Dennis Richmond was an American news anchor who spent 40 years with Oakland, California-based KTVU.
15 Facts About Dennis Richmond
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Dennis Richmond served in the United States Army from 1961 to 1964 with the 82nd Airborne Division.
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Dennis Richmond attended Wayne State University in Detroit from 1965 to 1967.
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Dennis Richmond then attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1969 on a scholarship which he was offered while working at KTVU.
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Dennis Richmond co-anchored alongside Barbara Simpson from 1978 to 1986.
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Dennis Richmond's final show garnered 400,000 viewers, giving the newscast a 15.6 Nielsen rating and making him "more popular than Oprah".
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Dennis Richmond had one daughter from a previous relationship and two grandchildren.
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Dennis Richmond was a native of the area of Toledo, Ohio, and served in the United States Army for three years.
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Dennis Richmond gambled on driving to California where he had relatives; he later found employment with KTVU as a typist and never left.
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Dennis Richmond was a member of the board of directors of the Child Abuse Consortium, which is a California statewide government agency.
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Dennis Richmond served as the General Chairperson of the YMCA fundraising drive for Alameda County.
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Dennis Richmond was living in Grass Valley, California with his wife Deborah when he died on February 5,2025, at the age of 81.
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Dennis Richmond's wife told a member of KTVU that he suffered a heart attack and a fall weeks before.
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Dennis Richmond won several awards, including the Humanitarian Award of Oakland and the Black Media Coalition Journalist of the Year Award.
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Dennis Richmond received an Award of Distinction from Rossford High School, as a distinguished graduate.