Talk:Larry Mendte

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Larry Mendte is the best anchor in Philadelphia. I watch him almost every night.

I agree. I know him personally and he is a great guy in person; no ego or anything.

[edit] Larry Mendte in San Diego

"For a short time during his stint in San Diego, Mendte also performed as a stand-up comedian in both San Diego and Los Angeles. He also wrote and produced a humorous feature called "How Come?" that ran nationally on the syndicated show Hard Copy.


Larry Mendte on WABC's Eyewitness News in 1985From 1984 to 1988 he was a weekend anchor on WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. He has also anchored the news and was an investigative reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago from 1991 to 1995. While at WBBM, Mendte's series of reports on school bus safety resulted in a new state law. Mendte also anchored the news at KFMB-TV in San Diego and WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio."

Ouch, this exchange makes my head hurt! Larry Mendte was NOT an anchor in San Diego, he did the weather. Previously, KFMB TV 8 had limited weather coverage, so it was the idea of the News Director (Jim Holtzman, I believe), to have the weather presented in a commical way, since San Diego has so many fair weather days (sorry, I don't have notation for this but it was reported several times in the San Diego Union). Larry would basically do a stand-up routine with the weather.

But people still did not seem to like this, because, as it turns out, San Diego does get weather every now and then, and in the early 90's (1991?), Mendte and KFMB had a mutual parting, and he was replacedby Loren Nancarrow.