KCAL Prime 9 News really set the bar for all local news to follow. The prime time news experiment really worked out and in a big way. Disney really put together a great group of local and "outside of the market anchors" who knew their stuff along with a fantastic set of reporters. The ONLY reporter that I know that is left from that time is David Goldstein who is doing some great work in the investigative unit. I do have to say that KCAL News now is WAY past its prime!
Wow!! This was a while after Disney purchased KHJ-TV 9 and renamed it KCAL-TV 9. The Dead of TV Newsmen, the late, great, incomparable Jerry Dunphy was paired with a very young-looking Jane Velez-Mitchell at 8, Pat Harvey and David Jackson did the 9 and JD came back with Tawny Little for 10. They should bring the music back! PRIME 9 NEWS was THE place for local news!
Holy Crap when Jane Velez-Mitchell was on KCAL 9 she tried to make the news less tabloidal as possible but once she got to HLN she only did tabloid stories.
Pat Harvey is the oldest member of KCAL 9
dinfg6 7 months ago
So the Joe Fowler in this open is the same Joe Fowler that's based in Colorado doing infomercials today?
char615 1 year ago
@char615 yep - same joe fowler
ateball1 1 year ago
KCAL Prime 9 News really set the bar for all local news to follow. The prime time news experiment really worked out and in a big way. Disney really put together a great group of local and "outside of the market anchors" who knew their stuff along with a fantastic set of reporters. The ONLY reporter that I know that is left from that time is David Goldstein who is doing some great work in the investigative unit. I do have to say that KCAL News now is WAY past its prime!
WestlakeSig 1 year ago
just like i remembered it when i lived in LA in 1994
siffil8 2 years ago
Wow!! This was a while after Disney purchased KHJ-TV 9 and renamed it KCAL-TV 9. The Dead of TV Newsmen, the late, great, incomparable Jerry Dunphy was paired with a very young-looking Jane Velez-Mitchell at 8, Pat Harvey and David Jackson did the 9 and JD came back with Tawny Little for 10. They should bring the music back! PRIME 9 NEWS was THE place for local news!
MRSTARWAVEZ 2 years ago 5
David Jackson was the only KHJ-9 anchor to stay for the KCAL 9 era
Dook6 2 years ago
Holy Crap when Jane Velez-Mitchell was on KCAL 9 she tried to make the news less tabloidal as possible but once she got to HLN she only did tabloid stories.
recto89 2 years ago 2
@recto89 She worked at KCAL?
jhshifris1 3 months ago
@jhshifris1 she did in the 1990's
recto89 3 months ago
Wayne Shattuck is now at WFTS in tampa
eastest566 2 years ago
Oh jeez, don't tell me Joe Fowler from those cruddy TurboCooker informercials...
hkfreak 2 years ago
Actually, it is the NuWave Oven infomercials. Fowler did informercials for other products.
newscaster13 2 years ago
best music/open they've ever used
newscenter5 2 years ago 25
Decade 90 is the best
dinfg6 2 years ago 23
One of the most dignified news themes ever!!!
newscaster13 2 years ago 15
This really has to be from 1990.
bhayes06 2 years ago