Marcus Solis Facts: Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Family, and Net Worth

Marcus Solis is a journalist and general assignment reporter for WABC-TV.

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Best Known For:The television program Eyewitness News

Breakthrough:Grew up in the Bronx and developed an early ambition to work for New York's Eyewitness News

Marcus Solis's exact age is not publicly confirmed.

He attended Syracuse University.

Marcus Solis' career includes news and reporting roles with WABC-TV, a television station and WDTV.

Organization: WABC-TV

Role: General Assignment Reporter

Period: 1997–Present

Details: New York metropolitan area

Organization: WDTV

Role: Television Journalist

Period: Before 1997

Details: Clarksburg, West Virginia · Worked in television news before returning to the New York metropolitan media market.

Organization: NY1

Role: News Anchor and Reporter

Period: Four years before joining WABC-TV in 1997

Details: New York, New York · Worked for approximately four years as an anchor and reporter for New York 1 News.

Organization: WFAS AM-FM

Role: Broadcast Journalist

Period: Early career

Details: White Plains, New York · Began his professional broadcasting career in radio.

Marcus Solis rose to prominence for his role on the television show ABC7 Eyewitness News.

Notable media work includes ABC7 Eyewitness News, NY1 News, and September 11 Eyewitness News Coverage.

TV Show: ABC7 Eyewitness News (General Assignment Reporter, From 1997) — WABC-TV news reporting throughout the New York metropolitan area and on selected international assignments
TV Show: NY1 News (News Anchor and Reporter, Before 1997) — Local television reporting and anchoring in New York City

Work: September 11 Eyewitness News Coverage (Contributing Reporter, 2001) — Participated in WABC-TV's reporting during the September 11 attacks and their aftermath
Work: Haiti Earthquake Reporting (Field Reporter, 2010) — Reported from Haiti after the earthquake
Work: Newtown School Shooting Coverage (Lead Station Reporter, 2012) — Led WABC-TV coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

September 11 attacks and aftermath - WABC-TV - 2001 - Contributed to WABC-TV's coverage of the September 11 attacks, which received a Peabody Award
2010 Haiti earthquake - WABC-TV - 2010 - Was among the early New York journalists reporting from Haiti following the devastating earthquake
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting - WABC-TV - 2012 - Led the station's reporting coverage of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut
Hurricanes in Puerto Rico - WABC-TV - Reported from Puerto Rico on hurricanes and their effects
Cuban dissident movement - WABC-TV - Filed international reports examining dissident activity in Cuba
Papal visits in Mexico - WABC-TV - Reported on papal visits in Mexico City
Newark residential fire - ABC7 New York - 2026 - Reported on a three-alarm residential fire in Newark, New Jersey, in August 2026

Peabody Award – September 11 Coverage — Peabody Awards — Member of WABC-TV's news team whose coverage of the September 11 attacks received a Peabody Award.

Solis grew up in the Bronx watching the same Eyewitness News program he later joined as a reporter.
Joining WABC-TV was a longstanding professional ambition before he was hired in 1997.
His earliest broadcasting experience included radio work at WFAS AM-FM in White Plains.
Before ABC7, he worked in television news in West Virginia and New York City.
His reporting assignments have taken him to Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Haiti.
He was among the early New York journalists to report from Haiti following the January 2010 earthquake.