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Article: The real McRee: our top story tonight: KABC's Lisa McRee goes unplugged.(TV newscaster)(Interview)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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In the ratings-crazed world of local TV news, Lisa McRee is the herald to hearken to. The onetime congressional sidekick has signed on for another six years at KABC, whose studio is a quick drive from her new Hancock Park fixer-upper (her fourth), which she shares with her husband (her first), Paramount exec Don Granger. While killing time between the six and eleven o'clock newscasts, she talked about lost toilets and her attempt to hire the world's most expensive carpenter.
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