Larry Kane

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Larry Kane on KYW-TV in 1995.

Larry Kane is an American journalist best known as the only American reporter whom The Beatles let travel with them on their 1964 North American tour. Kane authored a book about his experiences on the tour, "Ticket to Ride".

Kane began his career in broadcast journalism in Miami, Florida, first at WQAM and later at WAME and WFUN. While working at WAME, Kane became the first U.S. news correspondent to break the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. In 1966 he came to Philadelphia as an anchor for WFIL Radio and a general assignment reporter for its sister television station, which in 1970 would chnage it's calletters to WPVI.

In 1970 he was a part of the launch of the Action News format on WPVI, the ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, where he coined the phrase "Big Story" - something WPVI's Action News still uses to this day. He was also was an anchor on New Yorks WABC-TV's Eyewitness News from 1977 to 1978 for one year. He quit and returned to Philadelphia joining WCAU, the CBS then affiliate, where he was the primary anchor at 6PM and 11PM. In 1995 he moved to KYW, the new CBS affiliate station in Philadelphia, where he anchored the 6PM and 11PM newscasts until he retired on December 23 2002 to pursue his writing career and other interests in the field of communications.

Since his recent retirement, he has been serving as a broadcast and strategic consultant to private corporations and public media companies, as well as writing a book on his experiences on traveling with The Beatles. He is currently consulting doing work for Comcast.

Works

• Lennon Revealed (October, 2005) New York: Running Print Book Publishers. ISBN 0-762-42364-1
• Ticket to Ride (June, 2003) New York : Penguin Books. ISBN 0-762-41592-4
• Larry Kane's Philadelphia (2000) Philadelphia : Temple University Press. ISBN 1-566-39806-1

External links

• Official website