An apt title for the typical TV newscast of the 1950s might have been: “Inaction News!” There simply wasn’t much of it on the tube back in those pre-Lindsay Lohan days. In Southern California, for ...

John Condon, staff announcer at KCBS-TV (KNXT) in Los Angeles from 1951 to 1988, on-camera announcer for Johnny Carson’s TV shows of 1953 (“Carson’s Cellar”) and 1955, and host of Arnold Shapiro’s ...

Bob Navarro, on the set of his public affairs interview show, "Bob Navarro's Journal." (Andy Scott/Los Angeles Times) At a time when few Latinos worked in broadcast news, Bob Navarro became a news ...