I've always thought that Kimberly King was kind of a female version of Rod Luck...she always came off on the air as an incoherent unfocused surfer chick that was either high on "mari-jew-ahna" or drunk on alcohol.
How she ever got in to NBC 7/39 I'll never know. Her biography on the KNSD website seems to insinuate that she directly went to NBC 7/39 directly after she got her degree at San Diego State. And how she ended up with her own 1/2 show indicates to me that she got in there because she knew somewhere there.