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Paramount Global’s CBS News and Stations has made changes to the morning lineups of its two Los Angeles TV stations. The independent KCAL-TV is going 0 to 7 — having been the only news station in the LA market not doing morning news, it today is launching KCAL News Mornings, a seven-hour weekday morning…

Michael Tuck, whose commanding on-air presence led to long news anchorman stints in San Diego and Los Angeles, died Aug. 17 at 76 after a long battle with post-stroke complications, according to reports. Tuck worked at KGTV in San Diego before moving to KCBS in Los Angeles from 1990-2000. He then returned to San…

CBS named veteran local media exec Joel Vilmenay president and general manager of CBS News and Stations' businesses in Los Angeles several months after an internal investigation into racism and misogyny at the stations led to high-profile ousters in LA and Chicago. Vilmenay's portfolio includes KCBS-TV (CBS 2)…

Michele Gillen, an investigative reporter whose broadcast career took her from Maine to Miami to Los Angeles, has died from natural causes. She was 66 and her longtime friend and producer Marcia Izaguirre confirmed the death in a Facebook post Friday. “For all those who knew her, she was a relentless warrior who…

Pete Noyes, a Peabody-winning Los Angeles TV news legend who worked in every L.A. network affiliate’s newsroom during a six-decade career and was the inspiration for the classic TV character Lou Grant, died Monday of natural causes at him home in Westlake Village, CA. He was 90. His son, longtime KNBC-TV assignment…

David Sheehan, who was one of the first television entertainment reporters in Los Angeles broadcast coverage, died earlier this week at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. He was 82 and passed from complications of a stroke. Sheehan joined KNXT-TV — now KCBS — in 1979, becoming the first entertainment interviewer…

Veteran Los Angeles news anchor Jeff Michael sued KCBS-TV on Friday, alleging the station breached his contract and discriminated against him based on health issues. Michael was co-anchor of KCBS-TV Channel 2's newscasts at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. for more than three years. The Emmy Award-winning anchor joined KCBS in early…

Veteran TV stations executive Jay Howell has been named president and General Manager of the CBS Television Stations' Los Angeles properties, KCBS-TV, KCAL-TV, CBSLA.com and the newly launched streaming service CBSN Los Angeles. Peter Dunn, President, CBS Television Stations, said Howell is succeeding Steve Mauldin…

Continuing its rollout of local direct-to-consumer streaming services, CBS has launched CBSN Los Angeles. The company’s television stations and interactive units teamed to ramp up the LA effort, which follows the debut last December of CBSN New York. Plans call for additional launches in other markets where CBS owns…

Saul Halpert, a legend in local Los Angeles broadcast news whose career spanned 40 years and included a stint hosting NBC4’s public affairs show NewsConference as well as teaching at USC has died. He was 93 and according to NBC4 had lived in an assisted facility. During his career, Halpert worked at KNXT (now KCBS)…

The returning Los Angeles Rams have pacted with KCBS-TV in a multiyear deal that taps the channel as “the Official Preseason Television Home of the Rams.” CBS 2 will offer the Southland market exclusive English-language telecasts of three Rams preseason games this summer: August 20 at home against Kansas City, August…

Tonight was local TV programming’s time to shine as the Television Academy handed out the 67th Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards. Among winners of multiple awards excluding cable sports programming, Spanish-language broadcast stations KMEX and KVEA commanded the most honors with 9 and 7 awards respectively…