Article: After 40 years, local TV icon Richmond signs off

There is no question that Dennis Richmond -- solid, poised, stylish, professional, muscular Dennis -- is the Bay Area's Walter Cronkite.

FROM OUR BLOGS --TV FREAK: An emotional day for Richmond -- UNSCRIPTED: KTVU Announces Dennis Richmond's Retirement

Richmond has been KTVU's news anchor since 1976. Thirty-two years as an anchor at one station is virtually unheard of in the disposable world of television, which drops anchors as often as sea captains.

Only Dave McElhatton, who put in 23 years as KPIX's anchor, has come close to matching Richmond's staying power in this area. And only Uncle Walter comes to mind on

a national scale, though his CBS run lasted 20 years.

Richmond, 64, who's ...

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