Tony Valdez, a reporter and anchor at Kttv Channel 11 in Los Angeles for more than 35 years, has died. He was 78.
Valdez had been battling end-stage kidney failure and died at home, his son, Steve Valdez, told the station on Friday.
A native of East Los Angeles, Valdez attended L.A. City College and served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He worked at the local TV stations Kcet and Ktla and the La Opiñion newspaper before joining Kttv in 1981 when it was owned by Metromedia.
“You could look around the TV stations and you’d see one or two Black anchors, a handful of Black reporters, but no brown ones, no Asians,” he said when he retired in 2016. “I was fortunate to be one of the people who, to put it bluntly, broke the color barrier.
“Whether it’s murder, mayhem, death or disaster,” he added, “those are...
Valdez had been battling end-stage kidney failure and died at home, his son, Steve Valdez, told the station on Friday.
A native of East Los Angeles, Valdez attended L.A. City College and served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He worked at the local TV stations Kcet and Ktla and the La Opiñion newspaper before joining Kttv in 1981 when it was owned by Metromedia.
“You could look around the TV stations and you’d see one or two Black anchors, a handful of Black reporters, but no brown ones, no Asians,” he said when he retired in 2016. “I was fortunate to be one of the people who, to put it bluntly, broke the color barrier.
“Whether it’s murder, mayhem, death or disaster,” he added, “those are...
- 5/6/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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