John Hambrick (born June 21, 1940, Conroe, Texas) is a seven time Emmy Award - winning newscaster, reporter, actor, and voice over announcer. Hambrick has worked in markets such as WNBC New York City, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, WTVJ and WCIX (now WFOR-TV) in Miami, as well as KRON-TV San Francisco.
On December 1965, with much local fanfare, a youthful Hambrick made his Cleveland, Ohio, television debut on ABC-TV affiliate WEWS-TV's Channel 5 Eyewi...
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John Hambrick (born June 21, 1940, Conroe, Texas) is a seven time Emmy Award - winning newscaster, reporter, actor, and voice over announcer. Hambrick has worked in markets such as WNBC New York City, KABC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, WTVJ and WCIX (now WFOR-TV) in Miami, as well as KRON-TV San Francisco.
On December 1965, with much local fanfare, a youthful Hambrick made his Cleveland, Ohio, television debut on ABC-TV affiliate WEWS-TV's Channel 5 Eyewitness News as co-presenter of the 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts with the late Dorothy Fuldheim. A full promotional advertisement was printed in the both Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland Press newspapers.
In 1972, Dave Patterson joined Hambrick as the 6 and 11 p.m. anchors, replacing Fuldheim; they would help station's news broadcast maintain the position as Cleveland's top television news program in the local Nielsen Ratings, to where it had risen during Hambrick's tenure. Hambrick then departed for San Francisco in 1975.
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