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| Jerry Graham |
He would have turned 79 Tuesday.
Graham, a Santa Cruz resident
since 1995, put himself on the Bay Area map with his award-winning TV series
"Bay Area Backroads," which featured Northern
California 's hidden gems. KRON produced the series for 28 years.
Graham was born Gerald Granowsky in Indianapolis . He changed his name for
professional reasons at his first television job as a staff announcer for TV
stations in Evansville , Ind. ,
and Binghamton , N.Y.
Graham moved from Binghamton
to New York City ,
where he worked as a radio news writer for Metromedia's WNEW. After rising
through the ranks at the station, Graham bought and ran his own radio station,
WGRG, with partner David Gordon. He returned to WNEW in 1974 as general
manager, then hosted the TV show "Pacific Currents" on KPIX Channel
5. He also anchored weekend news for KRON and was general manager at radio
station KSAN.
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