Mike Mangas
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Mike Mangas is a television news anchorman at KRCR-TV Channel 7 in Redding, California. He started at KRCR as an intern in 1975, then became a news reporter for 7R News in May of 1978 and then moved to the sports wing of the station and worked under Dave Andrade before becoming the sports director, a position he would hold for nearly 20 years. He worked for four news directors during his first stint with the station: Ian Evans, Carissa Howland, Cal Hunter and Gary Gunter.
In May of 2005, the always humble Mangas anchored his final sportscast using his weekly "Mangas Minute" segment to thank those that helped him in the business and the viewers for watching him over the years. A teary-eyed co-anchor Jennifer Scarborough looked on then presented him with a small token of the staff's appreciation for his 27 years of service to the station and the community. He would take a job as grant writer for the Mercy Foundation North and would later be replaced as sports director by Eric Naktin.
Months later, when Gary Gunter left KRCR to accept a news director job in El Paso, Texas, Mangas returned as the new lead male news anchor rejoining Scarborugh, who had been named the station's new news director.
Mangas is a member of the Shasta County Sports Hall Of Fame and has mentored such sports personalities as Jeff Roberts, Barry Carpenter, Rich Eisen (of NFL Network), Matt Madison, Mike Summers (now of Sainte Television Group in Chico), Derek Eggers, Pep Fernandez and Dave Owens. He also helped bring longtime rival and friend Royal Courtain to KRCR after Courtain was unceremoniously let go from KHSL-TV following 22 years as competitors. The two would work together for three years.
Mangas is married to wife Lindy and has three children Jake, Andy and Michaela and two grandsons, Michael and Joe. Michael James Mangas, his latest grandson, died from SIDS on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. He was only one year old. Jake is married to Janet Wise. She has a cousin named stephanie. She is very close with all of them.
