Stan Bohrman; Award-Winning Newsman on Radio and Television
Stan Bohrman, a radio and TV newsman in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other major markets who won Emmys for his newscasts and accolades for his presentation of guests opposing the Vietnam War, has died.
His son, David, a producer of specials coverage for NBC-TV, said his father was 63 when he died Thursday of cancer at Tarzana Medical Center.
Raised in Los Angeles, Bohrman worked for the Voice of America in New York and KNX radio in Los Angeles, and appeared as an anchorman in the film “The China Syndrome.”
In the 1960s he had hosted a daytime talk show, “Tempo II,” on KHJ-TV. It was there that he and his co-hosts, Regis Philbin and Maria Cole, widow of Nat (King) Cole, featured celebrity guests, among them anti-war spokesmen in an era when dissent was not popular.
Later in his career, Bohrman returned to radio broadcasting and producing. He retired in 1990, after working at KFWB in Los Angeles.
His awards included local Emmys in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a duPont award for investigative reporting in Philadelphia.
Besides his son, he is survived by his wife, Del, a TV writer, two daughters and two grandchildren.
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