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Michael Tuck (journalist)
John Michael Tuck (September 10, 1945 – August 17, 2022) was an American journalist. He was best known for his work on television in Southern California where he had anchored for television stations in San Diego and Los Angeles. Early career From 1967 to 1970, Tuck (during his studies at Trinity University) worked at San Antonio station KENS-TV. In 1970, he joined then-independent station KTVU in Oakland/San Francisco where he joined with Ron Fortner to form ''The Tuck-Fortner Report''. After their news program was cancelled in 1974, Tuck left KTVU and joined WCAU in Philadelphia to anchor their ''TV-10 News'' alongside Jack Jones. However, in 1976, both Tuck and Jones were replaced by Ralph Penza and Joan Dinerstein. Jones left WCAU for KYW-TV and Tuck continued with WCAU as a weekend anchor until 1978. Work in Southern California Early years in San Diego Tuck began his San Diego career in 1978 for CBS affiliate KFMB-TV. Under the direction of news director Jim H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silsbee, Texas
Silsbee is a town in Hardin County, Texas, United States. This city is 21 miles north of Beaumont. The population was 6,935 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area. Geography Silsbee is located in eastern Hardin County at (30.348095, –94.180220). U.S. Route 96, a four-lane bypass, forms the southeast border of the city; the highway leads northeast to Jasper and south to Beaumont. Houston is southwest of Silsbee via Beaumont. Texas State Highway 327 runs through downtown Silsbee south of the city center, leading east to US 96 and west to Kountze, the Hardin county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau, Silsbee has a total area of , of which , or 0.64%, are water. Historical development Silsbee was first referred to as "Mill Town" when the site was reached by the Gulf, Beaumont, and Kansas City Railway in 1894. The town was renamed in recognition of Nathaniel Devereux Silsbee, an investor (and grandson of Sen. Nathanie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Fortner
Ronnie Fortner (October 12, 1941 – February 7, 2003) was an American radio and television anchor. Early life Fortner was born in Poteau, Oklahoma. Career Fortner spent more than thirty years as a broadcaster, working alongside veteran California newscaster Michael Tuck both in San Diego and San Francisco. Immediately after Fortner's death from cancer, Tuck took it upon himself to help raise college and support funds for his son, 13-year-old Blaise Alejandro Fortner. According to Tuck, "Ron had hit on hard times over the past few years and I wanted to do something to help. He was a terrific guy, professionally and personally." Fortner's work in the San Diego TV market included stints at XETV-TV Channel 6 during that station's initial attempts at creating a news department. He later moved to KNSD-39 and had a talk radio show during that time at KSDO (AM). In the early 1970s he and Tuck anchored ''The Tuck and Fortner Report'' on San Francisco's KTVU-2. Upon his move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prizzi's Honor
''Prizzi's Honor'' is a 1985 American black comedy crime film directed by John Huston, starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner as two highly-skilled mob assassins who, after falling in love, are hired to kill each other. The screenplay co-written by Richard Condon is based on his 1982 novel of the same name. The film's supporting cast includes Anjelica Huston (the director's daughter and Nicholson's then-girlfriend), Robert Loggia, John Randolph, CCH Pounder, Lawrence Tierney, and William Hickey. Stanley Tucci appears in a minor role in his film debut. It was the last of John Huston's films to be released during his lifetime. ''Prizzi's Honor'' was theatrically released on June 14, 1985, by 20th Century Fox. It received critical acclaim, with praise for the performances of its cast (most notably Huston). It grossed $26 million against its $16 million budget. The film received eight nominations at the 58th Academy Awards (including for Best Picture, Best Director, Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Martin (journalist)
Ann Martin (born Martha Gebhardt) is a former journalist and a news anchor for the CBS owned-and-operated KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV television stations in Los Angeles, California. Martin was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Everett, Washington, where her father, Paul Marmont, worked at the former Everett Western Gear facility. She attended the nearby University of Washington, where she majored in communications and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Shortly after graduation, Martin began her broadcasting career at KIRO-TV as a weather-caster for the station's morning newscasts. She became the first woman in the Seattle market to solo anchor a newscast when she was promoted to weekend co-anchor. After reporting and anchoring for KIRO for several years, Martin moved to Los Angeles in April 1976 to work for KABC-TV as a reporter. She began co-anchoring the Saturday editions of '' Eyewitness News''. In the fall of 1980, KABC expanded its news to three hours on weeknights, and Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KABC-TV
KABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios in the Grand Central Business Centre of Glendale, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson. History Channel 7 first signed on the air under the call sign KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. It was the last television station licensed to Los Angeles operating on the VHF band to debut and the last of ABC's five original owned-and-operated stations to make its debut, after San Francisco's KGO-TV, which signed on four months earlier. It was also the last of the Los Angeles "classic seven" TV stations which were originally on the VHF dial, prior to the 2009 digital conversions. (No other stations debuted in Los Angeles until 1962, when the first two UHF Los Angeles stations launched (KIIX KWHY-TV.html"_;"title="ow_KWHY-TV">ow_KWHY-TVan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tritia Toyota
Tritia Toyota (born March 29, 1947) is a former Los Angeles television news anchor and a current adjunct assistant professor in anthropology, Asian American studies and the media at the University of California at Los Angeles. Early life and education Toyota was born in Portland, Oregon. She earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970, and later earned a PhD in anthropology. Career Toyota began her broadcast career in Los Angeles in 1970 as a radio reporter with KNX-AM. In January 1972 she was hired as a general assignment reporter at KNBC-TV; she became weekend anchor there in 1975, and was promoted to the 5 p.m. edition of ''NewsCenter 4'' in 1977 followed by the 11 p.m. newscast in 1978. Toyota quit KNBC (which became ''News 4 L.A.'' at the time of her resignation) in March 1985 and, after a standard three-month period between contracts, signed on as a news anchor for ''Channel 2 News'' at KCBS-TV, where she was reuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimberly Hunt
Kimberly Hunt, an Emmy Award winner, is a San Diego news reporter, chief anchor, and managing editor, for KGTV. During her career, Hunt has interviewed sitting Presidents, Oprah Winfrey, and other military, political and business leaders. She has reported live from the Academy Awards, Super Bowl games, political conventions, and other events. Early life and education Hunt was born in Ventura, California, and raised in Napa, California, Napa. She graduated from San Francisco State University. During college, she worked as a radio news reporter for KVON/KVYN Radio in Napa. Career After graduation, Hunt went to work for ABC Network News as a researcher for Peter Jennings during the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. At the close of the convention, she began working as an associate producer for ABC's ''Monday Night Football''. Hunt began her on-air television career at CBS affiliate KMST (now KION-TV) in Monterey, California, Monterey. She relocated to San Diego i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bree Walker
Bree Walker (born Patricia Lynn Nelson; February 26, 1953) is an American radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist. She gained fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly. Walker worked as a news anchor and reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles. Walker was born in Oakland, California and raised in Austin, Minnesota. She inherited ectrodactyly, a rare genetic condition which causes missing digits and syndactyly, which causes fused digits. TV and radio Established and well into her career at the ABC affiliate KGTV Channel 10 in San Diego, Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly after previously keeping her hands hidden inside a pair of glove-like prosthetic ones. With them now clearly visible, she continued her newscasting career at KGTV, then moving to the rock station KPRI FM. She started her television career in 1980 at KGTV as a consumer advocacy reporter. Acting Walker has also dabbled in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYW-TV
KYW-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate WPSG (channel 57). Both stations share studios on Hamilton Street north of Center City, Philadelphia, while KYW-TV's transmitter is located in the city's Roxborough section. KYW-TV, along with sister station KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, are the only CBS-affiliated stations east of the Mississippi River with "K" call signs. History As WPTZ (1932–1953) The channel 3 facility in Philadelphia is Pennsylvania's oldest television station. It began in 1932 as W3XE, an experimental station owned by Philadelphia's Philco Corporation, at the time and for some decades to come one of the world's largest manufacturers of radio and television sets. Philco engineers created much of the station's equipment, including cameras. When the station began operations as W3XE, it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Penza
Ralph Penza (November 22, 1932 – February 16, 2007) was a senior correspondent and substitute anchor for WNBC in New York City. He first joined WNBC in 1980, left the station in 1995 and rejoined it in October 1997. Among his many honors are six Emmy Awards and two New York Press Club ''Gold Typewriter'' awards. He is credited by peers within the journalism community with introducing the 'walking head shot' whereby the reporter literally walked the audience through the scene of the crime, event, etc. The technique has been widely emulated and is currently taught at Columbia University and NYU. Penza had done reporting in Coatesville, Pennsylvania and Waterloo, Iowa. Prior to joining WNBC, Penza worked as news director at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia, anchor and reporter at WDVM in Washington, D.C., an anchor at WCAU in Philadelphia, a producer, reporter and anchor at WCBS, and a producer at WABC. While in high school Penza served as a copy boy for Walter Winchell. Penza gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
