Bruce King dead at 83

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http://komonews.com/news/local/former-longtime-komo-tv-sportscaster-bruce-king-dies

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/bruce-king-longtime-komo-tv-sports-anchor-dies-at-age-83/

Bruce King best known for anchoring sports at KOMO-TV Seattle

Note article mentions that king had stints at other stations around the country,

King began his television career in 1960 at KEZI-TV in Eugene, Ore.

After a five-year stay at KEZI and brief stint at KNTV in San Jose, he then became a producer/reporter for KABC in Los Angeles in 1966. He covered the first Super Bowl, played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for KABC.

He became KOMO's sports director in 1968 and stayed until 1980, when he was hired to fill the same role at New York's WABC. The next year he was back at KOMO-TV.

Johnson joined the station in 1993 and found King to be "lovely, graceful and decent."

King, he said, "was from that era where they had stylistic flourishes on the set."

He remembered how he could dramatically introduce the play of the night.

Longtime KOMO reporter Connie Thompson said King was "a fun-loving ray of sunshine, always."

"He was about doing what he loved and about doing it well," she said. "But he was also about loving life and joy."

King won two local Emmy Awards during his career and was named state sportscaster of the year four times.

 

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Bruce King WAS Seattle sports from '68 to the 90's. A true pro, and one of the best ever in the Seattle market. Will be missed.