WPIX Expands Weekday Morning News

Beginning Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, WPIX New York’s PIX11 Morning News will add a 9 a.m. hour to its weekday newscast, expanding the broadcast by an hour, from 4:30 to 10 am. PIX11 Morning News will also add two featured reporters, Marysol Castro and Ben Aaron.

The PIX11 Morning News will continue to be anchored by Kala Rama and Craig Treadway (4:30-6 a.m.) and Betty Nguyen and Dan Mannarino (6-10.)

Marissa Torres will continue to provide traffic from 4:30 to 10, as well as deliver weather from 4:30 to 6, and meteorologist Byron Miranda will continue to deliver weather forecasts from 6 to 10.

Marysol Castro, who had previously worked at WPIX as the traffic reporter when the PIX11 Morning News launched in 2001, and again as an anchor in 2013, will return to the station as a featured reporter.

Previously, Castro was a weather anchor at Good Morning America and CBS’s The Early Show. She also worked on-air at ESPN as host and sideline reporter for the Little League World Series, Invictus Games and Premier Boxing Champions. Most recently, Castro was named the first female public address announcer for the New York Mets, making her the first Latina PA announcer in Major League Baseball. Castro holds an M.A. in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in government and English from Wesleyan University.

Ben Aaron joins WPIX after a two-year run as co-host of the nationally syndicated Pickler & Ben with Kellie Pickler, for which he earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for “Best Host.” He also spent 10 years at New York Live as a feature reporter where his segments garnered four Emmy Awards. Aaron has also worked for Extra, Entertainment Tonight, and the Today Show, and recently teamed up with his wife, Ginger Zee, chief meteorologist for Good Morning America, on an Emmy nominated home renovation show on the DIY Network called Renovation Realities. Aaron holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in media from Emerson College.