KPIX TV 5 is a TV station in San Francisco, California, USA covering CBS network programs, local news and weather. KPIX TV 5 is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network. KPIX TV 5 was the first TV station to go on the air in Northern California in December 1948. This TV station is owned by CBS Corporation. The web site is presented in the English language.
| KPIX TV 5 Ratings | Content:
Very Good (2 votes)
Political Bias: Leans Left (2 votes)
Credibility: Moderate (2 votes)
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:53pm on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 | Wanda Ramey, a pioneering TV news reporter for KPIX TV, has died. Stephen Miller of The Wall Street Journal wrote an obituary on August 26, 2009:
"She was an experienced broadcaster when she took a job as one of the nation's first female local news anchors in 1959, yet Wanda Ramey was billed as KPIX-TV in San Francisco's "Girl on the Beat."
Ms. Ramey, who died Aug. 15 at the age of 85, had been on the air for more than a decade by the time "Noon News" had its debut. She specialized in reporting from the scene at a time when newscasts were conducted mostly from the studio. She rode along on a night police patrol in a high-crime zone, peered into the exotic haunts of a Beatnik from Greenwich Village, and reported on the construction of San Francisco's latest high-rise from inside the emerging building's skeleton.
Within a year Ms. Ramey's hard-news leanings led to a different slogan: "The Woman on the Beat."
"People sometimes mistook her soft manner and didn't notice that she had a steel back," says Belva Davis, a veteran Bay Area broadcaster who counts Ms. Ramey as a mentor."
The full story:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125123739250558343.html
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