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Fred Van Amburg

"Van Amburg is the finest. I mean the finest broadcast journalist I have ever had the pleasure to work with." High praise indeed, when you consider these words are coming from Van's former boss, Pat Pollilo, former KGO-TV News Director. It is praise well earned. The diversity of Van's background speaks for itself; having included everything from field reporting to sports play-by-play to documentaries to the anchor position on more than one Bay Area news team.

Van is a long-time resident of the Bay Area and came to KGO-TV in 1969. He began his career as the right-hand man for H.B. Kaltenborn doing radio broadcasts and shortly thereafter, the play-by-play commentary for the Oakland Raiders. He has twice been honored with Peabody Awards, once for his commentary with the Raiders and once for a local television documentary.

He reached the number one position in viewer popularity as anchorman on and later duplicated that feat by having the most listened-to radio talk show on one of the Bay Area's major radio stations, that program being number one in listener popularity for more than two years.

Van Amburg

Van Amburg

Van Amburg

Van Amburg


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