Obit: Sam Chu Lin @ 67...Worked for KTTV

[ThatManDan]

(From the "L.A.Times" )

Sam Chu Lin, who became one of the first Asian American newsmen to go to work for a major network when he joined CBS in the 1970s, has died. He was 67.

Chu Lin spent the last decade as a reporter for KTTV-TV Channel 11. He became ill Sunday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank after flying in from Phoenix and was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, said his son, Mark Chu Lin. The cause of death was still unknown.

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[LKellerIII]

> Sam also worked for KFWB radio in LA in the late 60s or early 70s, and at KPIX (CBS 5) in the Bay Area. He may also have worked at KRON-4 (then NBC). KPIX did a short piece on his death on the 11:00 news the other night. It was obvious that they were fond of him. He kept his residence in Sunnyvale (near San Jose) and commuted to Los Angeles. He was considered a mentor for a number of young Asian American news people in the Bay Area, whether or not he worked with him, or at another station.

(From the "L.A.Times" )
>
> Sam Chu Lin, who became one of the first Asian American
> newsmen to go to work for a major network when he joined CBS
> in the 1970s, has died. He was 67.
>
> Chu Lin spent the last decade as a reporter for KTTV-TV
> Channel 11. He became ill Sunday at Bob Hope Airport in
> Burbank after flying in from Phoenix and was taken to a
> local hospital where he was pronounced dead, said his son,
> Mark Chu Lin. The cause of death was still unknown.
>
> (Read more at
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-m> e-chulin9mar09,1,2094122,print.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
>
>
> (Free registration may be required to access the above
> article.)
>

 

[Joey1986]

> (From the "L.A.Times" )
>
> Sam Chu Lin, who became one of the first Asian American
> newsmen to go to work for a major network when he joined CBS
> in the 1970s, has died. He was 67.
>
> Chu Lin spent the last decade as a reporter for KTTV-TV
> Channel 11. He became ill Sunday at Bob Hope Airport in
> Burbank after flying in from Phoenix and was taken to a
> local hospital where he was pronounced dead, said his son,
> Mark Chu Lin. The cause of death was still unknown.
>
> (Read more at
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-m> e-chulin9mar09,1,2094122,print.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
>
>
> (Free registration may be required to access the above
> article.)
>
May he rest in peace.