KABC Is First of 4 L.A. Stations to Reopen Sacramento Bureaus

The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as California’s governor has prompted four Los Angeles television stations to reopen their bureaus in Sacramento.

It has been about 20 years since any Los Angeles station had a permanent bureau in the state capital.

The first in place is Nannette Miranda, a former reporter at WFTS-TV in Tampa, Fla., who has been named Sacramento bureau chief for ABC-owned stations in California, and who already is reporting from there.

Miranda will file reports for KABC-TV Channel 7’s “Eyewitness News,” as well as sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KFSN-TV in Fresno.

Miranda, who recently has freelanced in California, is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area.

KNBC-TV Channel 4’s Conan Nolan will be the chief correspondent for that station’s new Sacramento bureau, which will open Jan. 1. Nolan already has filed numerous reports on Sacramento and Schwarzenegger.

“We are already there in Sacramento more than the governor is,” said KNBC News Director Bob Long.

In addition to working for KNBC, Nolan will file reports for sister stations KNTV-TV in San Francisco and KNSD-TV in San Diego.

Nancy Bauer Gonzales, news director for KCBS-TV Channel 2 and KCAL-TV Channel 9, announced that the sister stations also will open a Sacramento bureau Jan. 1, but have not yet designated a correspondent.