- Ken Bastida
Ken Bastida is a
California news anchor onCBS , Channel 5 (KPIX ). He has been a reporter with the station since 1990. Bastida began his career as a Bay Arearadio host in 1978. Since then he has held on air positions at Bay Area radio stations KFRC,KGO dn,KMEL ,K101 ,KFYI and KCBS radio. For a time Bastida even hosted his own landscaping show onHGTV . Ken holds a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts fromSan Francisco State University ...and was inducted into the University's Hall of Fame in May 2008.Bastida is the recipient of the 2004
Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside theMiddle East ."Blunders
In this [http://www.videoheaven.us/videos.aspx/video~bad_english/Bad_English/People_videos/ broadcast] , Bastida reads off an auto cue as he completely misses out a pause to make it sound like his co-host has been murdered and set on fire.
Awards
Public and industry awards
*1989
Peabody Award for coverage of theLoma Prieta Earthquake
*2004Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside theMiddle East ."
*2007Emmy Award for 5 o'clock news
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