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KTLA’s News At 10:
Sixty Years with Stan Chambers
by Stan Chambers, with Lynn Price

In 1947 Stan caught a wave just as KTLA Channel 5, Los Angeles, was becoming the first commercial television station this side of the Mississippi. This wave has taken Stan on an unimaginable journey covering TV news that has been going strong for sixty years. He shares his life with an engaging style that merges storyline with a broad spectrum of television history and events that includes:

* Technical achievements in television, (e.g., KTLA engineered the first ever news Telecopter)
* The Bobby Kennedy Assassination (1968)
* Breaking of the Rodney King Beating story
* The Baldwin Hills Dam Disaster
* The Watts Riots (1965) and the Los Angeles Riots (1992)
* The Kathy Fiscus Story (the “little girl” who fell into the well in 1947)
* Live coverage of the A-Bomb test in the Nevada prove-up grounds (1951)
* Southern California earthquakes, Malibu fires, and everything in between.

Stan is also involved with the Stan Chambers Journalism Awards, an annual essay competition that awards senior high school students interested in journalism careers with cash awards.

Other honors include several Emmy and Golden Mike awards, the Sigma Delta Chi Broadcaster of the Year award, the Governor’s Award from the Television Academy, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an L.A. Press Club Award, L.A. City and County proclamations, and from his alma mater, the USC Alumni Association Award. The Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California-Nevada also annually presents the Stan Chambers Lifetime Achievement Award.

He’s still out there, over 22,000 stories later, with mic in hand. As Chambers puts it, “When you report news in Los Angeles, you are broadcasting to the biggest hometown in America.” Click here to view a video. In addition, this link provides reviews and accolades..

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