Television
KCAL-TV Channel 9 news anchor Jerry Dunphy, whose trademark line “From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California” has been a fixture of local TV news for more than four decades, remained hospitalized Thursday after suffering a heart attack.
May 17, 2002
Jerry Dunphy, anchor of KABC-TV’s “Eyewitness News,” has turned down a “multimillion-dollar” contract offer to stay at the station and instead will join Disney-owned KHJ/TV Channel 9 as chief anchor of a new three-hour prime-time newscast being developed for debut in January.
July 8, 1989
Dunphy’s Done It: Veteran newscaster Jerry Dunphy will receive the 1993 Los Angeles Area Governors Emmy Award from the board of governors of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), Leo Chaloukian, the group’s president, announced.
April 19, 1993
Veteran television anchorman Jerry Dunphy has left KCAL-TV Channel 9 to return to his old stamping grounds at KCBS-TV Channel 2, where he will co-anchor the 5 p.m. newscast starting next month.
Jan. 5, 1995
TV* Colleagues recall the man they called the dean of broadcast journalism. A news anchor at KCAL, he died this week at age 80.
May 25, 2002
Jerry Dunphy. George Fischbeck.
Feb. 1, 1995
Television newscaster Jerry Dunphy took the stand Monday as the first witness in the trial of three men accused of shooting him in 1983 as he sat with a friend in his car near KABC-TV’s studios in Hollywood.
May 14, 1985
Heartsounds: Jerry Dunphy is scheduled to have non-emergency heart-bypass surgery today and will be out of his news anchor chair at KCAL Channel 9 for about a month, a station spokeswoman said.
Jan. 20, 1992
Jerry Dunphy, one of the most recognizable and popular news anchors in Los Angeles for more than four decades with his trademark line, “From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California,” has died.
May 21, 2002
Veteran KABC-TV Channel 7 anchor Tawny Little will move to KCAL-TV Channel 9 to rejoin her former colleague Jerry Dunphy on the 10 p.m. newscast beginning in early April.
March 14, 1992