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Dave Lopez

Reporter Dave Lopez retires after a 48-year career in news

July 2, 2020 by Veronica Villafañe

Los Angeles news fixture Dave Lopez retired this week after a 48-year reporting career, most of it at KCBS.

Lopez joined the CBS station in L.A. in 1977 – at the time KNXT – as a general assignment reporter, covering almost every major news event in Southern California during more than four decades with the station.

He has also reported for KCAL 9 since 2002, when CBS acquired the station.

Lopez signed off on June 30, but not before going down memory lane, during a 10 minute segment that included a tribute video spanning his career at the station.

Before joining CBS 2, Lopez was a general assignment reporter, weekend anchor and sports reporter at KFMB-TV in San Diego. He was previously a general assignment and sports reporter at KHJ-TV (now KCAL 9).

Lopez started his career as a sports writer at the Huntington Park Daily Signal newspaper, before moving to television news.

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Dave Lopez, KCBS

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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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