Ken Bastida
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Ken Bastida is a California news anchor on CBS, Channel 5 (KPIX). He has been a reporter with the station since 1990. Bastida began his career as a Bay Area radio host in 1978. Since then he has held on air positions at Bay Area radio stations KFRC, KGO, KMEL, K101, KFYI and KCBS radio. For a time Bastida even had his own gardening show on HGTV. Ken holds a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.
Bastida is the recipient of the 2004 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside the Middle East."
Bastida reached over 100,000 new viewers through a video that was posted on YouTube, which shows him slipping up by pronouncing his co-anchor murdered on air.[1]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Public and industry awards
- 1989 Peabody Award for coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake
- 2004 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside the Middle East."
- 2007 Emmy Award for 5 o'clock news
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