{"id":2202,"date":"2010-08-24T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2010-08-24T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:29:37","slug":"rip-dave-mcelhatton-san-francisco-news-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Dave McElhatton, San Francisco news anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2010\/kpix-DaveMcElhatton-LL.jpg\" alt=\"Dave McElhatton and LOUIE LOUIE\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, we lost <strong>Dave McElhatton<\/strong>, a news anchorman for KPIX Channel 5, the San Francisco CBS affiliate.   I never met the man, but I&#8217;d heard a lot of stories about about a decent human being he was.  Dave retired from broadcasting in 2000 after nearly 50 years on the airwaves at KCBS radio and KPIX television.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll say one thing about the guy:  He knew about the important stories.  Here&#8217;s a still image from a VHS tape of the news coverage of the infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=324\">KFJC LOUIE LOUIE Marathon of 1983<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to miss you, Dave.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about his career by visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/local\/dave.mcelhatton.longtime.2.1874149.html\">CBS5.com website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, we lost Dave McElhatton, a news anchorman for KPIX Channel 5, the San Francisco CBS affiliate. I never met the man, but I&#8217;d heard a lot of stories about about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,22,30,19,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kfjc","category-louie-universe","category-obituaries","category-radio","category-san-francisco-bay-area","category-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}