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Stan Chambers dies at 91; newsman had six-decade career at KTLA
When the story broke that a little girl was trapped in a well in San Marino, thousands of Angelenos snapped on their television sets. They kept them on for the next 27 hours.
The year was 1949 — decades before live coverage of car chases, hostage crises and other breaking news became commonplace.
“That was the first time anyone realized that television had this remarkable ability,” Stan Chambers, one of the two reporters on the scene for KTLA-TV Channel 5’s unusual broadcast, recalled years later of his role in TV news history. “It was then that I decided that I really wanted to be in news.”
Chambers, who stayed on the story through its heartbreaking ending to become one of the most enduring and recognizable faces in local television news, died Friday at his home in Holmby Hills, the station announced, without specifying the cause. He was 91.
Chambers’ more than six-decade career at KTLA spanned nearly the entire history of the pioneering Los Angeles TV station. When he retired in August 2010 — on his 87th birthd
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Stan Chambers (1923-2015) ‘Faith gives you the base’
Local broadcaster Stan Chambers,the 91-year-old native Angeleno, who attended St. Brendan School, Loyola High School and then-Loyola College (now Loyola Marymount University), died at his Holmby Hills home on Feb. 13.
The father of 11 children was never accused of a single on-air exaggeration or distortion during his 60-plus-year career. He explained his strict news ethics to former Tidings reporter and sports writer Rich Goul in March 1987. “I always hesitate before giving information that isn’t confirmed a couple of times,” he pointed out. “When you don’t know for certain, you just don’t use it. Rumors are difficult. I try to be as accurate as I can and check my sources before I go on [the air] with anything.
“The old guideline I have is ‘In doubt, don’t.’ The people want the facts, not your guesses.”
Chambers spent his whole broadcasting career, as a field reporter, news director and anchor, at KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles.
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Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers (August 11, 1923 – February 13, 2015) was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.
Chambers was born in Los Angeles. His career began shortly after KTLA became the first commercially licensed TV station in the western United States. He covered a number of local and national stories throughout his career. Chambers earned several Emmy Awards, Golden Mike Awards, LA City and County Proclamations, an LA Press Club Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He also made a few cameo appearances primarily in B-movies, usually playing a TV reporter, before his retirement in 2010.
Stan Chambers in The Hot War[]
On February 7, 1951, S
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