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New anchor for KCBS

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Channel 2 is bringing in a 20-year veteran of the NBC station in Minneapolis, Paul Magers, to take over some anchor duties from Harold Greene. Magers is the long-reigning ratings king there, says the Star-Tribune. (Tip to commenter Hanna in the Brian Lowry post down below, with some analysis from Mike). RonFineman.com also has the news, behind the pay wall.

Fineman ran an amusing and fairly embarrassing item Monday on Channel 7 reporter Jovana Lara, who mispronounced the name of ubiquitous USC professor Erwin Chemerinsky as Chair a minsky, called him a U.S. professor of Law and later in her story on actors who move into politics said that Ronald Reagan was perhaps the most successful. Who are the other candidates?

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Posted by: incidentally at August 19, 2003 05:48 AM

Martin Sheen, for one...

Posted by: Steve Smith at August 19, 2003 09:00 AM

Actors turned politicians:

Fred Thompson (various film and television including "Law and Order"; former U.S. Senate)

Fred Grandy (Gopher on TV series "The Love Boat"; former U.S House of Representatives)

Ben Jones (Cooter on TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard"; former U.S. House of Representatives)

Clint Eastwood (various film; former Mayor of Carmel)

Alan Autry (Bubba on TV series "In the Heat of the night; current Mayor of Fresno)

Sonny Bono (various film and television; former U.S. House of representatives)

and, in the International Division, who could forget...

Ilona Staller aka Cicciolina (various hardcore films; former member of Parliament in Italy)

Posted by: Mark at August 19, 2003 09:23 AM

The list goes on too, but none came close to being president for two terms.

Posted by: Kevin Roderick at August 19, 2003 10:39 AM

But Clint was a more successful actor.

Posted by: ManWithNoName at August 19, 2003 02:21 PM

1. Mangers is OLD. Who needs more conservative older folks on L.A. tv news?

2. You must be a paying 7-day-a-week LA Times subscriber or else pay 'em $39.95 online to look at anything in their Calendar.
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Posted by: Rotini at March 13, 2004 08:05 AM

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