Marysol Castro is a public address announcer at

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, home of the

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. She is also an American broadcast journalist who is employed as a morning news anchor at

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in New York City, a weather forecaster for ''

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'' on CBS in 2011, and a features correspondent for the weekend edition of ''

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'' on ABC from 2004 to 2010. In June 2015, Castro joined New Haven-based WTNH-TV to fill in for weekday morning traffic reports and anchor until mid-November 2015. In January 2019, Castro joined the booth of the Android and iOS app BallparkDJ making it possible for any youth softball or baseball team to be announced by her professional voice. Castro is the creator & host of Somos, a show that profiles Latinos of all walks of life.

Early life and career

Born on July 8, 1974, to Puerto Rican parents in New York City, Castro was raised in the Bronx and attended Public School 83 and Intermediate School 181. She was later admitted to the Oliver Scholars Program, an independent school access program for high-achieving students of color, and attended

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, a

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and graduated from

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, with a

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degree in 1996. She later obtained a

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in journalism from the

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. Prior to her career with

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, Castro was a general assignment reporter for

in New York. She worked as a reporter for News 12, a local cable news network in the Bronx. She taught briefly at Poly Prep Country Day School in

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as an English teacher. In September 2010, Castro left '' GMA Weekend''. On January 3, 2011, as part of a complete show overhaul, Castro became the weekday weather forecaster for ''

'' on CBS replacing Dave Price. On September 2, 2011, it was announced that she would be leaving her post as weather anchor effective immediately. In June 2015, Castro joined WTNH-TV ABC 8 in New Haven, Connecticut, to fill in as weekday morning traffic reporter and anchor. Castro was relieved of her fill-in duties in November 2015 and later left the station. In July 2015, she joined

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as host of ''Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN''. Castro was named the new public address announcer at Citi Field for the

, on May 30, 2018, replacing Alex Anthony whom was fired the same year. She shares PA duties with weekday announcer Colin Cosell (grandson of Howard Cosell) working on weekends. Castro's first game was May 31, 2018, against the

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. Castro is the first female PA announcer in the Mets' history. In 2023, she returned to

as a weekday morning news anchor.

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