WPIX Adds Scott Stanford To Evening Anchor Team

Tribune-owned CW affiliate WPIX New York (DMA 1) today unveiled its new evening news anchor team. Scott Stanford will join the PIX11 News at 5 and the PIX11 News at 10 to anchor alongside Tamsen Fadal weekdays beginning Sept. 16.

Stanford joins Tamsen and weathercaster Irv Gikofsky from NBC where he has most recently been the sports anchor for WNBC New York, the fill-in host for The Crossover on NBCSN and the news anchor on WNBC’s COZI TV (formerly New York Nonstop.)  Stanford is also an in-studio host for WWE.

Stanford has also worked in the New York market at WNYW and WWOR. Prior to joining WWOR, Stanford was the full-time afternoon sports anchor on WCBS-AM. He began his broadcast career on radio at WFAS White Plains, N.Y., and WRKL New City, N.Y.

Stanford has also been a play-by-play announcer for college basketball and arena football. In addition, he has been heard as an announcer and voice-over artist for many national television programs including The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the GQ Men of the Year Awards.

Stanford received a degree in broadcasting and communications from the State University of New York at Oswego.