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Diaz leaves, Garcia steps in as 6 pm CBS2 anchor

September 12, 2011 by Veronica Villafañe

Last night was Laura Diaz’s last time on the air at KCBS-TV after 9 years with the station.  According to a station release, she left “to produce projects under her own banner.”

Laura had been a solo anchor of the weekday editions of CBS2 News at 6 p.m. since April 2010.  She joined KCBS in September of 2002 as lead anchor of the 11 pm weeknight newscast.  She has also produced and hosted a series of “Eye on Our Community” specials for the station.

Laura was previously lead anchor  for KABC-TV’s 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts, a job she held since 1997.

She’ll be replaced by Rick Garcia, who in addition to co-anchoring the weeknight editions of KCAL9 News at 8 and 10 p.m, will also pick up the CBS2 6 pm anchor duties.

Rick joined KCAL in April 2009 after 22 years at KTTV-11, where he was the sports anchor.

 

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: KCBS2, Laura Diaz, Rick Garcia

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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