KTLA anchor Hal Fishman dead at 75 – Los Angeles Times:

Hal Fishman, the multi-award-winning KTLA-TV Channel 5 news anchor who was a Los Angeles broadcasting fixture for nearly 50 years, died today, the station announced this morning. He was 75.

Fishman died at 3 a.m. at his home with his family, the station said. He was hospitalized with a serious infection after collapsing at his home Wednesday. On Friday, the station announced that he had been diagnosed with colon cancer and that the disease had spread to his liver.

A broadcaster who began his television career in Los Angeles in 1960, Fishman had anchored his station’s popular 10 p.m. newscast — ‘KTLA Prime News’ — since 1975.

Back when channel 5 was “LA’s Movie Station” I regularly watched Hal Fishman on the 10:00 news. He was the calm, reassuring voice that let you know things would work out–but you knew there was a fine journalistic mind behind those fish-eye lenses. RIP, Hal.