Kate Kelly has all but departed KPIX --her profile has been diminished considerably of late with her contribution to CBS SF consisting of profiling Bay Area community award winners.
Kelley is one of my favorite SF TV anchors --I noted she was regarded as the "Princess Grace of SF TV Anchors."
Her duties with Dave McElhatton and Doug Murphy garnered her considerable industry praise and she was one of the Bay Area's top anchors.
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Her 'duties' with Doug Murphy. Yeah, that's one way to describe it. RIP Murph!
ReplyDeleteWith all her Stanford education, she never struck me as all that smart.
ReplyDeleteStanford is a beautiful campus, and has a lot of resources and has graduated a lot of smart people. However, just attending or even graduating does not necessarily make one smart; I work part time on campus and am amazed at the denseness of some of the students (and I'm not talking about the large percentage who are foreign born and have an excuse for being perceived as dense, I'm talking about North American kids who might be sharp at one particular thing, but don't get basic things like reading signs and following instructions, or riding a bicycle safely, and many more common sense items).
DeleteThe people I have known who have met Kelly stated that she is very pleasant and down-to-earth. Not the traits some would expect from a Stanford educated Marinite.
DeleteI take it you've never worked with engineers. I worked with a CEO who was brilliant in product design but the worst driver I've ever known.
DeleteActually, the smartest kids don't go to Stanford. The kids who go to Stanford are sorta smart but very social and group-oriented. The very smartest kids go to Cal Tech, Berkeley, MIT, etc.
DeleteI think that's kinda splitting hairs - I think if you're getting over 1900 or 2000 on an SAT score, you have your pick.
DeleteFresno State, Harvard of the West!!
DeleteWithout a doubt one of my all-time favorite female anchors, and sorely missed since her early retirement. (Cheryl Jennings is still going strong, why not Kate??) I especially enjoyed her interplay with sports anchor Wayne Walker -- you could see that they were genuinely very fond of each other and not just happytalking like some of their contemporaries ...
ReplyDeleteShe's getting old, maybe a little shelf-worn. Not as vibrant as in those early years, the sparkle in her eyes has faded. Being let out to pasture, what else could be expected? She's past her peak. Time to move on to the latest thing.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping for more cliches.
Deletere: vibrancy, I suspect we could say that about Muhammad Ali too! He relied on speed in his early days. After he came back, he boxed smarter, a lot more sidestepping a la rope a dope.
DeleteI liked Kelly in her early days and how she brought her vibrancy to another level.
To annon @ 10:51 am, I daresay you're not as vibrant as you were earlier in your life.
Ouch, Anonymous! Boy, it seems that you've never been a fan of hers. I liked Kelly in her early days. She is still as vibrant, each time that I caught her reports.
DeleteI have to agree with anony @ 10:19 am.
Speaking of departures, has Liz Cook's makeup artist departed? Liz looked positively ashen last night.
ReplyDeleteMayhaps she's doing penance for the measles outbreak at Dad's amusement park?
Any details like what she's been doing for KPIX since 1998? That's a long time to get a paycheck for doing nothing on air I've seen.
ReplyDeleteIs she a producer? Executive?
Who has time to look into this?
Kelly was doing their "Jefferson Awards" segment, and I could have sworn I heard her announce her retirement on-air a couple weeks ago. Kelly's Jefferson Awards replacement is Liz Cook. Some will say that is going from the sublime to the ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteYep. I saw the same broadcast.
DeleteShe is, and always has been, a class act. Best of luck to Kate wherever she lands.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree.
DeleteHow old is she?
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DeleteAnonymous January 24 is incorrect. I believe she is in her late 50's.
DeleteWait What ???!! Liz Cook will be doing Kates duties ? That just means someone else will be shooting and writing the stories and Liz shows up for a standup or maybe not. She has never gotten her hands dirty in the trenches. She has no street cred at all !!
ReplyDeleteShe interviewed me for a story in the 80's. I tried to hit on her, nice and charming as could be, even followed up, and got nowhere. I admire that, those are the ones I remember, the easy ones were a dime a dozen.
ReplyDeleteThe woman turned down some very rich and very famous men, so don't feel bad. She is a doll and I'm lucky to have worked with her.
DeleteKind of redundant. Kate has essentially been retired since the late 90's. The "Jefferson Awards" is basically all she has been doing for well over a decade.
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ReplyDeleteKate Supple
Imagine the books she could be writing...Broad Casting While Blonde; From Behind The Scenes!" The Drama, the Discipline with Ego Triangulations, the Career Management and it's country cousin, Career Sabotage thrown in too for good measure.
ReplyDeleteDanille Steele, eat your heart out!