Ed Arnold, who spent 60 years working in broadcasting at Los Angeles radio and TV stations together with KTLA and KABC, has died. He was 86.
Arnold suffered from coronary heart illness for a few years and died Thursday, in keeping with shut buddy Bob Tarlau.
Arnold attended Santa Ana Faculty after which California State College Lengthy Seaside, the place he earned his bachelor’s diploma in speech with a radio/TV/movie emphasis. He additionally was a member of the Santa Ana Dons 1961 Jap Convention Championship soccer group.
He labored at a number of radio stations in Los Angeles and Orange County earlier than becoming a member of KTLA within the late Nineteen Sixties as an announcer and later a sportscaster. He left the station in 1975, becoming a member of KABC’s Eyewitness Information group till 1986. He additionally served because the voice of public TV station KCET; was a sports activities persona for radio stations KRLA, KHTZ and KMPC; served as co-host and managing editor of PBS SoCal/KOCE-TV’s Actual Orange; and was an announcer for the internationally televised Hour of Energy non secular program. In 1986, he returned to KTLA, working on the station till 1999.
Arnold obtained many honors all through his profession, together with being inducted into the Santa Ana Faculty Corridor of Fame for Meritorious Service in 2009 and into the Vanguard College Corridor of Fame for Meritorious Service in 2011. He additionally served as president and chairman of the Santa Ana Faculty Basis and was a member of the Santa Ana Faculty Athletic Corridor of Fame government committee that raised cash to supply scholarships for pupil athletes. The SAC golf match was renamed the Ed Arnold Golf Traditional in 2003 in honor of the work that he did for the college’s athletics applications.
Arnold additionally served as emcee at varied occasions at Vanguard, the place his spouse of 63 years, Dixie, was chair of the Liberal Research division for a few years. The Arnolds even have their title on the Vanguard College Lyceum Theater, which was added in 2014.
Arnold additionally was common at occasions hosted by the Information Geezers, a bunch of largely retired Southern California broadcasting and information veterans, till his well being prevented him from attending.
Along with his spouse, survivors embrace his son, Dean, daughter-in-law Rachel and grandchildren Jacob and Luke.
Funeral preparations are pending.