Anchors
Pat Ciarrocchi
Pat Ciarrocchi anchors CBS 3's Eyewitness News at noon with Ukee Washington.
Ciarrocchi joined Channel 3 in 1982. Prior to her current assignment, she set the pace for morning news in Philadelphia as the station's early morning news anchor, growing that program from a half-hour newscast to a two-hour staple in the market. Ciarrocchi has excelled in a variety of assignments at Channel 3 from Evening Magazine, which she co-hosted from 1991-92, traveling to Great Britain and Israel for special reports. She also served as the station's medical reporter for five years, but has done some of her most memorable work at the Vatican where she reported live at the canonization of St. Katherine Drexel in 2000 and then, from the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.
In addition to the Philadelphia Emmy Award, Ciarrocchi won the prestigious Gabriel Award from the National Catholic Association of Broadcasters, a CEBA Award recognizing communications excellence to Black audiences and a Sarah Award from Women in Communications locally. In 2000 she was inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in recognition of her accomplishments in the television industry.
Before returning home to Philadelphia, Ciarrocchi was anchor/reporter/producer for WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland for three years. She began her career in broadcasting in 1974 at WAMS Radio in Wilmington, but became captivated by reporting the news while on staff at WDEL Radio, Delaware's top-rated radio station.
Ciarrocchi has used the celebrity of her broadcasting career to better the lives of others, committing her personal time to community activism and fundraising on issues affecting women and children. She has served on the boards of the Easter Seal Society of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Susan G. Komen For The Cure. In 1989, she launched The Pat Ciarrocchi Golf Classic, which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local charities. She also founded Pat's Passion for Fashion Show and Auction, which, since 2000, has been raising funds for local charities.
Ciarrocchi has been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees for her professional and community accomplishments, one from Neumann College in Aston, Delaware County, one from Cabrini College in Radnor and one from her alma mater, Rosemont College. Ciarrocchi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Rosemont in 1974. In 2006, she was presented with the college's highest honor, the Cresset Award. A native of Chester County, she currently resides in Merion, Pennsylvania with her husband, David Fineman. She has two grown stepsons and, in her free time, she and her husband enjoy opera, travel and golf.