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Which TV News Anchor Has Been With The Same Station The Longest?

seatownmedia said:
Not sure if the "Eyewitness News" name is copyrighted. Seattle's KIRO-TV (CBS) used the term from the late 60's to about 2015. Suddenly dropped it for whatever reason. I still think it is a powerful brand name, but perhaps live internet streams have deemed it unimportant. Not sure.
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I doubt Eyewitness News is copyrighted. It was used by both ABC O&Os, and Westinghouse owned stations. As I noted earlier, it was used for at least 44 years by KPIX 5 San Francisco, a CBS affiliate owned by Westinghouse - now a CBS O&O. When I first moved to the Bay Area 44 years ago, it seemed odd that it was attached to a CBS affiliate, because I was used to it from KABC-TV in LA. The ABC O&O here (KGO-TV) was News Scene back in the 70s, so I assume KPIX beat them to the Eyewitness branding. Otherwise, KGO-TV's news was very similar to KABC-TV, including that Cool Hand Luke intro theme music.
 
onairb2014 said:
George Warren, seen in that clip, is still with KXTV, as a field reporter; some of his stories on winter-storm cleanup in the Sierra have been picked up by KGO (since KXTV has been a Sister station'/ABC O & O for about 20 years).
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Well George Warren has been at KXTV for 30+ years. He has to be one of a few Sacramento area talent that managed to stay in 1 DMA for Decades along with Tom Duhain at KCRA3 and Dick Cable another KXTV person who had 3 decades at one station.
 
In the Cedar Rapids/Waterloo IA market, Ron Steele has been at KWWL (NBC) since 1974. The first five years as sports director. He then became a news anchor in 1979 and has been there ever since. Bruce Aune has been anchor at KCRG (ABC) since 1986.
 
Kristen Sze of KGO-TV ABC7 San Francisco she's another person who is approaching the 20 year mark at the Disney O&O in San Francisco.
Dang I'm amazed that she's also another member of the ABC7 crew who managed to have longer stints at the station than even VanAmburg, Jerry Jensen, Roger Grimsby and Pete Wilson.

KGO-TV has managed to have multiple people who worked at the station at least 20 years or more

Kristen Sze
Spencer Christian
Dan Ashley
Cheryl Jennings
Dan Noyes
David Louie
Don Sanchez
Eric Thomas
Carolyn Tyler
Wayne Freedman
Pete Giddings
 
I'm not sure if the late Russ Coughlan also belongs in that '20 year club' for on-camera work, but he worked for KGO almost from day one in 1949, until his death on New Year's Eve 1990, in a variety of roles, from salesman to VP/general manager to early-morning news anchor.
David Louie has the longest tenure at the station among current staff, having gone to work there in 1972, and returned in 1979, after a two-year 'exodus' to WXYZ in Detroit, as general manager.
 
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onairb2014 said:
I'm not sure if the late Russ Coughlan also belongs in that '20 year club' for on-camera work, but he worked for KGO almost from day one in 1949, until his death on New Year's Eve 1990, in a variety of roles, from salesman to VP/general manager to early-morning news anchor.
David Louie has the longest tenure at the station among current staff, having gone to work there in 1972, and returned in 1979, after a two-year 'exodus' to WXYZ in Detroit, as general manager.
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I had a roommate in 1973 who said he grew up in Buffalo NY with David Louie, and that was 1973 - so yeah, long time. Don Sanchez, sports anchor, weekend and fill-in regular anchor, and reporter - had been with the station over 40 years when he retired a couple of years ago. So these guys were there in the "when it bleeds it leads" News Scene era working with anchor Van Amburg (recently passed away) - when no other station could touch KGO-TV's ratings.

Here's Cheryl in '87 anchoring Channel 7 News Tonight on the Golden Gate Bridge's 50th anniversary. Met her once - very nice person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSJKqCwoodQ
 
LKellerIII said:
That's devotion. In that tiny market, he couldn't have been making more money than the local plumbers. I remember reading that when anchor Dina Ruiz married Clint Eastwood maybe 12 years ago, she was making something like $15 per hour in the Monterey/Salinas/Carmel market, which I believe is bigger than Redding.
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That reminds me of J.J. Davis !!

For years he was on WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA. Then he moved up to Omaha, Indianapolis and I believe Kansas City but he went back to WHSV. He must like that town !!!
 
hamster said:
That reminds me of J.J. Davis !!

For years he was on WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA. Then he moved up to Omaha, Indianapolis and I believe Kansas City but he went back to WHSV. He must like that town !!!
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I decided to take a few minutes and look up the various market rankings. Redding CA includes Chico, which is at least an hour away from Redding by car, but I guess those markets are geographically larger when the population is more rural. Makes sense. In any case, Redding/Chico is ranked #132 in the USA. Monterey/Salinas/Carmel is geographically smaller, and a bit up the ladder, but not much - #125. For comparison purposes, your JJ Davis in Harrisonburg was in market #177. Omaha is a big #74, and Indianapolis #27.
 
How Much Or How Little Things Have Changed......

wbhist said:
In New York City, among English-speaking stations, hands-down Chuck Scarborough who's been with WNBC Channel 4 constantly since 1974. I say "among English-speaking stations" because at Spanish-language WXTV Channel 41, Rafael Pineda has toiled at the anchor desk since 1972..
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Pineda stayed on for a few more years at WXTV (I recall his retirement was somewhat even covered by the English-speaking stations) - and happily, Chuck Scarborough is STILL at WNBC Channel 4 (though he's only doing the 6PM news now).
 
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