{"id":459636,"date":"2010-03-22T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a963d671970b"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:26:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:26:29","slug":"another-veteran-l-a-broadcaster-to-leave-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459636","title":{"rendered":"Another veteran L.A. broadcaster to leave the airwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"><object width=\"600\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7tjOMm9xOOA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7tjOMm9xOOA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles&nbsp;is losing another veteran local TV personality. <\/p>\n<p>Johnny Mountain, the veteran weatherman with one of the most recognizable faces &#8212; and names &#8212; in local TV news, is retiring from KCBS-TV Channel 2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mountain is the latest longtime TV news figure to depart the scene amid budget cuts and downsizing at local TV news operations. Paul Moyer, Harold Greene, John Beard and Ann Martin have also left the local airwaves in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of Mountain, 65, ends his 32-year stint in local television, according to The Times&#8217; Greg Braxton. He had spent 27 years at KABC-TV Channel 7 before joining KCBS in May 2005. &#8220;I have been blessed to have had such a wonderful run on Los Angeles television,&#8221; Mountain said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-kcbs22-2010mar22,0,6566346.story\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/big_day_for_newsroom_carn.php\">here.<\/a>&nbsp;Mark Lacter took a big-picture look at the future of local news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/article.aspx?id=22949\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Video: A blooper is caught on tape during one of Johnny Mountain&#8217;s forecasts at KABC-TV Channel 7.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles&nbsp;is losing another veteran local TV personality. Johnny Mountain, the veteran weatherman with one of the most recognizable faces &#8212; and names &#8212; in local TV news, is retiring from KCBS-TV Channel 2.&nbsp; Mountain is the latest longtime TV news figure to depart the scene amid budget cuts and downsizing at local TV news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}