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

Here in Minneapolis Randy Shaver just celebrated 35 years with KARE 11 (NBC). Heh he was there when it was WUSA (Before Gannett bought what is now WUSA and moved the callsign)
 
RadioPatrol said:
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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUEiIPKBNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVf7bOEuYE

I never knew that Martin Wyatt did the sports segments on WRC-TV in Washington D.C. before he moved to KGO-TV to do sports segments in San Francisco for 27 years until he retired back in 2007.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgFqV9_0ms
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUEiIPKBNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVf7bOEuYE

I never knew that Martin Wyatt did the sports segments on WRC-TV in Washington D.C. before he moved to KGO-TV to do sports segments in San Francisco for 27 years until he retired back in 2007.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgFqV9_0ms
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I'll bet David Louie has been with KGO-TV for more than 40 years. I believe he started in the Van Amburg/Jerry Jensen "Newscene" years when Channel 7 dominated the news ratings. Amburg's prime-time teasers were infamous. The most famous one may be apocryphal - "Severed penis found on railroad tracks. Details at 11:00."

Another who hailed from that era was Don Sanchez, who retired 3 or 4 year ago.

This clip is from only 32 years ago - 1986 - after KGO-TV's news had calmed down a bit , and right before the new penny-pinching owner of ABC - Capital Cities - jettisoned Amburg because his salary was too high. Don Sanchez does sports. A young Cheryl Jennings can be seen at 22:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7qxTjpoEk
 
Carole Mikita has been at KSL in Salt Lake City since 1979.
I remember her at WTOV in Steubenville, Ohio prior to that.
She was a real looker.
 
https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/tv/article222574250.html

Clarice Tinsley a Dallas TV talent has spent 40 years at KDFW

For the past couple of weeks, KDFW/Channel 4 has had a series of digital billboards around DFW, honoring veteran anchor Clarice Tinsley on her 40th anniversary with the station. The billboards change daily, each one showing a different phase of Tinsley’s career.

On her Twitter feed, colleagues, competitors and viewers have been congratulating Tinsley, who will also be honored with a half-hour special, “CT 40: A Broadcast Life,” airing at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (Dec. 4) on Fox 4. All the attention is sort of a flip for Tinsley, who says that one of the reasons she’s in the business is to tell other people’s stories.

“I’m very grateful,” says Tinsley, who currently co-anchors the 5:30 and 10 p.m. newscasts on Fox 4. “It makes me happy. It’s very humbling. And it’s a time of reflection, because it’s about the work. It’s doing the work every day, every newscast, every story, and there really isn’t an opportunity to sit back and take a breath and look at what happened in the past.”

In the late ‘70s, Tinsley was working for a Milwaukee TV station when she was contacted by Allen Levy, then the producer of the 6 p.m. mews at KDFW, who was calling friends around the country looking for a reporter good enough to fill an opening at a station in the No. 10 (now No. 5) market in the country. A Milwaukee friend suggested Tinsley.

Her demo tape included some anchoring footage along with field reporting. Levy liked the anchor footage, and suggested to KDFW’s then-news director that he consider Tinsley if they had an anchor opening. It turned out to be a timely suggestion, and Tinsley was brought in. She liked the hospitality of DFW and the opportunities she got at the station, and it didn’t take long before she decided that it would be a good place to set down roots.

She didn’t immediately think a long career in DFW was a lock, because there were factors she couldn’t control. Now she often runs into people who say that they’ve been watching her since they were children, or that they’ve watched her for more than 30 years.

“I think maybe sometimes some people think, ‘Oh, those are too many years to talk about’,” she says. “ I’m like, ‘No, no, no — I love hearing that.’ First of all, thank you for watching for all these years, but that’s part of what you want to hear that you’ve been part of someone’s life for years or decades. “

Tinsley was at the station less than 10 years when she won a George Foster Peabody Award for “A Call for Help,” a 1984 report on response flaws in Dallas’ 911 system. In 1995, she launched the “Hometown Heroes” series, a series of reports on volunteers and people who give of themselves; it continues to air during the Monday newscasts.
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unclehonkey said:
a week or so ago at WCCO (Minneapolis O&O) Mark Rosen is retiring after 50 years at WCCO. He started in High School. Has been the sports guy forever. He's retiring in April after the Final 4 (which is held in Minneapolis this year)
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/10/01/mark-rosen-to-retire-from-wcco-tv/
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Moving up his retirement date to January.
https://www.twincities.com/2018/12/04/wccos-mark-rosen-will-move-up-retirement-date/ https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018...MhbvB7HYKBZldJlSURBTdSxo1_ZVXBNEUCLm3zb3ILSKo
 
LKellerIII said:
I'll bet David Louie has been with KGO-TV for more than 40 years. I believe he started in the Van Amburg/Jerry Jensen "Newscene" years when Channel 7 dominated the news ratings. Amburg's prime-time teasers were infamous. The most famous one may be apocryphal - "Severed penis found on railroad tracks. Details at 11:00."

Another who hailed from that era was Don Sanchez, who retired 3 or 4 year ago.

This clip is from only 32 years ago - 1986 - after KGO-TV's news had calmed down a bit , and right before the new penny-pinching owner of ABC - Capital Cities - jettisoned Amburg because his salary was too high. Don Sanchez does sports. A young Cheryl Jennings can be seen at 22:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx7qxTjpoEk
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David Louie started at KGO around 1972, moved upstairs to become G.M. at WXYZ-TV in Detroit in '77, decided he missed his old job, and returned to KGO in '79.
 
Obligatory refresher: Don Alhart started at WOKR in Rochester NY June 6, 1966, 53 years ago this week.

He is still at the station (now WHAM-TV) as its weekday 6 and 11 PM anchor, and has been recognized by the Guinness Book as the longest-running anchor in the country.

He has no plans that I know of to retire.
 
in New York, there's Chuck Scarborough, who is STILL with WNBC 4 after 45 years (and yet, they pushed his LEGENDARY co-anchor, Sue Simmons, out after 32 years - a few years back).... #ChuckandSueForever
 
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