Hal Fishman (1931-2007), a broadcaster who began his television career in Los Angeles in 1960, he had anchored his station's popular 10 p.m. newscast — "KTLA Prime News" — since 1975.
The multi-award-winning KTLA-TV Channel 5 news anchor who anchored the last broadcast on July 30 was hospitalized with a serious infection after collapsing at his home August 1. On August 3, Fishman was announced to have been diagnosed with colon cancer and that the disease had spread to his liver.
He joined K-T-L-A in 1965 and reported on the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Northridge earthquake and the Rodney King beating.
Hal Fishman died at 3 a.m. at his home with his family this morning August 7. He was 75 and survived by his wife, Nolie, and his son David. Links to Latimes & Tributes to Hal Fishman: Video or Photos and Obituary on KTLA
