Ken Bastida is a California news anchor on CBS, Channel 5 (KPIX). California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. KPIX-TV (Channel 5 is the CBS Owned and operated Television station in San Francisco California. He has been a reporter with the station since 1990. Bastida began his career as a Bay Area radio host in 1978. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Since then he has held on air positions at Bay Area radio stations KFRC, KGO, KMEL, K101, KFYI and KCBS radio. KMEL (1061 FM is an Urban Contemporary - formatted radio station located in San Francisco, California, and owned by Clear Channel Communications 550 AM KFYI is an American news/talk radio station broadcasting in Phoenix Arizona. For a time Bastida even had his own gardening show on HGTV. A garden is a planned space usually outdoors set aside for the display cultivation and enjoyment of Plants and other forms of Nature. Home & Garden Television ( HGTV) is a cable TV network in the US that carries a variety of Home and Garden improvement maintenance Ken holds a degree in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University. San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University
Bastida is the recipient of the 2004 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside the Middle East. The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. "
Bastida reached over 100,000 new viewers through a video that was posted on YouTube, which shows him slipping up by pronouncing his co-anchor murdered on air. [1]
Awards
Public and industry awards
- 1989 Peabody Award for coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake
- 2004 Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in "continuing coverage" for his series "Inside the Middle East. The George Foster Peabody Awards, better known as simply the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards for excellence in Radio and Television broadcasting The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Quake, was a major Earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. "
- 2007 Emmy Award for 5 o'clock news
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