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KTVU, along with Cox-owned WKBD-TV in Detroit and KDNL-TV in St. Louis, agreed to become charter affiliates of Fox upon their October 9, 1986, launch. [15] KTVU was a rarity among the new network's affiliate base as it broadcast on VHF and had an established news department; general manager Kevin O'Brien saw Fox's backing with the 20th Century Fox studio as an advantage, providing the station ...
After forty years with KTVU—thirty-one as anchor—Richmond retired on May 26, 2008, his 65th birthday. [4] By the time of his retirement, Richmond had become the highly respected "dean" of Bay Area TV news anchors, the longest-serving anchor in the Bay Area's history.
Richmond sat behind the anchor's desk at KTVU − a local Fox station serving San Francisco and the surrounding cities − for over 30 years. First rising to the post in 1976 after being hired as ...
In 1986 she became a weekend reporter and anchor at KTVU in Oakland, California; in March 1996 she became co-anchor of the Ten O'Clock News with Dennis Richmond. [2] [3] For nine years she was sole anchor of the weekend news; on her 25th birthday, she was in Moscow reporting on the Cold War. She resigned from the station in 2006, after 22 years ...
He became co-anchor of KTVU's morning news program in 1992 and was the first anchor of the 5 p.m. newscast when it launched in 2005. In 2008, he was named co-anchor of the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, replacing 40-year veteran Dennis Richmond. [5]
Tuck returned to KFMB-TV in 1999 and resumed his position as anchor for News 8, which later became Local 8 News from 2001 to 2005. He departed KFMB-TV in late 2004 and in the following year, joined KUSI-TV as news anchor for their daily afternoon and evening newscasts alongside his KGTV colleague Kimberly Hunt. [6] Tuck departed KUSI-TV in 2007 ...
Pat McCormick (born c. 1933) [1] is a retired American local television personality and puppeteer who worked for San Francisco's KGO-TV, and Oakland's KTVU channel 2, where among many jobs he was the nightly news' weatherman, hosted the midday movie Dialing for Dollars program, and co-hosted the local edition of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.
After six years, KTVU responded to popular demand by adding a single-movie Friday night show at 11:30 p.m., debuting on February 4, 1977. The following week, the Saturday Double Feature returned to a single-movie format starting at 11:30 p.m., and continued in this two-night format through Bob's last Creature Features show on February 24, 1979.