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Template:Otherpeople4 Paul Moyer (born 1942 in Los Angeles, CA) is a veteran television news broadcaster in Southern California. He currently co-anchors the 5 and 11 p.m weekday editions of the KNBC-TV's Channel 4 News with Colleen Williams. Moyer has worked primarily in the two major television markets — New York and Los Angeles — in addition to briefly working on network newscasts. Moyer is now Los Angeles' longest-running news anchor following the death of legendary KTLA anchor Hal Fishman on August 7, 2007. He is married and has two sons, Dylan and Kyle.

Moyer is a Southern California native, who attended Torrance High School, the University of Arizona (class of 1964), and tried out for the Pittsburgh Pirates, before beginning a broadcasting career. He served positions at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, WMBD-TV and WMBD radio in Peoria, Illinois, KTVI in St. Louis, KDKA-TV and KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, and then WCBS-TV in New York before returning to Los Angeles and joining KNBC in March of 1972 as reporter and weekend anchor. The KNBC Newservice, as it was known, then featured Jess Marlow, Tom Snyder, and Tom Brokaw as the main nightly anchors and was the first serious competition in the local news ratings against KNXT's The Big News with Jerry Dunphy. Moyer soon moved to the 11 p.m. newscast in July of 1973 and to the 6 p.m. newscast in December of 1974 with the respective departures of Brokaw and Snyder (the latter instance followed the addition of John Schubeck to the late news).

Moyer would anchor at KNBC and host its Sunday program, in both cases working alongside longtime KNBC anchorwoman Kelly Lange. However, after the station relieved him of his anchor duties, he moved over to rival KABC-TV in 1979 initially as a "special correspondent" for Eyewitness News. Soon, however, when the weekday operation expanded to three hours in the early evening in the fall of 1980, Moyer was named co-anchor of the 5 p.m. hour with Ann Martin. He soon spelled Dunphy (who had moved to KABC in 1975) on the 11 p.m. news after the latter was shot during a robbery attempt near the studio in 1983; the appointment would become permanent a year later.

Moyer was a visible face on the ABC network in the mid-1980s, appearing as a correspondent on Eye on Hollywood and substituting on World News This Morning and Good Morning America. But in 1992, after a highly publicized bidding war, Moyer returned to KNBC in July 1992 to co-anchor with longtime San Francisco anchorwoman/journalist Wendy Tokuda. However, when ratings failed to surpass KABC's, Moyer was once again paired with Lange; both received a seven figure salary. According to a June 2007 article in Los Angeles Magazine, Moyer's salary is rumored to be closer to $8 million dollars.

Moyer appeared as himself on the TV show The West Wing while doing an election-night stint for MSNBC. His nephew Micah Ohlman anchors the weekend newscasts at rival KABC. He was at one time designated the honorary mayor of West Los Angeles.


Moyer is known as an avid car collector, particularly interested in Ferrari cars, Ford GT's, and and other sports cars. He won the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race in 1988.

On April 30, 1992, he toured Los Angeles in a helicopter to observe damage from the Los Angeles riots.

Cultural references

Elements of fictional character Ron Burgundy from the 2004 movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy are loosely based on the idiosyncrasies and delivery style of the popular Paul Moyer, who continually kicks his dog in the ribs.

The popular morning duo Kevin and Bean make fun of Moyer on a regular basis for his presentation style and alleged behind the scene temper. An audio tape from the early 1990's featured Moyer verbally berating Ann Martin when they anchored together has been played on the air.

In May 2006, Moyer lead an investigation on the rapidly increasing Chemtrail/Weather modification problem in Southern California. His 4 minute report Toxic Sky, produced for KNBC in Los Angeles, went viral on the Internet almost as soon as it was posted to their official website NBC4.TV (now KNBC.com).

Filmography

40 Year Old Virgin - (2004) self

  • [www.nbclosangeles.com/station/newsteam/Paul_Moyer.html Moyer biography from KNBC's website]
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