bogusabc7breakingnews 63 Posted June 17, 2020 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/
24994J 5664 Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 Is he "out" or retiring, because the former makes it sound like he was fired.
FiveNews 385 Posted June 17, 2020 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.
JoseRM303 171 Posted June 17, 2020 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.
qunewsguy 378 Posted June 17, 2020 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.
nickp 344 Posted June 17, 2020 Posted June 17, 2020 Remember when Fritz Coleman used to do stand up spots on Carson?
Metrodonmartin 42 Posted June 18, 2020 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.
johnnya2k6 171 Posted June 18, 2020 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)!
nbc9houston 22 Posted June 18, 2020 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).
bogusabc7breakingnews 63 Posted June 19, 2020 Author 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
johnnya2k6 171 Posted June 19, 2020 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).
sfomspphl 513 Posted June 20, 2020 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
Roadrunner 217 Posted July 22, 2020 Posted July 22, 2020 Fritz's next venture is a podcast, available here: https://www.mediapathpodcast.com/ [Post briefly discussing the project]
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