Legacy Stations and Legacy People; Saturday Flashback; KTVU/KPIX/KRON/Circle7; Radio Too: Old KCBS; Melrose; Pete Wilson; Evan White; Kate Kelly; Dave McElhatton; Wendy Tokuda; Leslie Griffith; Doug Murphy; Dennis Richmond; Vic Lee; And The Extraordinary Belva Davis
LEGACY STATIONS --they were great and they had great people.
They were never coaxed into creating artificial noise and drama. They didn't have to, they simply did their job and let everything else speak for itself.
KTVU had more than a first-rate news operation. They had energy and camaraderie galore. They had buzz and gusto. Even in a news environment known for its matter-of-fact edict, KTVU was energy and spirit. Everybody couldn't wait to get to work and file their story. Of course, when you have people like Fred Zehnder in charge, the rest is history.
Dennis Richmond, Elaine Corral, Claud Mann, wait, "our" Claud Mann!
PEOPLE:
To this day, I rank Evan White (KGO/KRON) right up there as one of the great Bay Area TV News anchors. About as cool and calm/collected as ever. I believe Evan is alive and well today living in SF.
Dave McElhatton was about as pro a pro--and a GOOD, NICE man to boot. A SF State alum, he transitioned from radio (KCBS) to TV, (KPIX) and was HOF at both places. Dear Mac, you're still MISSED.
You and Wendy (Tokuda): Bay Area cool.
DON'T FORGETKate Kelly. I won't. As graceful and bouyant a Bay Area anchor could be. I called her the Princess Grace of local news and one of the very best.
I'm not supposed to say some woman TV News anchor is beautiful. BS, Kate Kelly is beautiful.
*PETE WILSON, we lost you way too soon-at KGO and KRON, Pete was pretty damn good and funny; to wit:
*Leslie Griffith, you also. A vastly underrated anchor who not only read well but was great in the field too. Ms. Griffith was troubled at the end of her professional/personal life--consumed with a multitude of issues but her work was mostly extraordinary.
*I can't say it enough: KCBS' legacy street reporter, Bob Melrose was the VERY BEST. Boy could Mel turn a story around so quickly and read it live and make it stunningly vivid.
*Doug Murphy was TV's version of Bob Melrose --but Doug did more: news anchoring, sports too. My beer buddy at Kings X/Oakland and good friend of Kate Kelly.
*YO, Van, Jerry, Peter, John, you will never be forgotten: the greatest TV News team ever...the birthplace of Happy Talk.
*DENNIS RICHMOND: a Bay Area news veteran giant who worked his way up from early KTVU --the 60's the late 2000's. Dennis, hard to believe it's been fifteen years since you retired.
*VIC LEE: your tenacious style! Talk about true grit. Print beginnings and later, TV News royalty. Miss your work on Circle7.
FINALLY and with significant notice:
Dear Ms. BELVA DAVIS...
You are eternal class and grace. I will always treasure your wit, style and Bay Area news edict. Your work as a journalist is paramount to all of us.
Cannot believe that Mac, Doug, Pete and Leslie are gone! Too soon. Murphys house fire is so odd!! Never know what you got until its gone except for the people who never knew how good it was!!
Thanks for this mornings extraordinary article, yes, in those days you could tune in to every channel and enjoy classy, truthful and unbiased news reporting (also thanks to the behind the scenes people); you can also have your favorite anchors, reporters and! SPORTS anchors and reporters! Truly gone are these classy people that made you feel at home, thanks for the memories, Rich
@ 6:10: Not knocking you but The Examiner used to be a great afternoon paper but has steadily declining since the 80's...hindsight is 20/20, no? Compare to what we have now makes the media back then All Cronkites...
Great stroll down memory lane. For me Dave McEllhatton was one of the best if not the best anchors they Bay Area has ever seen. Just solid and likable behind the desk. He and Wendy Tokuda drove KPIX to some of its highest ratings ever at the time. And NightCast was a brand well marketed and worth watching at 11pm on CBS.
And of course who could forget one of the greatest reporters of that period, Mike Hegedus. He had a voice and a style reminiscent of radios longtime voice, Paul Harvey. Don't remember much about those days but always remembered how he stood out in the field of curious reporters back then.
Dennis Richmond was a solid, handsome, straight no chaser newsman. And someone who looked like us (black folk). People may poo-poo diversity all they want but that really does make a difference in how people are perceived from both sides. Nice to see we've made some strides as evidenced in some of the news anchors we have today. Hopefully the people behind the scenes calling the shots are reflective of the audiences they report on as well.
McElhatton was tremendous, but giving Wendy Tokuda a share of the credit for driving ratings up is a total joke. Tokuda was the weak link of that team and was carried by Dave. One of my professors in the SFSU Broadcasting Dept. had a field day with the numerous malaprops by Ms. Tokuda.
Ms Belva still alive and hopefully well! Same with Mr.Lee. Class acts have to be looked up in dictionary since media honchos think class means cute! NOT!!!
Another entry, worthy of praise: Spencer Michaels. Smart, superb at asking the important questions, did not tolerate those who evaded the question. I miss him and Belva on KQED.
You must be a nut, because of Dr. Edell he saved my life, because of him I went to the dermatologist (otherwise I wouldn't) my skin cancer was diagnosed and cured, otherwise it would have spread and killed me, you are a pessimistic woke nut...
6:38, A medical doctor who had a regular segment on tv where he informed people about relevant health matters and answered viewer questions about their specific concerns. Yeah, how forgettable.
One of the earlier versions of the shady TV "medical doctors," and he looked the part with those beady eyes and that devious smirk.
I went into a pharmacy one day, and saw a large image of that snake's face. It was over a display of toy "reading" glasses. "Dr. Dean's Reading Glasses." And to think that there are suckers who have bought that crap, and who actually admire that quack.
It was a good day for television and radio, when Edell left those gigs and went back to being a hippie.
@ 4:00PM, @10:50 PM , @;17 PMHymmm, You must be a "jealous" quacks envious of Dr. Edell success as a real doctor and also a media celebrity, yes, there are those types who can't stand it as someone in the same profession whom excel in helping humanity in more ways than one....you all are pathetic.....
Great post, and an excellent way of capturing the many talented media folks that graced us day in and day out in years gone by. They were just dependably there, doing their thing and blending with the dynamic Bay Area before the big changes wrought by shock and awe economics and social media oddities. Hard not to be melancholy about such good professionals in days long gone...
Trenchant point from Anonymous at 1:10 pm about seeing a variety of faces on the news. Seeing folks like Dennis R., Barbara R., Rigo C., Wendy T., Llloyd L., Belva D., and Ben D. on TV all the time was the most natural thing in the world to me as a young white kid growing up on the Peninsula, and I didn't think anything of the healthy mix of looks that were there to tell me what was going on in a way that commanded respect and credulity. I know now that not everything was perfect for those noble newsers, but they and my quilt of elementary and middle school teachers at public schools were a comforting presence that most assuredly helped me form what I hope is a well-adjusted attitude towards all other people, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Thanks for keeping the memory of terrific days alive, Rich and other posters!
I wonder if they were hamstrung on what they could say or report on and parrot what was provided to them by one news source like today but we didn’t know because we didn’t have the world at our fingertips.
Doug and Maggie were excellent anchors before KNTV extended itself into the entire Bay Area. The San Jose News Channel! I would watch KNTV at 5:00 pm and then KPIX at 6:00 pm with Dave, Wendy, Joel and Wayne Walker.
I agree, mostly, and there were more, in those glory days when TV news had both dignity and money to spend. Of KTVU, I would add that besides the air talent and Zehnder, they had a very good desk. They also had about five extra hours in their working day. They went up at 10 while the other shops were cranking out at least two shows, at 5 and 6. That's five hours to keep reporting and shooting, write, edit, produce. It wasn't a fair fight.
Great post mr Lieberman. Can you imagine any of these giants of Bay Area news posting selfies and other useless minutiae on social media if it had been available? Can’t imagine Dennis Richmond posting his bare chest and massive biceps on instagram talking about: “LOOK AT DEEZ GUNS!”
Rich, I am old enough to not only agree with all of this but think on how things have changed and not necessarily always for the better. I remember when Dave McElhatton was about to debut on KPIX. Herb Caen wrote that a lot of radio personalities were interested in finding out how one of their own would fare on television, and if it worked, maybe they would follow. Dave was quickly a TV treasure -- he was one of a kind -- and radio-to-TV never became a trend.
I was doing wx, sports and other reporting when Dave arrived, replacing Stan Bohrman who actually had a studio fan to keep his sweat balls from showing on air. This was at Van Ness location. Dave didn't let any of the speculation about his appearance upset him. He just did a great job, being real.
And some others: Wayne Shannon (KRON, did great commentary pieces in the 1980s & 1990s), Bob MacKenzie (Segment 2, FYI he was also the TV critic for TV Guide!!!), Ed Arnow (1970s KPIX reporter, did great reporting during the Patty Hearst/SLA situation), Pat McCormick (KTVUs "jack of all trades", doing Charley & Humphrey, Dialing For Dollars, TV Poww!!, and the weather on the 10 O'Clock News), Wayne Walker (KPIX Sports), and Ray Jacobs (who did the editorials right after KTVU's 10 O'Clock News)
I met Leslie Griffith once at a dinner that she attended. She was very pleasant and at ease talking to me. She was absolutely gorgeous! My wife also commented to me afterwards that Leslie was beautiful.
Looks like the general consensus, is that we need to dial up Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to better times and stay there. We were better off in more ways than one could imagine.
Everyone loves to talk shit about ktvu. If you think you can do a better job than those you see on tv, then get a job there and show us all how it’s done. Until then, STFU and get off your couch once in a while.
IIt’s fun to look back on the glory days. But news was easy back then. There were fewer newscasts to fill, and with less competition for viewers attention the stations printed money, and could fund larger staffs to work on long term projects. The economics just aren’t there anymore. Broadcasting infrastructure is expensive and advertising dollars are split a million ways now, so tv and radio get a smaller piece of a shrinking pie. The model has to change. We rip on the “current state of media”… but if you really think about it, the journalists of today are doing a lot more with a lot less support. Individually, they may actually be more talented in many ways, than the journalists of yesterday.
Back before our modern day woke bullshit, back when the anchors and reporters we saw on tv got there based on their merits, not social media follower count, volume of selfies, shortness of skirts, or color of skin.
I had the great privilege of working at PIX during its heyday in the 80’s. Produced many newscasts that Mac and Wendy and Kate anchored. They honestly were the finest, easiest-to-work-with anchors I ever encountered in my 40-year career that spanned such markets as Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta and Phoenix. TV news in SF was the best it would ever be in the late-70’s and ‘80’s— giants at every station. True major-league newscasts. Not the case now, of course.
None of these News Idols would have never been on the air without.. The Teleprompter operators,Sound people,directors,editors, assignment editors producers,photographers, field producers, couriers, news secretary Assistant news directors cafateria food people.etc...
I guess you are saying you could do the same job as they did. You are right it takes a village, however the same can be said for actors, however without a certain presence, charisma (especially actors) and being able report the news without getting flustered, they would not have been as successful as they were. Do you really think people gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars if it is a job almost anyone can do?
Daily dose of ktvu patheticness: their website has a story about a DoorDash driver who stole someone’s Amazon package after dropping off their food. The article says the crime occurred at Arroyo Way and Lomitas Avenue. One problem, Lomitas Avenue doesn’t exist. There is a Lomita Avenue, which isn’t anywhere close to Arroyo Way. Have they never heard of Google Maps?
Worked with many of those fine people near the ends of their careers. Glad to have known them and to have the honor to work with hall of famers from the last era of Great Local News. Miss them all, especially those folks no longer with us.
Man...it's great to see Doug Moore and Maggi Scurra mentioned here. I worked for a bit at KNTV before "coming up north." KNTV back then was a bunch of hard-workin /overworked-and-grossly-underpaid "grunts"...led by Doug & Mag. It sounds really corny, but we all did look up to them--and they were both top-notch pros. Better yet, they were both genuinely nice people.
And who can ever forget Murph and Mac and their insipid commentary, their sucking up to Larry B, their “Bromances” with any decent “baller”. It was amazing how they turned a once decent station into a cat litter box - Pure Magic !! And then POOF they were gone. These were the Days of our Lives.
Cannot believe that Mac, Doug, Pete and Leslie are gone! Too soon. Murphys house fire is so odd!! Never know what you got until its gone except for the people who never knew how good it was!!
ReplyDeleteI have a tear.in my eye seeing what has become local news today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this mornings extraordinary article, yes, in those days you could tune in to every channel and enjoy classy, truthful and unbiased news reporting (also thanks to the behind the scenes people); you can also have your favorite anchors, reporters and! SPORTS anchors and reporters! Truly gone are these classy people that made you feel at home, thanks for the memories, Rich
ReplyDeleteDig up Bill Mandels columns in The Examiner from the 80s…
DeleteLots of criticism of our TV news greats being vapid, sensationalist, yadda yadda not just from him but readers too
I agree with you but the perception then wasn’t all that great
@ 6:10: Not knocking you but The Examiner used to be a great afternoon paper but has steadily declining since the 80's...hindsight is 20/20, no? Compare to what we have now makes the media back then All Cronkites...
DeleteGreat stroll down memory lane. For me Dave McEllhatton was one of the best if not the best anchors they Bay Area has ever seen. Just solid and likable behind the desk. He and Wendy Tokuda drove KPIX to some of its highest ratings ever at the time. And NightCast was a brand well marketed and worth watching at 11pm on CBS.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course who could forget one of the greatest reporters of that period, Mike Hegedus. He had a voice and a style reminiscent of radios longtime voice, Paul Harvey. Don't remember much about those days but always remembered how he stood out in the field of curious reporters back then.
Dennis Richmond was a solid, handsome, straight no chaser newsman. And someone who looked like us (black folk). People may poo-poo diversity all they want but that really does make a difference in how people are perceived from both sides. Nice to see we've made some strides as evidenced in some of the news anchors we have today. Hopefully the people behind the scenes calling the shots are reflective of the audiences they report on as well.
No, I'm not Black but I remember writing KTVU complimenting how Mr. Richmond and MS. Corral made me feel so right at home, Great pair!
DeleteMcElhatton was tremendous, but giving Wendy Tokuda a share of the credit for driving ratings up is a total joke. Tokuda was the weak link of that team and was carried by Dave. One of my professors in the SFSU Broadcasting Dept. had a field day with the numerous malaprops by Ms. Tokuda.
DeleteMs Belva still alive and hopefully well! Same with Mr.Lee. Class acts have to be looked up in dictionary since media honchos think class means cute! NOT!!!
ReplyDeleteI met Dave in person long ago when they were doing live remote broadcasts in the 90s for their news. A real gentleman.
ReplyDeleteI met Dave too. Very nice guy.
DeleteWe are moving forward, finding solutions, and building a better Bay Area.
ReplyDeleteThe Bay Area Cooperstown Collection. Don't even dare mention this Hall of Fame with the posers on air now in the same breath.
ReplyDeleteAnother entry, worthy of praise: Spencer Michaels. Smart, superb at asking the important questions, did not tolerate those who evaded the question. I miss him and Belva on KQED.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Rigo Chacon, Tony Russamano and Loyyd Laquesta who ruled the south bay. The crazy professor(Sonkin) was always a day behind.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Rita. No last name needed
ReplyDeleteTom Sinkovitz, Faith Fancher,
DeleteDoug Moore & Maggi Scura
Don’t forget about Dr. Dean Edell.
ReplyDeleteThat one is forgettable.
DeleteYou must be a nut, because of Dr. Edell he saved my life, because of him I went to the dermatologist (otherwise I wouldn't) my skin cancer was diagnosed and cured, otherwise it would have spread and killed me, you are a pessimistic woke nut...
Delete6:38, A medical doctor who had a regular segment on tv where he informed people about relevant health matters and answered viewer questions about their specific concerns. Yeah, how forgettable.
DeleteOne of the earlier versions of the shady TV "medical doctors," and he looked the part with those beady eyes and that devious smirk.
DeleteI went into a pharmacy one day, and saw a large image of that snake's face. It was over a display of toy "reading" glasses. "Dr. Dean's Reading Glasses." And to think that there are suckers who have bought that crap, and who actually admire that quack.
It was a good day for television and radio, when Edell left those gigs and went back to being a hippie.
@ 4:00PM, @10:50 PM , @;17 PMHymmm, You must be a "jealous" quacks envious of Dr. Edell success as a real doctor and also a media celebrity, yes, there are those types who can't stand it as someone in the same profession whom excel in helping humanity in more ways than one....you all are pathetic.....
Delete8:43,
DeleteYou may want to put on your Dr. Dean Reading Glasses BEFORE you proofread your posts.
Great post, and an excellent way of capturing the many talented media folks that graced us day in and day out in years gone by. They were just dependably there, doing their thing and blending with the dynamic Bay Area before the big changes wrought by shock and awe economics and social media oddities. Hard not to be melancholy about such good professionals in days long gone...
ReplyDeleteTrenchant point from Anonymous at 1:10 pm about seeing a variety of faces on the news. Seeing folks like Dennis R., Barbara R., Rigo C., Wendy T., Llloyd L., Belva D., and Ben D. on TV all the time was the most natural thing in the world to me as a young white kid growing up on the Peninsula, and I didn't think anything of the healthy mix of looks that were there to tell me what was going on in a way that commanded respect and credulity. I know now that not everything was perfect for those noble newsers, but they and my quilt of elementary and middle school teachers at public schools were a comforting presence that most assuredly helped me form what I hope is a well-adjusted attitude towards all other people, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Thanks for keeping the memory of terrific days alive, Rich and other posters!
I wonder if they were hamstrung on what they could say or report on and parrot what was provided to them by one news source like today but we didn’t know because we didn’t have the world at our fingertips.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Paymar, Abrams, Radnich and Thompson? They were my ichiban #1 group.
ReplyDeleteRadnich was on weekends then. Abrams at KRON for a hot minute like less than two years
DeleteLoved working with McElhatton. We were both pilots and would go flying together. Also great political reporter Hank Plante.
ReplyDeleteI know technically speaking that Doug Moore and Maggie Scura were in the San Jose media market, but they were an amazing anchor duo at KNTV 11.
ReplyDeleteDoug and Maggie were excellent anchors before KNTV extended itself into the entire Bay Area. The San Jose News Channel! I would watch KNTV at 5:00 pm and then KPIX at 6:00 pm with Dave, Wendy, Joel and Wayne Walker.
DeleteThen let's go all in and remember the KICU News at 10....or that KOFY Newscast from the late 80's early 1990's.
DeleteWho anchored those???
South Bay royalty on The San Jose NewsChannel
DeleteAh back in the days when none of those women used a razor where the young women of today overdo it. Fun times!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad a commenter mentioned Barbara Rodgers. I would watch her show on Sunday mornings.
ReplyDeleteI agree, mostly, and there were more, in those glory days when TV news had both dignity and money to spend. Of KTVU, I would add that besides the air talent and Zehnder, they had a very good desk. They also had about five extra hours in their working day. They went up at 10 while the other shops were cranking out at least two shows, at 5 and 6. That's five hours to keep reporting and shooting, write, edit, produce. It wasn't a fair fight.
ReplyDeleteAnd now they have non stop newscast where they play the same stories on repeat for 2-3 days straight.
DeleteGood point about the extra time although they probably had the leanest budget in those early Dennis / Elaine days
DeleteGreat post mr Lieberman. Can you imagine any of these giants of Bay Area news posting selfies and other useless minutiae on social media if it had been available? Can’t imagine Dennis Richmond posting his bare chest and massive biceps on instagram talking about: “LOOK AT DEEZ GUNS!”
ReplyDeleteRich, I am old enough to not only agree with all of this but think on how things have changed and not necessarily always for the better. I remember when Dave McElhatton was about to debut on KPIX. Herb Caen wrote that a lot of radio personalities were interested in finding out how one of their own would fare on television, and if it worked, maybe they would follow. Dave was quickly a TV treasure -- he was one of a kind -- and radio-to-TV never became a trend.
ReplyDeleteI was doing wx, sports and other reporting when Dave arrived, replacing Stan Bohrman who actually had a studio fan to keep his sweat balls from showing on air. This was at Van Ness location. Dave didn't let any of the speculation about his appearance upset him. He just did a great job, being real.
DeleteAnd some others: Wayne Shannon (KRON, did great commentary pieces in the 1980s & 1990s), Bob MacKenzie (Segment 2, FYI he was also the TV critic for TV Guide!!!), Ed Arnow (1970s KPIX reporter, did great reporting during the Patty Hearst/SLA situation), Pat McCormick (KTVUs "jack of all trades", doing Charley & Humphrey, Dialing For Dollars, TV Poww!!, and the weather on the 10 O'Clock News), Wayne Walker (KPIX Sports), and Ray Jacobs (who did the editorials right after KTVU's 10 O'Clock News)
ReplyDeleteI met Leslie Griffith once at a dinner that she attended. She was very pleasant and at ease talking to me. She was absolutely gorgeous! My wife also commented to me afterwards that Leslie was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteDennis Richmond would turn in his grave if he knew how far KTVU has fallen and how pathetic they’ve become.
ReplyDeleteHello....Mr. Richmond is very much alive at 79, wishing him many more years....
Delete12:45, somehow I thought he had passed but it’s good to know he’s still with us!
DeleteNot really he’s a baked potato. Just sits there and stares.
DeleteI met Barbara Rogers at the most recent election lunch at John's Grill. Very solid broadcaster but not a nice person
ReplyDeleteLooks like the general consensus, is that we need to dial up Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to better times and stay there. We were better off in more ways than one could imagine.
ReplyDeleteEveryone loves to talk shit about ktvu. If you think you can do a better job than those you see on tv, then get a job there and show us all how it’s done.
ReplyDeleteUntil then, STFU and get off your couch once in a while.
Okay, Leslie (or Julie, or one of you on-air clowns)
Delete9:22 LOL!!! You took the words right out of my mouth.
DeleteIIt’s fun to look back on the glory days. But news was easy back then. There were fewer newscasts to fill, and with less competition for viewers attention the stations printed money, and could fund larger staffs to work on long term projects. The economics just aren’t there anymore. Broadcasting infrastructure is expensive and advertising dollars are split a million ways now, so tv and radio get a smaller piece of a shrinking pie. The model has to change. We rip on the “current state of media”… but if you really think about it, the journalists of today are doing a lot more with a lot less support. Individually, they may actually be more talented in many ways, than the journalists of yesterday.
ReplyDeleteBack before our modern day woke bullshit, back when the anchors and reporters we saw on tv got there based on their merits, not social media follower count, volume of selfies, shortness of skirts, or color of skin.
ReplyDeleteI had the great privilege of working at PIX during its heyday in the 80’s. Produced many newscasts that Mac and Wendy and Kate anchored. They honestly were the finest, easiest-to-work-with anchors I ever encountered in my 40-year career that spanned such markets as Los Angeles, Detroit, Atlanta and Phoenix. TV news in SF was the best it would ever be in the late-70’s and ‘80’s— giants at every station. True major-league newscasts. Not the case now, of course.
ReplyDeleteNone of these News Idols would have never been on the air without.. The Teleprompter operators,Sound people,directors,editors, assignment editors producers,photographers, field producers, couriers, news secretary Assistant news directors cafateria food people.etc...
ReplyDeleteI guess you are saying you could do the same job as they did. You are right it takes a village, however the same can be said for actors, however without a certain presence, charisma (especially actors) and being able report the news without getting flustered, they would not have been as successful as they were. Do you really think people gets paid hundreds of thousands of dollars if it is a job almost anyone can do?
ReplyDeleteIt is sad that the good ones are gone. Watched a lot of local news during the 80s and 90s. Great people. Now I don't watch a lot.
ReplyDeleteWe forgot Joseph "JOE" Carcione "The Green Grocer".
ReplyDeleteOr “The Shadow” knows
DeleteDaily dose of ktvu patheticness: their website has a story about a DoorDash driver who stole someone’s Amazon package after dropping off their food.
ReplyDeleteThe article says the crime occurred at Arroyo Way and Lomitas Avenue. One problem, Lomitas Avenue doesn’t exist.
There is a Lomita Avenue, which isn’t anywhere close to Arroyo Way.
Have they never heard of Google Maps?
I’ve met Vic Lee, and he’s just like he comes across on TV — a warm, nice guy, like your grandpa or uncle might be.
ReplyDeleteGary Park, Barbara Simpson and George Watson. Goodnight. https://youtu.be/cJeN9vhz1Zw?t=326
ReplyDeleteWorked with many of those fine people near the ends of their careers. Glad to have known them and to have the honor to work with hall of famers from the last era of Great Local News. Miss them all, especially those folks no longer with us.
ReplyDeleteAn Anchorman I would tune in to watch was Bob Jimenez (KRON). Cool and trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteMan...it's great to see Doug Moore and Maggi Scurra mentioned here. I worked for a bit at KNTV before "coming up north." KNTV back then was a bunch of hard-workin /overworked-and-grossly-underpaid "grunts"...led by Doug & Mag. It sounds really corny, but we all did look up to them--and they were both top-notch pros. Better yet, they were both genuinely nice people.
ReplyDeleteAnd who can ever forget Murph and Mac and their insipid commentary, their sucking up to Larry B, their “Bromances” with any decent “baller”. It was amazing how they turned a once decent station into a cat litter box - Pure Magic !! And then POOF they were gone. These were the Days of our Lives.
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