Actually Jerry quit on his own terms...he was fed up with KABC and the management, mainly because of CapCities and the increased focus on less news-worthy stories and more fluff, something that still goes on at most ABC Stations. Though KGO now has done a rather great job shying away from that.
Not quite. KABC had been a glitzy-anchor station known for plenty of softer stories and sex-related features for much of Jerry's run there. Don't get me wrong, they also did plenty of hard news, but Jerry didn't walk because of news quality. Disney offered serious coin.
Wow Now When I see some of the stories that Air on WABC and KABC today via web video they seem to almost tilt on the tabloidal side while KGO is more known to lean on the Hard News like Budget Cuts and Bay and investigative stores like the I team on the 6pm-9pm newscasts. Morning news focuses on techonlogical innovation.
Not so much fired... just not renewed under penny-pinching CapCities when his contract came up in 1986. They also let the late Jerry Dunphy split KABC three years later.
van amburg or van halen - - which do you prefer?
wallofvideo 9 months ago
Does anybody have a teaser where KGO's Van Amburg, Jerry Jensen, Marcia Brandwynne says "Severed Penis found in the Penninsula. Film at 11"
dinfg6 1 year ago
Is Patty Hearst still alive as of 2008?
dinfg6 3 years ago
Yes - she is a wife and mother.
VideoRewind 3 years ago
Was Patty Hearst seen as a Paris Hilton like person before she was known for her involment of being or forced in the SLA?
dinfg6 3 years ago
No, Patty was a fairly quiet college student with an intellectual boyfriend.
VideoRewind 3 years ago
Patty Hearst appeared in the John Waters movie,"Pecker" of all things.
dj99surf 3 years ago
clip circa 1975
frankd1965 2 years ago
I.I.N.M., he passed away a few years ago.
wmbrown6 4 years ago
Jerry Dunphy passed away a few years ago. AFAIK, Van Amburg is still alive.
manhizzy 4 years ago
I noticed that some places mixed up Van Amburg's biographical data with another person of the same name.
wmbrown6 3 years ago
Actually Jerry quit on his own terms...he was fed up with KABC and the management, mainly because of CapCities and the increased focus on less news-worthy stories and more fluff, something that still goes on at most ABC Stations. Though KGO now has done a rather great job shying away from that.
mbhfromla 4 years ago
Not quite. KABC had been a glitzy-anchor station known for plenty of softer stories and sex-related features for much of Jerry's run there. Don't get me wrong, they also did plenty of hard news, but Jerry didn't walk because of news quality. Disney offered serious coin.
NewsOnDemand 4 years ago
Wow Now When I see some of the stories that Air on WABC and KABC today via web video they seem to almost tilt on the tabloidal side while KGO is more known to lean on the Hard News like Budget Cuts and Bay and investigative stores like the I team on the 6pm-9pm newscasts. Morning news focuses on techonlogical innovation.
dinfg6 2 years ago
Not so much fired... just not renewed under penny-pinching CapCities when his contract came up in 1986. They also let the late Jerry Dunphy split KABC three years later.
NewsOnDemand 4 years ago
He was fired in the 1980's.
mbhfromla 4 years ago