WSAZ, NBC's affiliate in
Charleston, West Virginia, hired Gargiulo in 1984 to host the local edition of the syndicated show
PM Magazine. He then worked as a reporter and anchor at
WYOU, the
CBS affiliate in
Scranton, Pennsylvania. In the early 1990s, he went to
WLKY in
Louisville, Kentucky—then an
ABC affiliate; now part of CBS—as a reporter. From 1993 to 1997, he was a reporter and anchor at
KSTP-TV in
Minneapolis. He served as the
Washington, D.C., correspondent for
Hearst-Argyle Television from 1997 to 2000, and then anchored the morning newscast on
WTTG, a
Fox-owned station in Washington, from 2000 to 2006. In July 2006, Gargiulo joined WNBC as a general assignment reporter and was then named anchor of
Weekend Today in New York. In October 2007, he was named anchor of the station's 5:30pm newscast along with
Sue Simmons, and he replaced
Rob Morrison as co-anchor of
Today in New York in May 2008. At WNBC, he was also a co-host of
Nonstop Rundown, with Erika Tarantal and Tracie Strahan. As an anchor at WNBC, he has led coverage of many major news events, including
Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, the commissioning of the
USS New York, President
Barack Obama's visit to
Ground Zero after
Osama bin Laden's death, Hurricanes
Irene and
Sandy, the
New York Giants' ticker-tape parade, the
2012 Empire State Building shooting, the
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and the death of Mayor
Ed Koch. In 2014, he traveled to eastern Afghanistan to cover the last deployment of a unit of the
United States Army's 10th Mountain Division. He reported on the same division in Iraq in 2007, and had also reported from Kuwait and Iraq in 2004. Gargiulo has occasionally appeared on the
Nickelodeon series
Team Umizoomi, playing a reporter. ==Awards and honors==