bogusabc7breakingnews 60 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Legendary Television Broadcaster Fritz Coleman Retiring From NBC4 After Nearly Forty Years https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/legendary-television-broadcaster-fritz-coleman-retiring-from-nbc4-after-nearly-forty-years/2381619/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5568 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Is he "out" or retiring, because the former makes it sound like he was fired. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiveNews 372 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Retiring. Don't think the station would put together a 4min video of his career (in the original link) if there were nefarious circumstances. I figured retirement was on the horizon when he reduced his schedule to just the 5pm/11pm maybe 1.5-2yrs ago when Anthony Yanez arrived from Houston. He was doing 5p, 6p and 11pm previously. If you go way back in the day, he was doing 4p, 5p, 6p and 11p when the station originally launched the 4pm news back in the 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmQdcG4BuUM An old 1980s Channel 4 News promo with Fritz for good measure as well. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseRM303 171 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Anthony Yáñez takes over for Fritz on the 5 & 11 pm shows beginning June 29th. He will continue to forecast the weather for the 6 pm show as well. No word yet on who replaces Yáñez at 4 pm. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
qunewsguy 377 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 I just watched the retrospective video. Why wouldn't they have one of his longtime co-workers track the piece? Having the voiceover guy do it just sounds so impersonal. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickp 337 Posted June 17, 2020 Share Posted June 17, 2020 Remember when Fritz Coleman used to do stand up spots on Carson? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metrodonmartin 42 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 5 hours ago, qunewsguy said: I just watched the retrospective video. Why wouldn't they have one of his longtime co-workers track the piece? Having the voiceover guy do it just sounds so impersonal. He doesn’t leave until the 26th. I’m sure they’ll have many colleagues talking with and about him that evening and the next week. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnya2k6 171 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Metrodonmartin said: He doesn’t leave until the 26th. I’m sure they’ll have many colleagues talking with and about him that evening and the next week. Especially Fritz’s predecessor Pat Sajak (who left KNBC to do some show called Wheel Of Fortune across the lot)! Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbc9houston 22 Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 20 hours ago, johnnya2k6 said: Especially Fritz’s predecessor Pat Sajak (who left KNBC to do some show called Wheel Of Fortune across the lot)! Coleman did not replace Sajak. Kevin O'Connell was KNBC's weatherman from 1982 (Sajak's departure) to 1985 (when O'Connell went to KCBS). Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246667 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogusabc7breakingnews 60 Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 On 6/17/2020 at 9:53 PM, johnnya2k6 said: Especially Fritz’s predecessor Pat Sajak (who left KNBC to do some show called Wheel Of Fortune across the lot)! WOF used to tape in Burbank? Thought they were always in Culver City with Jeopardy Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnya2k6 171 Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 10 hours ago, nbc9houston said: Coleman did not replace Sajak. Kevin O'Connell was KNBC's weatherman from 1982 (Sajak's departure) to 1985 (when O'Connell went to KCBS). Right; Fritz joined as weekend weatherman before moving to weeknights (when News 4 LA became Channel 4 News). And oh yeah...O’Connell did that short-lived game show GO just a few stages down. 4 minutes ago, bogusabc7breakingnews said: WOF used to tape in Burbank? Thought they were always in Culver City with Jeopardy Since 1995, yes (Wheel first taped at NBC in Burbank and later (CBS) Television City). Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfomspphl 490 Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 On 6/17/2020 at 1:25 PM, bogusabc7breakingnews said: Legendary Television Broadcaster Fritz Coleman Retiring From NBC4 After Nearly Forty Years https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/legendary-television-broadcaster-fritz-coleman-retiring-from-nbc4-after-nearly-forty-years/2381619/ those are some crystal clear archive clips - good to see KNBC preserved so much - but odd to have the announcer voicing the story instead of chuck, colleen, or fred Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-246712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner 216 Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Fritz's next venture is a podcast, available here: https://www.mediapathpodcast.com/ [Post briefly discussing the project] Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/17815-knbc%E2%80%99s-fritz-coleman-is-retiring/#findComment-248008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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