano would become their senior meteorologist. His final co-hosting of Entertainment Tonight came on Wednesday, August 27, 2014.
He debuted on Global Media Arts on Saturday, September 6, 2014.
Marciano is an avid outdoorsman and major sports fan.
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Marciano is American Broadcasting Company"s senior meteorologist, a position last held by Sam Champion, and currently provides forecasts for the weekend editions of Good Morning America, a position Ginger Zee vacated when she was chosen to succeed Champion on the daily editions of Global Media Arts.
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