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'Televi Digest' host inspires others

During the 1950s and '60s, variety shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Lawrence Welk, Arthur Godfrey and others were among the most popular programs on television. During this time, "Televi Digest" was one of the longest-running and most popular shows in local television.


Former TV anchor now a Geezer

Some people age gracefully while others do not. The difference might lie in bringing a little more humor into our lives.


Rick Quan remains fond of Hawaii

For seven years, Quan was a familiar face on the local sports scene for KITV. Today, the Emmy award-winning anchor has his own successful production company in the San Francisco Bay area.


Isle radio vet BJ Sams retires after 56 years

On July 31, BJ Sams retired from broadcasting, ending 56 years of radio and television work. He's come a long way from his start as a radio station janitor working for 75 cents an hour at WBEJ in his hometown of Elizabethton, Tenn., to becoming a top-rated news anchor.


Isles 'still home' for McWilliams

Tom McWilliams moved from these islands some 30 years ago, but his memories and heart remain here, where he spent a dozen years working in both radio and television.


Emmy-winning anchor got TV break in Hawaii

During the 1970s there were a few women anchoring the national or local news, but being a female sportscaster was almost unheard of.


Colorado publisher once worked at KITV

Jacque Scott was a reporter and anchorwoman during some of our most turbulent times: Vietnam, the gas crisis and the Watergate years. From 1972 to 1977 she was a familiar face on KITV.


TV reporter retains fond memories of working in isles

Janet Zappala's first visit to the islands began as many do, with a vacation. That visit launched a television news career that took her to two of the nation's biggest television markets: Los Angeles and Philadelphia. She has earned television news Emmy Awards and Associated Press awards for her reporting.


Proctor covered sports history

When you have the opportunity to call some of the most historic moments in sports, you've made it in the business. From Cal Ripken's record-setting consecutive-game streak to Tony Gwynn's 3,000th hit, Mel Proctor has had a bird's-eye -- and courtside -- view of the action that most sports fans would love to experience.


Guanzon's life passion is being on air

When Paul Guanzon was a kid growing up in the heights in Wahiawa, his parents bought him a crystal radio set, setting him on a path to a career in radio and television that has lasted nearly 40 years.


Newsman thrived amid 'shenanigans'

Forty years ago this month, Don Picken was hired to run KHON News as anchorman and news director. It was a time when you could still see Don Ho at Duke's at the International Marketplace or Sterling Mossman at the Barefoot Bar at the old Colony Surf.


Pioneering KHON anchor stays active in communications

July 29, 1974, is a historic date in local television news -- it marks the first Honolulu newscast co-anchored by a woman of Asian descent. Barbara Tanabe had previously broken ground in local Seattle news, becoming one of the first Asian-American woman to anchor on the West Coast.


Weather forecaster blazed TV trail

Before Trini Kaopuiki and Malika Dudley started reporting on the weather on our airwaves, there was Marsha Fried on KHON. Fried, now Marsha Bohnett, came to Hawaii 40 years ago with her husband, a member of the Air National Guard. She was soon a familiar face on local television as the "weather girl" on the KHON Eyewitness news team.


‘Five-0’ at four-0

"Book 'em, Danno." It's been 40 years since we first heard those words uttered by Jack Lord as Steve McGarrett.